Supermarket facial recognition failure—why automated systems must put the human factor first
The incident of a woman misidentified by facial recognition technology at a Rotorua supermarket should have come as no surprise.
Apr 22, 2024
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Face recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on physical features
American Amara Majeed was accused of terrorism by the Sri Lankan police in 2019. Robert Williams was arrested outside his house in Detroit and detained in jail for 18 hours for allegedly stealing watches in 2020. Randal Reid ...
Jan 20, 2024
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Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US
The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users personal information across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by ...
May 22, 2023
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Intelligence agencies have used AI since the cold war—but now face new security challenges
Recent publicity around the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has led to a great deal of public concern about its growth and potential. Italy recently banned the latest version, citing concerns about privacy because ...
May 4, 2023
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Controversy in France over AI-assisted Olympics surveillance
French government plans to trial surveillance cameras upgraded with artificial intelligence at the 2024 Paris Olympics have opponents fuming at what they say is unnecessary and dangerous security overreach.
Mar 23, 2023
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Not Big Brother, but close: A surveillance expert explains some of the ways we're all being watched, all the time
A group of researchers studied 15 months of human mobility movement data taken from 1.5 million people and concluded that just four points in space and time were sufficient to identify 95% of them, even when the data weren't ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Internet
Facebook, Instagram release report on efforts to protect rights
Social media giant Meta, whose platforms including Facebook and Instagram regularly face concerns over their impact on civil liberties and democracy, on Thursday released its first annual report on its efforts to protect ...
Jul 14, 2022
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Post Roe, women in America are right to be concerned about digital surveillance. And it's not just period-tracking apps
The reversal of Roe v. Wade by the American Supreme court last week is a watershed moment in American politics. The ruling withdraws constitutional protections for abortion rights and sends the issue to the states, around ...
Jun 28, 2022
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Security tool guarantees privacy in surveillance footage
Surveillance cameras have an identity problem, fueled by an inherent tension between utility and privacy. As these powerful little devices have cropped up seemingly everywhere, the use of machine learning tools has automated ...
Mar 28, 2022
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China's 'surveillance creep': Big data COVID monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic
China has used big data to trace and control the outbreak of COVID-19. This has involved a significant endeavor to build new technologies and expand its already extensive surveillance infrastructure across the country.
Aug 31, 2021
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