Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Cuba Removing Cash from Economy
August 21st, 2023Via: Reuters: When Cuba in early August announced it was taking a major step towards electronic banking and a “cashless” society, the offices of fledgling small businesses across the communist-run country were left scrambling to figure out how to respond. Most alarming to many budding entrepreneurs was a new 5,000 peso ($20) daily cap on […]
“Lawful But Not Awful” X CEO Linda Yaccarino Unveils New Orwellian ‘X’ Content Moderation Contrary to Elon Musk’s Own Remarks
August 12th, 2023Have you guys figured that it's a big game of good cop (Elon who "loves" free speech) and bad cop (Linda who wants to censor based on vague terms) to keep the frogs in the pot just long enough that people don't notice that they are turning it into American WeChat? https://t.co/9K04PEURVG — Whitney Webb […]
Zoom Can Use Customer-Generated Content to Train AI Models
August 7th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Zoom has added a clause to its Terms-of-Service (TOS) which allows the video conferencing company to use customer-generated content for any purpose they see fit, including to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, with no opt-out.
Will Browsers Be Required By Law To Stop You From Visiting Infringing Sites?
August 5th, 2023Via: TechDirt: Mozilla’s Open Policy & Advocacy blog has news about a worrying proposal from the French government: In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser […]
Eurostar Rolls Out ‘SmartCheck’ Facial Biometric Check-In System
July 31st, 2023Via: iProov:
Say Goodbye to Permissionless Travel
July 31st, 2023Via: Reason: Once upon a time, citizens of the United States could travel to almost every country in the European Union for 90 days without asking any government for permission beyond showing a passport at the initial point of entry. It was—and still is, for a few waning months—a marvelous if underacknowledged achievement for liberty. […]
Worldcoin Isn’t as Bad as it Sounds: It’s Worse
July 28th, 2023One person is willing to sell their soul every 8 seconds for a shitcoin and a cattle tag. Extreme clown world alert. https://t.co/RZeJYANCAV — Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) July 26, 2023 Via: Blockworks: Worldcoin — a new financial system connected to sensitive biometric information, mostly harvested from poor people — sure sounds like a terrible idea. […]
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Launches ‘WorldCoin’ Token To Distinguish Humans From Bots
July 24th, 2023I like Melissa’s response to this: Waiting for the coin with the nipple scan, personally. — Truthstream Media (@truthstreamnews) July 24, 2023 Via: ZeroHedge: Last week we presciently discussed the somewhat dystopian outlook for an iris-scanning ‘World ID’ project to identify every human online: “Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will […]
Japan To Deploy Pre-Crime Style “Behavior Detection” Technology
July 19th, 2023Via: Reclaim the Net: The use of AI in law enforcement is becoming commonplace globally. A 2019 study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed that 52 out of the 176 nations surveyed were incorporating AI tools into their policing strategies, Nikkei Asia reported. … The National Police Agency plans to carry out tests […]
“This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal”
July 18th, 2023Via: Forbes: Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement, digging through license plate databases with billions of records. … “You’ve seen the systems totally metastasize to the point that the capabilities of a local police department would really shock most people.” … “The scale of this kind of surveillance is […]
