Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
“The Digital Poorhouse”
October 15th, 2019Via: Guardian: The Guardian has spent the past three months investigating how billions are being poured into AI innovations that are explosively recasting how low-income people interact with the state. Together, our reporters in the US, Britain, India and Australia have explored what amounts to the birth of the digital welfare state. Their dispatches reveal […]
Facebook Wants Non Invasive Brain Computer Interface, Will Avoid Regulatory Scrutiny
October 14th, 2019Via: Observer: At a recent internal employee Q&A session, the Facebook CEO hinted that such technology could see promising use cases in Facebook’s future augmented reality and virtual reality products. “Brain-computer interface is an exciting idea,” Zuckerberg told employees, according to a meeting transcript leaked earlier this month. “The field quickly branches into two approaches: […]
China’s New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide
October 14th, 2019Via: China Law Blog: The Chinese government has been working for several years on a comprehensive Internet security/surveillance program. This program is based on the Cybersecurity Law adopted on 2016. The plan is vast and includes a number of subsidiary laws and regulations. On December 1, 2018, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced it […]
The Biggest Lie Tech People Tell Themselves – And The Rest Of Us
October 9th, 2019Via: Vox: Imagine you’re taking an online business class — the kind where you watch video lectures and then answer questions at the end. But this isn’t a normal class, and you’re not just watching the lectures: They’re watching you back. Every time the facial recognition system decides that you look bored, distracted, or tuned […]
JFK Airport’s Terminal 1 Launches Facial Recognition Boarding
October 8th, 2019Via: New York Times: A biometric self-boarding gate has officially been launched at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 1, officials said Tuesday. Lufthansa has deployed the paperless, high-tech boarding process – which uses facial recognition technology to verify travelers with a photo capture — at its largest US gateway at the Queens airport. Air […]
Woman Pushed Emergency Alert Button On Police Robot, It Told Her To Step Out Of The Way
October 4th, 2019An absolute classic. Via: NBC: When a fight broke out recently in the parking lot of Salt Lake Park, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, Cogo Guebara did what seemed the most practical thing at the time: she ran over to the park’s police robot to push its emergency alert button. “I was […]
China: Face Scan Required to Use Internet
October 3rd, 2019Via: Daily Mail: China has stepped up its internet censorship by demanding its citizens pass a facial-recognition test to be able to use web services. People who want to have the internet installed at home or on their phones must have their faces scanned by the Chinese authority to prove their identities, according to a […]
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Biology: “Something That Can Be Digitally Manipulated”
October 2nd, 2019It’s easy to laugh at the barking insanity of these monsters, but at the same time, you probably know someone who spent their hard earned money to buy a “smart speaker” surveillance platform for their home. Via: CNBC: Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren’t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley’s richest executives, they’re also a […]
Gait Analysis (and Correlation to Video) of Individuals Possible Through Wi-Fi
October 2nd, 2019This is very bad. Via: TechXplore: Researchers in the lab of UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi have enabled, for the first time, determining whether the person behind a wall is the same individual who appears in given video footage, using only a pair of WiFi transceivers outside. This novel video-WiFi cross-modal gait-based person identification […]
Amazon’s Dystopian Plan To Be Anywhere And Everywhere
September 30th, 2019Via: The Week: When most tech companies host a launch event, it is to unveil one or two major products. Not Amazon. For the past couple of years at its launch events, the company has bombarded tech watchers with a torrent of new products. And so it wasn’t all that surprising when it announced a […]
