Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Google Starts Drone Deliveries in Christiansburg, Virginia
October 18th, 2019Via: VentureBeat: As of this afternoon, select residents of Christiansburg, Virginia can tap drones operated by Google parent company Alphabet’s Wing for quick and fee-free deliveries of packages, over-the-counter medications, snacks, and gifts. The company today revealed that it’s become the first to operate a commercial air delivery service directly to homes in the U.S., […]
SpaceX Submits Paperwork for 30,000 More Starlink Satellites
October 16th, 201942,000 satellites in low Earth orbit… Is anyone besides me wondering if there is some other purpose here besides fast Internet access? Via: SpaceNews: SpaceX has asked the International Telecommunication Union to arrange spectrum for 30,000 additional Starlink satellites. SpaceX, which is already planning the world’s largest low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation by far, filed paperwork in […]
Google’s New Voice Recorder App Transcribes in Real Time, Even When Offline
October 16th, 2019Via: TechCrunch: At Google’s hardware event this morning, the company introduced a new voice recorder app for Android devices, which will tap into advances in real-time speech processing, speech recognition and AI to automatically transcribe recordings in real time as the person is speaking. The improvements will allow users to take better advantage of the […]
Firefox Privacy – The Complete How-To Guide
October 15th, 2019Via: Restore Privacy: Mozilla Firefox is arguably the best browser available that combines strong privacy protection features, good security, active development, and regular updates. The newest version of Firefox is fast, light-weight, and packed full of privacy and security features. It is for this reason that I consider Firefox to be the best all-around browser […]
“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 […]
