Jan 13
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Today in terrible ideas: an AI system that claims to be able to accurately predict your political affiliation…
Jan 10
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Clearview AI’s controversial facial-recognition app has seen a spike in use as police track down the pro-Trump…
Jan 6
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Intel announced today that it will make its RealSense 3D cameras available for customers hoping to utilize the tech…
Nov 17
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The Los Angeles Police Department issued a moratorium on the use of commercial facial recognition software on…
Nov 3
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At an otherwise peaceful protest in Washington, D.C. this past June, one attendee is alleged to have punched an…
Sep 10
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Portland, Oregon, might be best known as the home of bohemian stereotypes aplenty and some of the wildest donuts you…
Aug 14
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In a pairing that has all the makings of a privacy and/or human rights nightmare waiting to happen, the dystopian…
Aug 11
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Ever since Major League Baseball started its shortened season in July, the sport has been besieged by coronavirus…
Aug 4
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Following months of deliberation and delays, the city of Portland in Southern Maine became the thirteenth city to…
Aug 3
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In 2020, it’s worth assuming that every status update and selfie you upload online can eventually make its way into…
Jul 28
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Rite Aid used face recognition to scan the faces of every single customer who walked into hundreds of its stores in…
Jul 10
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For more than a year, people opposed to giving police access to face recognition technology have pointed to criminal…
Jul 6
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Dystopian, U.S.-based face recognition firm Clearview AI has suspended its contract with the Royal Canadian Mounted…
Jun 29
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During a public meeting on Monday, Detroit Police Chief James Craig estimated the facial recognition technology used…
Jun 25
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There’s a buffet of things to be scared shitless about these days, but for those who have sampled even a taste of…
Jun 24
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It’s official, as of today, Boston’s become the second-largest US community to ban police use of facial recognition…
Jun 17
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Last week, Amazon made a terse announcement that it would institute a “one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon’s…
Jun 10
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For the second time in a week, Amazon is trying to score PR brownie points for doing next to nothing in the wake of…
May 23
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The U.S. Commerce Department has put another 33 Chinese businesses—many of which develop artificial intelligence and…
Mar 11
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Shortly after one of the worst riots New Delhi has seen in decades, law enforcement agencies in India used facial…