The Chinese government has collected tens of thousands of “voice pattern” samples from targeted citizens and is inputting them into a national voice biometric database, according to a Human Rights Watch report published Monday. The idea is that an automated system, thought to still be in development, will use the database to pick out individual …
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A Florida sheriff's office deployed a futuristic algorithm that uses crime data to predict who is likely to commit another crime. In a sweeping six-month investigation published this week, The Tampa Bay Times found that the algorithm relies on questionable data and arbitrary decisions, and leads to the serial harassment of people without any evidence of specific …
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Police increasingly ask Google and other tech firms for data about who was where, when. Two judges ruled the investigative tool invalid in a Chicago case. IN 2018, 23-YEAR-OLD Jorge Molina was arrested and jailed for six days on suspicion of killing another man. Police in Avondale, Arizona, about 20 miles from Phoenix, held Molina …
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Singapore implements the use of drones to enforce social distancing measuresSource: Singapore drones to enforce social distancing TEL AVIV/SINGAPORE, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Beware, Singaporeans standing too close, automated drones might be keeping an eye on you from above. Singapore's police have been trialling two pilotless drones developed by Israel's Airobotics to help enforce social …
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The devices will track wearers' movements, and any attempt to leave home will trigger an alert to the authorities Coronavirus is changing the world in unprecedented ways. Subscribe here for a daily briefing on how this global crisis is affecting cities, technology, approaches to climate change, and the lives of vulnerable people. SINGAPORE, Aug 3 …
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The mysterious case of mass drone incursions over America's most powerful nuclear power plant that only resulted in more questions and no changes.Source: The Night A Drone Swarm Descended On Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant - The Drive
On Wednesday, Peacock premieres an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 science fiction novel. The world the book anticipated — designer drugs, casual sex, near-instant gratification — is already here. Source: ‘Brave New World’ Arrives in the Future It Predicted - The New York Times
Police collected DNA samples from them and searched their homes -- both rare occurrences, if ever, in more than a year of pro-democracy demonstrations in the territory, according to Janet Pang, a lawyer for several of the protesters.Over the past 12 months, the protests have at times paralyzed the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. Hundreds of people …
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A strange vessel seen off Florida looks like a SHARC, a stealthy experimental spy craft developed by the U.S. Navy. Or it might be Russian.Source: Mystery Unmanned Craft Seen Off Florida May Be Secret SHARC Spy Vessel
Kashgar demonstrates the most sophisticated use of surveillance technology for minority repression in the world today.Source: In Xinjiang, Kashgar’s transformation into a totalitarian surveillance city should be a warning to us all - The Washington Post
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