“In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch.”
Read: IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
“In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch.”
Read: IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
“Facial recognition is becoming part of the fabric of everyday life. You might already use it to log in to your phone or computer, or authenticate payments with your bank.”
Read: The tech industry doesn’t have a plan for dealing with bias in facial recognition
“Tech companies are beginning to accept that the artificial intelligence they’re building their futures on could be flawed.”
Read: Tech companies just woke up to a big problem with their AI
“The New York Police Department has quietly expanded its gang database under Mayor Bill de Blasio, targeting tens of thousands of young people of color for increased surveillance even in the absence of criminal conduct.”
Read: New York Gang Database Expanded by 70 Percent Under Mayor Bill de Blasio
“The FRVT does that by leaning on the federal contracting process, but for anyone outside of that world (Amazon, Apple, Google, etc.), it’s still basically the wild west. But unlike a lot of issues in the tech industry, this is really not a hard problem to solve.”
“Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read: Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system
“Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read: Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system
“The more technology advances, the clearer it becomes that our smartphones are no longer about conversing but more about transfers of information.”
“The AI-assisted face-swapping technology known as deepfakes has not gone unnoticed by Hollywood, and now union SAG-AFTRA is working to “fight back” by opening up new legislative avenues.”