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Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
Clearview AI has stoked controversy by scraping the web for photos and applying facial recognition to give police and others…
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The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools
New York City police bought a range of surveillance tools—including facial-recognition software, predictive policing software, vans equipped with x-ray machines…
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As the Use of AI Spreads, Congress Looks to Rein It In
There’s bipartisan agreement in Washington that the US government should do more to support development of artificial intelligence technology. The…
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Baltimore May Soon Ban Facial Recognition for Everyone but Cops
After years of failed attempts to curb surveillance technologies, Baltimore is close to enacting one of the nation’s most stringent…
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The All-Seeing Eyes of New York’s 15,000 Surveillance Cameras
A new video from human rights organization Amnesty International maps the locations of more than 15,000 cameras used by the…
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A Border Town Confronts the Reality of Police Surveillance
The council approved a measure that asks the Human Relations Commission to review the license plate program quarterly. Medina said…
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How Face Recognition Can Destroy Anonymity
Stepping out in public used to make a person largely anonymous. Unless you met someone you knew, nobody would know…
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Researchers Blur Faces That Launched a Thousand Algorithms
In 2012, artificial intelligence researchers engineered a big leap in computer vision thanks, in part, to an unusually large set…
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The Next Target for a Facial Recognition Ban? New York
Civil rights activists have successfully pushed for bans on police use of facial recognition in cities like Oakland, San Francisco,…
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