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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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Amazon Extends Moratorium on Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
Photo: PHILIPPE LOPEZ / Contributor (Getty Images) Law enforcement officials are still banned from using Amazon’s facial recognition technology “until…
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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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New York Returns Its Police ‘Robodog’ After a Public Outcry
The New York Police Department said Thursday it will stop using the “Digidog,” a four-legged robot occasionally deployed for recon…
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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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Dallas Cops Used Face Recognition Installed on Personal Phones
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Dallas police officers used unauthorized facial recognition software to conduct between 500 and 1,000 searches…
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Clearview AI Was Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies
Photo: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP (Getty Images) A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy…
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How Facial Expressions Could Make Apple’s FaceID More Secure
Securing a device using your face is much easier than remembering a PIN or password, but the technology is not…
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Ulysses Group Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time
Photo: HENNING KAISER/DPA/AFP (Getty Images) A defense contractor that claims to have access to motor vehicle location data on a…
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The Best Home Security Cameras in 2021
Cameras aren’t just useful for finding intruders; they can help us keep an eye on the kids during work or…
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