a collection of articles exploring (possible) dystopian possibilities of City-wide surveillance cameras, AI and Privacy (internet)
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr...
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business
What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? Machine learning is helping CCTV cameras to analyze what we do in real time, creating a ...
The smart city is moving beyond cameras and microphones to stranger surveillance tools.
Will 1,500 Street Cameras Be a Wet Blanket in New Orleans? Residents wonder whether the city’s freewheeling appeal will suffer if bars, clubs an...
Next year, students as young as 4 or 5 years old who attend public school in Western New York’s Lockport School District could be subject to survei...
Drones could tell when people are tired and lower a coffee on an "unspooling string", IBM suggests.
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.
More than two dozen civil rights organizations asked the tech giant to stop selling its image recognition system to law enforcement agencies...
Soon, Saint Louis University students won’t be able to avoid Amazon’s near ubiquitous smart speakers. The university announced this week a plan to ...
Airport officials rolled out the system expecting to increase security and decrease boarding times.
A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there.
It takes a photograph of your license plate.
Opinion: Digital identification systems are meant to aid the marginalized. Actually, they're ripe for abuse.
Miami facial recognition company Kairos replaces Brian Brackeen as CEO
Tech moguls see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not.
Facial recognition researchers are sweeping up photos by the millions from social media and categorizing them by age, gender, skin tone and dozens ...
Civil Rights, Criminal Justice and Homeland Security
What we found shows the technology’s promise — and perils.
AI can flag people based on their clothing or behavior, identify people's emotions, and find people who are acting "unusual."
Banjo is applying artificial intelligence to government-owned surveillance and traffic cameras across the entire state of Utah to tell police about...
The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you.
An unregulated facial recognition app can probably tell the police your name, and help them find out where you live and who your friends are.
Researchers are crawling the internet for photos of people wearing face masks to improve facial recognition algorithms.
Contact tracing is working in South Korea and Singapore. But it raises privacy issues. Our cellphones and smartphones have several means of logg...
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