Amazon Facial Recognition Confuses Members of Congress with Criminals
"Only 20 percent of the members of Congress are racial minorities. But 39 percent of the members of Congress who were mistaken for criminals were racial minorities."
Facial Recognition Toll Booths Identify Drivers And Passengers, Notify Police In Seconds
"Roughly one in every two American adults—117 million people—are in the facial recognition networks used by law enforcement, according to a 2016 report."
Canada is using ancestry DNA websites to help it deport people
"In another example of the extraordinary lengths Canadian immigration officials go to deport migrants, the Canada Border Services Agency has been collecting their DNA and using ancestry websites to find and contact their distant relatives and establish their nationality."
What An American Should Do If You’re Put On The U.S. Government’s Kill List
"It’s not a stretch to say that it’s one of the most important lawsuits to ever cross the desk of a federal judge. The core of the Bill of Rights is in play, and a wrong result could formalize a slide into authoritarianism that began long ago, but accelerated after 9/11."
How your data is used by police, and where it goes wrong
"For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film 'Minority Report,' this will sound like life catching up with art."
Google’s ‘principles’ on AI weapons, mass surveillence, and signing out
"At some point the wolf cannot say 'I won’t eat you' to sheep any longer with a straight face, because everybody knows for a fact that it eats sheep daily."
Be on the Lookout: Amazon Turns its Gaze to Surveillance
"AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion."
Police databases, key to Trump’s opioid crackdown, push addicts into black market
"Civil rights advocates and medical groups are arguing the databases should be used to identify problem patients and get them into treatment. The American Medical Association calls for the databases to be placed under health departments rather than the police agencies and disciplinary boards that control most of them."
CEO: Tech companies should not permit governments to use face recognition
"In the hands of government surveillance programs and law enforcement agencies, there’s simply no way that face recognition software will be not used to harm citizens."
Bill Bonner: Do You Live Next to One of These Spy Hubs?
"Republicans are back on their feet, cheering the very Big Government they despised a generation ago."
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