Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs).
This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert.
FRT brings a rash of problems.
It relies on extensive surveillance and collecting images on individuals, law-abiding or otherwise.
Misidentifications can cause horrendous consequences for individuals, includ…
"Google showing a wall of ads before any real results. Facebook promising to “never spy on you,” before evolving into a mass surveillance apparatus. Amazon’s highest-ranked products buoyed by fake reviews."
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/bo
Flock Surveillance
refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety,
-- a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition and
vehicle-tracking networks to
police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S.
🔥This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks
without sufficient oversight,
raising serious concerns about privacy, …
Yeah, Jimmy “I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that”* Wales, the surveillance capitalist and Fandom-president adtech man who once told me he doesn’t believe in any form of government regulation – not even in food standards or healthcare – can go fuck himself.
Find better heroes. Or even better yet, get over the whole stupid concept itself.
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Peter Williams, the former general manager at defense contractor L3Harris,
has pleaded guilty to selling surveillance technology to a Russian broker that buys “cyber tools,”
the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed Wednesday.
“The material, stolen over a three-year period from the U.S. defense contractor where he worked,
was comprised of national-security focused software that included at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components,”
read the D…
So, apparently Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with the antichrist, had never pondered how to respond if someone notices that he's behaving like one, or at least enabling one. Not exactly my idea of resilient thinker.
“You’re an investor in AI,” Douthat says. “You’re deeply invested in Palantir, in military technology, in technologies of surveillance and technologies of warfare and so on. And it just seems to me that when you tell me a story about the Antichrist coming to power and us…
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