Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril ...
FOIA docs: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide whether US visa applicants' social media posts are “derogatory” to the US, as part of immigration enforcement
Check out this @404mediaco story on social media surveillance docs obtained by our @ACLU_NorCal team + @ACLU. https://www.404media.co/... Terri K O / @terri@social.afront.org : This article on how the...
Some police departments in California and Georgia have started using autonomous drones this year to track vehicles and people, raising civil rights questions
In one Southern California city, flying drones with artificial intelligence are aiding investigations while presenting new civil rights questions. Tweets: @matt_cagle , @jessicaramos , @astepanovich ,...
No known arrests or prosecutions stemmed from San Diego's 7-year facial recognition program, which compiled 65K face scans; the program ended Dec. 31, 2019
DJ Pangburn / Fast Company : Tweets: @lizjosullivan , @donttag , @liz_in_shanghai , @matt_cagle , and @rogre Tweets: @lizjosullivan : People often ask me why I really want to ban facial recognition w...
Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News
Subscribe — Top of the Morning — Hi Peter. Julie Bort / Business Insider : The cofounder of Palantir just called Google ‘an unpatriotic company.’ … Chris White / The Daily Caller : Facebook's Form...
As bars check IDs with PatronScan, its manufacturer, Servall Biometrics, touts a global database with 40K+ banned patrons, amid fears of enabling discrimination
the “nightlife equivalent of a no-fly list.” Important reporting by @susie_c: https://onezero.medium.com/... Lois Beckett / @loisbeckett : You hand over your ID to be scanned at the door to a bar. And...
Two Google employees who helped organize walkouts say they've faced demotions or dramatically changed roles, plan a town hall to share stories of retaliation
both at research institutions like @AINowInstitute, and at places like Google, which need calls for change and self-reflection from strong voices within. http://www.nytimes.com/... Kate Conger / @kate...
ACLU releases documents showing ICE lets over 9,200 employees access a controversial license plate database with little oversight
and local police are helping. We're calling for an immediate end to this, which threatens everyone's privacy — especially immigrants. https://www.aclu.org/... Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : Wo...
Civil rights groups concerned as FOIA request shows cities' law enforcement adopted Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech without prior public discourse
It's Selling Facial Recognition To U.S. Cops Tristan Greene / The Next Web : Amazon's facial recognition is now aiding US law enforcement Nathan Yau / FlowingData : Amazon Rekognition for government s...
A look at the complications Facebook faces as it increases its content moderation efforts to fight misinformation, much of which happens opaquely
and censorship. Tough to toe. Worth keeping in mind as this effort ramps up. Tal-Anna Szlenski / @talsz : The concept of free speech will forever be a Gordian Knot. As with anything, technology emphas...