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It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current form, the law would go…
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Man Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Up and Bomb Merriam-Webster’s HQ Over the Definition of ‘Girl’
A man allegedly threatened to bomb the headquarters of the Merriam-Webster dictionary and gun down employees over the reference book’s definitions of “woman,” “girl,” and “female,” which he believed were “part of the Left’s efforts to corrupt and degrade the English language.”
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Clearview AI’s ‘Search Engine for Faces’ Set to Receive Patent
Clearview AI, the notorious facial recognition company which has partnered with over 2,400 law enforcement agencies across the U.S, is about to receive a patent for what it describes as a first of its kind, “search engine for faces.”
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Presidents, Prime Ministers, and a King Among Potential NSO Spying Targets, Including French Leader Macron
The NSO Group’s spyware may have been used to surveil high-level politicians throughout the world, including more than a dozen world leaders, recent reports show.