video surveillance
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Government Watchdog Finds Most U.S. Agencies Don’t Even Know Which Face Recognition Systems They Use
Despite the fact that more than a dozen federal agencies regularly use facial recognition tech, there’s hardly any oversight into the systems these agencies use. That’s according to a new report out Tuesday from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a federal watchdog agency that offers congresspeople investigative support.
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European Commission Proposes Taking Away the Cops’ Big Boy Surveillance Machine
The EU is giving the U.S. a run for its money with privacy regulation, and now they’ve upped the ante with a dynamo of a proposal: banishing AI systems that violate “fundamental rights,” with a special place in hell for law enforcement using real-time biometric identification. The end of that sentence is more of a…
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Amazon Announces Totally Not Alarming Plan to Install Surveillance Cameras in Every Delivery Vehicle
Not content to only wield its creepy surveillance infrastructure against warehouse workers and employees considering unionization, Amazon is reportedly gearing up to install perpetually-on cameras inside its fleet of delivery vehicles as well.