Tag: surveillance

• France sets EU precedent with 2024 Olympics surveillance arsenal

  March 25, 2023

  France’s AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday. The French government wants to experiment with large-scale, real-time camera systems… more ›

• China’s Censors Are Afraid of What Chatbots Might Say

  March 14, 2023

  ChatGPT has made quite the stir in China: virtually every major tech company is keen on developing its own artificial intelligence chatbot. Baidu has announced plans to release its own… more ›

• Let’s Agree That I Don’t Know You

  August 8, 2022

  In a world of strangers, the act of recognizing who you are has value. But increasingly that personalized greeting is becoming commoditized: from personalised spam to automated birthday greetings; the… more ›

• Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK

  August 6, 2022

  Migrants who have been convicted of a criminal offence will be required to scan their faces up to five times a day using smartwatches installed with facial recognition technology under… more ›

• Pixy drone hands-on: A flying robot photographer for Snapchat users

  July 31, 2022

  You don’t need to pilot the Pixy. In fact, you couldn’t if you wanted to. Rather, it flies by itself, performing pre-programmed patterns that put the focus on you, the… more ›

• The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth

  July 16, 2022

  It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. t is one… more ›

• Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE

  June 30, 2022

  Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents… more ›

• I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move

  February 12, 2022

  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. In mid-January, my husband and I were having an argument. Our 1-year-old… more ›

• Surveillance, Companionship, and Entertainment: The Ancient History of Intelligent Machines

  December 5, 2021

  Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years. Robots have histories that extend far back into the… more ›

• China’s Biggest Movie Star Was Erased From the Internet, and the Mystery Is Why

  September 19, 2021

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