“In the end, it wasn’t stakeouts or fingerprints or cell phone records that got him. It was a genealogy website.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/detectives-cracked-the-golden-state-killer-case-using-genetics/
“The ability to combine this location data with information about who appears in those photos—and any social media contacts tied to them—would make it possible for government agencies to quickly track terrorist groups posting propaganda photos. (And, really, just about anyone else.)”
“China said this week it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.”
“New South Wales’ authorities deactivated the card under Meow-Meow’s name after his surgery in April 2017 made headlines. However, since the chip implanted in his hand wasn’t registered to him, he was able to use it for almost a whole year — only downside was that he sometimes had to swipe his palm over the scanner more than once. It was only after he traveled back to Australia from a cyborg convention in the US that authorities were successfully able to cut off the card he’s been using.”
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/15/implanted-transit-pass-deactivated-australia/
“The facial recognition technology being developed for the pilot program will be capable of identifying the driver, front passengers, and the passengers riding in the back. The CBP currently operates facial recognition exit programs at almost a dozen international airports in the United States. Colleen Manaher, the CBP’s executive director of planning, program analysis and evaluation, told the Statesman that travelers have been accepting of the technology and noted that ‘we can thank the Apples and the Googles for that.'”
“If legal adults were treated like American teenagers, that government would be considered one of the most oppressive on Earth.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/teenage-dystopia-the-cycle-of-oppression-and-resistance/
“Hawaii is one of 29 states that allow medical use of marijuana, but it is the only state that requires registration of all firearms. If you are familiar with the criteria that bar people from owning guns under federal law, you can probably surmise what the conjunction of these two facts means for patients who use cannabis as a medicine, which Hawaii allows them to do only if they register with the state. Some of them recently received a letter from Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard, instructing them to turn in their guns.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/29/hawaii-which-requires-registration-of-al
“It will provide driver’s examinations via simulator, registration services, and feature advanced face-scanning technology developed by Tencent. Citizens will use their face as an ID Card. While the report wasn’t specific, it seems to indicate that those using the services won’t have to sit at stations and sign up for accounts, or download apps to generate logins. Image recognition AI will have access to all the pertinent information needed — it all sounds very elegant and smooth.”
“Government institutions are already blindly following the direction the algorithms give. A report by ProPublica found that an algorithmic system for criminal sentencing was biased against black people—not by understanding the color of their skin but by using flawed data correlated with race. Teachers in Texas recently won a case where their job performance was being evaluated by an algorithm—a circuit court found that the unexplainable software violated the teachers’ 14th amendment rights to due process.”
“Facebook has apologized after a Palestinian man was arrested by Israeli police for a post saying ‘good morning’ that its automatic-translation service erroneously translated as ‘attack them’ in Hebrew and ‘hurt them’ in English.”
