“The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/eade4e6efbf442328b0e1eefabd98f05
“At some point the wolf cannot say ‘I won’t eat you’ to sheep any longer with a straight face, because everybody knows for a fact that it eats sheep daily.”
Read more: http://fastml.com/googles-principles-on-ai-weapons-mass-surveillence-and-signing-out/
“Silicon Valley relies on the SPLC to police ‘hate speech’.”
“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”
“Swann is owned by the Infinova Group, a US-based security camera specialist with offices across the globe.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44628399
“The consent form isn’t exactly clear that it would allow humans — and not just computers — to read your emails.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/2/17527972/gmail-app-developers-full-email-access
“The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html
“Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to ‘spin’ information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland’s mayor.”
“The overseas agency MI6 and the domestic service MI5 were involved in hundreds of torture cases and scores of rendition cases.”
“The TSA is effective at violating our liberty, but it is ineffective at protecting our security.”