“Only 20 percent of the members of Congress are racial minorities. But 39 percent of the members of Congress who were mistaken for criminals were racial minorities.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/26/amazon-facial-recognition-confuses-membe
“Roughly one in every two American adults—117 million people—are in the facial recognition networks used by law enforcement, according to a 2016 report.”
Read more: https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2018/07/facial-recognition-toll-booths-identify.html
“In another example of the extraordinary lengths Canadian immigration officials go to deport migrants, the Canada Border Services Agency has been collecting their DNA and using ancestry websites to find and contact their distant relatives and establish their nationality.”
“It’s not a stretch to say that it’s one of the most important lawsuits to ever cross the desk of a federal judge. The core of the Bill of Rights is in play, and a wrong result could formalize a slide into authoritarianism that began long ago, but accelerated after 9/11.”
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-to-survive-americas-kill-list-699334/
“For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film ‘Minority Report,’ this will sound like life catching up with art.”
“There’s a category of story we call ‘Them Not Us’—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.”
“We finally have enough evidence to establish a theory about why so many law enforcement departments rolled over so easily. They recognized that body cameras were valuable assets when prosecutors needed evidence and malfunctioning junk when law enforcers might be shown in a bad light.”
Read more: https://blog.christopherburg.com/2018/07/11/body-cameras-are-for-the-benefit-of-prosecutors-not-you/
“Welcome to a world where Juggalo makeup is your best shot at avoiding involuntary surveillance.”
“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/
“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”
