“A private conversation was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker — and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.”
“A staggering 95% of the facial recognition system’s ‘matches’ were actually wrongly identifying innocent people.”
Read more: https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/uk-police-facial-recognition-wrong,news-58429.html
“Data from more than 10,000 accounts were exposed. The unprotected servers were letting anybody see Apple user IDs, parents’ email addresses, unique phone IDs, users’ attempts to ‘find my iPhone’ and passwords stored in plaintext.”
“Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17379968/amazon-rekognition-facial-recognition-surveillance-aclu
“This fully electronic license, which is encoded into smartphones, will grant police officers the power to monitor citizens without even having to conduct routine traffic stops.”
Read more: https://www.aier.org/article/e-drivers-licenses-enable-round-clock-surveillance
“Both Operation LASER and PredPol are sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance’s SMART Policing Initiative, which aims to use ‘evidence-based, data-driven’ policing strategies to try and pre-empt and prevent crime.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surveillance-los-angeles/
“A little-known service has been leaking the real-time locations of US cell phone users to anyone who takes the time to exploit an easily spotted bug in a free trial feature.”
“Boston Dynamics, the company known for its ‘nightmare-inducing’ backflipping robots, has unveiled two new videos that show them autonomously navigating through different terrains, including an office and a lab, and jogging in a grass field.”
“Around a dozen Google employees have already quit over the company’s involvement in an artificial intelligence drone program for the Pentagon called Project Maven.”
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/14/google-project-maven-employee-protest/
“A former Missouri sheriff has been charged with using an online service operated by law enforcement contractor Securus to track cell phones illegally.”
Read more: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/269259-your-cell-carrier-selling-your-location-data
