China is building a DMV station powered by AI, not humans

“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.”

Read more: https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/11/09/china-is-building-a-police-station-powered-by-ai-not-humans/

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TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports

“CBP wants to vastly expand its program to cover domestic flights as well. It wants to create a ‘biometric’ pathway that would use face recognition to track all travelers—including U.S. citizens—through airports from check-in, through security, into airport lounges, and onto flights. And it wants to partner with commercial airlines and airports to do just that.  Congress seems poised to provide both TSA and CBP with the statutory authority to support these plans.”

Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/tsa-plans-use-face-recognition-track-americans-through-airports

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Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition To Identify Travelers

“US Customs and Border Protection considers its jurisdiction to be anything within 100 miles of the border, so naturally one of the privacy questions for Americans is whether this tech would be deployed inside the United States. CBP did not respond to a request for comment on this story that was sent yesterday evening. We’ll update this post if we hear back.”

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/us-homeland-security-wants-facial-recognition-to-identi-1820070071

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Privacy fears over artificial intelligence as crimestopper

“Police in the US state of Delaware are poised to deploy ‘smart’ cameras in cruisers to help authorities detect a vehicle carrying a fugitive, missing child or straying senior.  The program is part of a growing trend to use vision-based AI to thwart crime and improve public safety, a trend which has stirred concerns among privacy and civil liberties activists who fear the technology could lead to secret ‘profiling’ and misuse of data.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/privacy-fears-over-artificial-intelligence-crimestopper-015326163.html

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Napolitano: What if Government Steals Liberty and Fails to Deliver Safety?

“What if this bulk surveillance is about power and control and not about safety? What if the use of intelligence data for political purposes and not for safety is a profound danger to democracy? What if government can’t keep us safe? What if we falsely think that it does keep us safe? What if that delusion makes us less safe? What if government’s bulk acquisition of private data makes us less free? What if government works not for us but for itself? What do we do about it?”

Read more: https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano/11/17/what-if-government-steals-liberty-and-fails-to-deliver-safety

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‘Stingray on steroids’: Texas National Guard has spy devices on planes

“Devices capable of accessing calls, photos and text messages on cell phones were installed on two Texas National Guard surveillance aircraft. The project was funded by over $300,000 from drug-related asset forfeitures.  The cell site simulators, known as ‘dirt boxes’ (after the company’s acronym, DRT), are designed to mimic cell phone towers and trick every smartphone within one-third of a mile into connecting with it. This enables operators to intercept sensitive information including the user’s location, phone numbers dialed, text messages and photos. The devices can also be used to record or listen to phone calls ‒ all of it without users or service providers knowing about it.”

Read more: https://www.rt.com/usa/408968-texas-guard-dirtbox-devices/

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Prosecutors aren’t obligated to believe the evidence they present at trial

“I was surprised to learn that most state bars have no requirement that prosecutors believe that the evidence they present is truthful. Courts have ruled that even if prosecutors knowingly break the law — such as detaining defense witnesses in order to prevent them from testifying at trial — those who were harmed by the prosecutors’ behavior have no recourse.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/11/09/are-prosecutors-obligated-to-believe-the-evidence-they-present-at-trial/

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Texas Police, Looking for More Military Hardware, Tout Its Use In Harvey Relief

“With military-grade equipment available for the cost of pick-up, police forces have been stocking up. While some of that equipment appears actually to have been used in post-hurricane relief work, most of it is better suited for SWAT raids, intimidating protesters, and killing people.”

Read more: https://www.mintpressnews.com/texas-police-seek-more-military-gear-touting-use-hurricane-harvey/233923/

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Fire Congress, Impeach Trump: The CIA Flips Off America

“These files are not in compliance with the law no matter what the main stream media says.  They are an in-your-face flipped bird to the American public.  They basically tell us that the CIA is saying that they don’t have to comply with the law of the land and that they will not tell us their secrets and that there is nothing we can do about it.  I’ve been here before.”

Read more: http://aarclibrary.org/the-intelligence-community-flips-off-america/

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The National Archives: Lawbreaker and Cover-Upper

“Trump, consistent with his dictatorial tendencies, has effectively rewritten the law to suit himself and the CIA.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/2017/11/06/national-archives-lawbreaker-cover-upper/

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