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Police Protests : Uber Eats And Other Food Delivery Apps Will Continue Taking Orders Despite Curfew Ordinances - 5 juin 2020
About 40 cities in the US have instituted curfews. Food delivery workers will still be on the hook for deliveries.
Food delivery apps will still process orders placed after curfews begin in dozens of cities around the US, including cities where police have violently attacked people on the streets in recent days, (...)
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Minneapolis Police Can Use Facial Recognition And License Plates Readers To Identify Protesters - 3 juin 2020
As protesters demonstrate in Minneapolis in response to George Floyd’s death, law enforcement agencies have access to a host of surveillance tools that could make it easier to target and find them.
The Minneapolis Police Department has a wide breadth of surveillance technologies that could be used to monitor and (...)
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Clearview AI’s Secret Users Included A Former Trump Staffer, A Troll, And Conservative Think Tanks - 14 mars 2020
CEO Hoan Ton-That said his facial recognition app is strictly for law enforcement. But he’s shared it with political connections, potential investors, and entities designated as “Friend.”
On a flight to Boston in January, James, a young academic, caught the attention of an aisle mate. “Do you go to school in the area (...)
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Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI Has Been Experimenting With Security Cameras - 4 mars 2020
Clearview AI is operating a sister entity called Insight Camera that’s been experimenting with live facial recognition, according to documents seen by BuzzFeed News and companies that have used it.
Clearview AI, the secretive company that’s built a database of billions of photos scraped without permission from (...)
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Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used By The Justice Department, ICE, And The FBI - 29 février 2020
A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world.
The United States’ main immigration enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, retailers including Best Buy and Macy’s, and a sovereign (...)
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Police In England Have Run Hundreds Of Searches On A New Facial Recognition Tool - 29 février 2020
Exclusive : The UK National Crime Agency and a number of police forces across England, as well as several private investment firms, have registered users with facial recognition software company Clearview AI.
The National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police are among a number of leading organisations across the (...)
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Instagram-Scraping Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition Software To Authoritarian Regimes - 7 février 2020
Facebook confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, asking the company to stop using information from Facebook and Instagram.
As legal pressures and US lawmaker scrutiny mounts, Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims to have a database of more than 3 (...)
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A Pennsylvania Court Tried To Force Ancestry.com To Open Up Its Database Of 16 Million DNA Profiles To The Police - 6 février 2020
A Pennsylvania court’s move to issue a search warrant to Ancestry.com sets off a legal struggle that could go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Ancestry.com, the largest DNA testing company in the world, was served a search warrant to give police access to its database of some 16 million DNA profiles, but the (...)
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Clearview AI Says It Identified A Terrorism Suspect. The Cops Say That’s Not True. - 23 janvier 2020
Clearview AI has built a database of billions of photos that it says can reveal just about anyone’s true identity. But there are troubling questions about its past.
Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that says it’s amassed a database of billions of photos, has a fantastic selling point it offers up to police (...)
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The Rise — And Rise — Of Mass Surveillance - 30 décembre 2019
Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds.
We live in a world where school cameras monitor children’s emotions, countries collect people’s DNA en masse, and no digital communication seems (...)
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The cost of next-day delivery - 24 décembre 2019
Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame
Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans. Here is how Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery (...)
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How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers - 16 octobre 2019
Asher Burke built his company, Ads Inc, on the back of one of the internet’s most persistent, lucrative, and sophisticated scams — the subscription trap. And then it all fell apart.
In late November 2018, Asher Burke gathered his employees in their San Diego office and laid out a vision for how Ads Inc. was going (...)
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Instagram Keeps Deleting Shirtless Photos Of Long-Haired Boys - 24 septembre 2019
"Dear Instagram, I’m a boy. I just have long hair. Quit deleting my pictures !"
A group of moms on Instagram wants to know why the app keeps taking down topless photos of their sons, even though they don’t break any rules.
The boys come from all over the world but share one key characteristic — long hair.
One of (...)
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Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets "” But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame - 7 septembre 2019
Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans. Here is how Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.
Valdimar Gray was delivering packages for Amazon at the height of the (...)
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YouTube Star Austin Jones Has Been Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Child Porn - 6 mai 2019
YouTube star Austin Jones was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Friday for persuading underage girls to send him sexually explicit videos of themselves.
Jones, 26, of Bloomingdale, Illinois, pleaded guilty in February to one count of receipt of child pornography. He admitted in a plea agreement that in 2016 (...)
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These Facebook Pages Are Spending Thousands Of Pounds Trying To Influence Your Views On Brexit - 16 janvier 2019
"As a regular person, you know that vast sums of money are being spent but you have no idea who those organisations are."
New data from Facebook’s ad archive has revealed that a network of hard-Brexit and second referendum campaigning groups splashed more than £1 million on ads in the lead-up to Theresa May’s (...)
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Facebook Filed A Patent To Predict Your Household’s Demographics Based On Family Photos - 16 novembre 2018
Facebook’s proposed technology would analyze your #wifey tags, shared IP addresses, and photos to predict whom you live with.
Facebook has submitted a patent application for technology that would predict who your family and other household members are, based on images and captions posted to Facebook, as well as (...)
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Square, Airbnb, And eBay Just Said They Would End Forced Arbitration For Sexual Harassment Claims - 15 novembre 2018
Square, Airbnb, And eBay Just Said They Would End Forced Arbitration For Sexual Harassment Claims
Many major tech companies have long preferred to force employees to settle sexual harassment claims in private arbitration — a policy that shields firms from the embarrassing prospect of workers airing their (...)
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How WhatsApp Destroyed A Village - 9 septembre 2018
In July, residents of a rural Indian town saw rumors of child kidnappers on WhatsApp. Then they beat five strangers to death.
Hours after a mob of villagers beat five strangers to death over a rumor on WhatsApp, nobody wanted to clean up the blood : There was just too much of it.
It lay congealed in a (...)
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How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel The Philippine Drug War - 4 septembre 2018
"We were seduced, we were lured, we were hooked, and then, when we became captive audiences, we were manipulated to see what other people — people with vested interests and evil motives of power and domination — wanted us to see."
In August 2016, a handful of crude images began circulating widely throughout (...)
