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‘Aggression Detection’ Is Coming to Facial Recognition Cameras Around the World - 25 septembre 2020
Russian firm NTech Lab plans to roll emotional detection features worldwide as soon as 2021
NTech Lab, makers of Russia’s expansive real-time facial recognition surveillance system, is set to roll out “aggression detection” as well as “violence detection” features, which will flag law enforcement when the algorithm (...)
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From RealPlayer to Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush - 2 juin 2020
At least 45 companies now advertise real-time facial recognition
More than a decade before Spotify, and years before iTunes, there was RealPlayer, the first mainstream solution to playing and streaming media to a PC. Launched in 1995, within five years RealPlayer claimed a staggering 95 million users.
But it was (...)
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When citizens spy : Russia′s FindFace sparks privacy controversy | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW | 03.05.2016 - 22 avril 2020
A facial recognition app has been used to maliciously unveil the identities of Russian sex workers. Digital rights experts have warned that such technologies may undermine any semblance of privacy in the near future.
As if torn from the pages of dystopian fiction, an unwitting Russian company in February launched (...)
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Surveiller et punir : la Russie, laboratoire de nos futurs ? - Mediapart - 21 avril 2020
Alors que libertés et vie privée sont sur la sellette un peu partout face au Covid-19, la Russie entend bien en profiter pour définitivement s’imposer en leader de la surveillance des corps.
Moscou (Russie), de notre correspondant.– Dans la cinquième saison de la série, toujours très juste, Le Bureau des légendes, une (...)
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Moscow rolls out live facial recognition system with an app to alert police - The Verge - 3 février 2020
The new system is the ‘largest in the world,’ says vendor
Moscow is the latest major city to introduce live facial recognition cameras to its streets, with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announcing that the technology is operating “on a mass scale” earlier this month, according to a report from Russian business paper (...)
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How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology - 14 novembre 2019
One day in 2005, a mother in Evanston, Ill., joined Flickr. She uploaded some pictures of her children, Chloe and Jasper. Then she more or less forgot her account existed.
Years later, their faces are in a database that’s used to test and train some of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence systems in the (...)
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Pourquoi il faut sanctuariser le droit à l’anonymat - 25 janvier 2018
Introduite par Apple dans son iPhone X, la reconnaissance faciale s’apprête à envahir notre quotidien. Qu’il s’agisse d’identifier des gens sur les réseaux sociaux ou bien de payer avec son sourire plutôt qu’avec sa carte bleue, l’ascension de cette technologie semble irrésistible, du fait de son potentiel commercial (...)
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Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos "To Anticipate Criminal Activity" - 30 avril 2017
When civil liberties advocates discuss the dangers of new policing technologies, they often point to sci-fi films like "RoboCop" and "Minority Report" as cautionary tales. In "RoboCop," a massive corporation purchases Detroit’s entire police department. After one of its officer gets fatally shot on duty, the (...)
