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Border Patrol Has Used Facial Recognition to Scan More Than 16 Million Fliers — and Caught Just 7 Imposter - 5 septembre 2020
A new report lays out CBP’s shoddy implementation of facial recognition technology
The agency that runs the United States’ airport and border facial recognition program has failed to properly tell the public about how it works, a new report has found. In whole, the report reads like a major red flag : The U.S. (...)
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An Interview With Ex-Amazon VP Tim Bray on Why He Left : "It Just Felt Wrong" - 27 août 2020
Bray talks to journalist Alex Kantrowitz about how Amazon treats workers, regulation, and more
In May, Amazon VP and distinguished engineer Tim Bray said he was leaving the company. Amazon had just fired employees who spoke out against its working conditions, and Bray couldn’t tolerate it. He handed in his (...)
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, a New Book by Cory Doctorow - 26 août 2020
Editor’s Note : Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This is the subject of Cory Doctorow’s new book, which we’re thrilled to publish in whole here on OneZero. This is how to destroy surveillance (...)
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Why Facebook Can’t Quash QAnon - 23 août 2020
QAnon has become impossible to ignore. The bizarre, sprawling, right-wing conspiracy theory, which holds that a pseudonymous Trump ally known as Q is involved in a secret battle against a powerful globalist “deep state” linked to pedophilia and Satan worship, has been gathering adherents for years. Supercharged by (...)
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The Facial Recognition Industry Promises to Regulate Itself. Sure, Okay. - 23 août 2020
Members of the industry group proposing ethics guidelines have broken those guidelines already
While American cities and Congress weigh whether facial recognition technology has a place in the U.S., the world’s largest facial recognition companies are trying to get out ahead of legislation by publishing a new set (...)
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What Killed Quayside, Sidewalk Labs’ Ambitious Smart City in Toronto - 15 août 2020
Alphabet bet big in Toronto. Toronto didn’t play along.
In October 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at a VIP-laden press event in Toronto to announce plans for a new neighborhood in the city to be built “from the internet up.” The big reveal was the builder : Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of (...)
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An Unelected Monarch Is Shaping Our Public Life. His Name Is Mark Zuckerberg - 13 août 2020
The most important election this year has only one voter
If it’s not the single most powerful individual position in the world, it only has a few rivals. Think general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Or the Pope. Or chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Or maybe the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
It’s a (...)
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Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Others Sign on to Fight Trump’s Immigration Freeze - 11 août 2020
52 companies are now united against a proclamation from the Trump administration that suspends temporary work visas
Technology companies are throwing their weight behind lawsuits that accuse the Trump administration of harming the U.S. economy in suspending temporary work visas. On Monday, 52 companies including (...)
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The Inside Story of How Facebook Acquired Instagram - 11 août 2020
The social giant’s controversial $1 billion acquisition shows how a tech monopoly wields power
Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was a watershed moment for Big Tech. It demonstrated just how much wealth and power the industry holds — and how it could be wielded. Secret emails, published as part of a (...)
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Companies Are Using Employee Survey Data to Predict — and Squash — Union Organizing - 9 août 2020
Employee survey platforms allow employers to sort groups of employees by the departments, locations, and demographics most likely to unionize
In April, Business Insider reported that Whole Foods kept tabs on stores likely to unionize through an interactive heat map based on scores derived from more than two dozen (...)
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Here’s How Professional Union Busters Talk About ‘Woke’ Tech Organizers - 9 août 2020
A law firm webinar advised employers on how to avoid becoming a target of CODE, an organizing initiative in tech and video game industries
On July 30, the employment and labor law firm Jackson Lewis put on a one-hour webinar designed to educate employers on a new threat : a wave of union organizing in the video (...)
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The U.S. Military Is Building Voice-Controlled War Robots - 9 août 2020
And unlike Siri, they’ll be able to understand the speaker’s ‘intent’
War robots today take just too much darn time to control. I know it, you know it, and the U.S. Army knows it.
That’s why its research branch is cooking up a system that would allow soldiers to give orders to small robotic cars by speaking (...)
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The Dream of a Global Internet Is Dead - 9 août 2020
Trump’s ban on Chinese apps is part of a tide of digital nationalism
“The dream behind the Web,” wrote the person who invented it, “is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential : the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, (...)
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My Bizarre Stint As an Amazon Reviewer for Hire - 16 juillet 2020
In exchange for positive Amazon reviews, the mysterious Facebook accounts who recruited me promised me free stuff. They delivered.
I didn’t intend to become a liar for hire, a purveyor of fake news on that terrible site, Amazon. But I knew I went too far when I woke up shrouded by my untruths. My blanket, pillows, (...)
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Now Is the Time to Dismantle Our Cities’ Invasive Surveillance Infrastructure - 30 juin 2020
Not all innovation deserves to exist — many surveillance and policing technologies should never have been created in the first place
It may have sounded radical when Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft announced they were either exiting the facial recognition market or enacting moratoriums on providing such software to (...)
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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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This Is the Ad Clearview AI Used to Sell Your Face to Police - 11 mars 2020
Emails obtained by OneZero reveal the controversial company’s marketing to law enforcement
Months before facial recognition company Clearview AI was on the front page of the New York Times, the company was quietly advertising to police departments across the country, emails obtained by OneZero show.
Clearview AI (...)
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Robot Truckers Are Here — They Just Happen to Be Human - 2 octobre 2019
Electronic tracking devices and other surveillance tech monitor just about everything human drivers do, automating what was once an independent job
Truckers drink coffee and complain about Mondays just like everybody else. Work can be a slog. But unlike what you’re probably used to in your office, many truck (...)
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On Nextdoor, the Homeless Are the Enemy - 30 septembre 2019
The platform built for neighborhood news often scapegoats the most disadvantaged communities
On August 14, a man broke into a home in the Shafter neighborhood in Oakland, California. According to the resident of the home, the alleged thief entered through a locked gate in the backyard, stole a laptop, jewelry, (...)
