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Clearview AI, Facial Recognition Company That Works With Law Enforcement, Says Entire Client List Was Stolen - 1er mars 2020
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers.
A facial-recognition company that contracts with powerful law-enforcement agencies just reported that an intruder stole its entire client (...)
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Facebook Silences Rohingya Reports of Ethnic Cleansing - 24 septembre 2017
The social network says it’s committed to helping the world "˜share their stories.’ But when people from Burma’s oppressed minority post, their stories have a habit of disappearing.
Rohingya activists"”in Burma and in Western countries"”tell The Daily Beast that Facebook has been removing their posts documenting the (...)
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Hackers Make Searchable Database to Dox Instagram Celebs - 5 septembre 2017
The flaw that hackers used around the time someone targeted Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber has been fixed"”but not in time to protect the privacy of thousands of Instagrammers.
On Wednesday, Instagram announced it had fixed a bug that allowed hackers to learn users’ phone numbers and email addresses. But for (...)
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AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal - 27 octobre 2016
The telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement"”without a warrant"”and earning millions of dollars a year from taxpayers.
On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff’s deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist’s report of human remains outside of town.
They identified the partially (...)
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First State Legalizes Taser Drones for Cops, Thanks to a Lobbyist - 8 septembre 2016
It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist.
With all the concern over the militarization of police in the past year, no one noticed that the state became the first in the union to allow (...)
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First State Legalizes Taser Drones for Cops, Thanks to a Lobbyist - 29 août 2015
North Dakota police will be free to fire "˜less than lethal’ weapons from the air thanks to the influence of Big Drone.
It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist.
With all the concern over (...)
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Your Samsung SmartTV Is Spying on You, Basically - 9 février 2015
You may be loving your new Internet-connected television and its convenient voice-command feature"”but did you know it’s recording everything you say and sending it to a third party ?
Careful what you say around your TV. It may be listening. And blabbing.
A single sentence buried in a dense "privacy policy" for (...)
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The Banks’ War on Porn Stars - 10 mai 2014
Several porn stars have taken to Twitter to complain that Chase has shut down their accounts, and the Department of Justice has been accused of being behind the moral policing.
Something is rotten in Pornville.
Several of the biggest names in porn took to Twitter last month to rail against Chase, claiming that (...)
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WikiLeaks Founder Has Massacre Video - 16 juin 2010
Julian Assange, who the Feds fear may release State Dept. secrets, denies having them"”but he’s readying video of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan.
After several days underground, the founder of the secretive website WikiLeaks has gone public to disclose that he is preparing to release a classified Pentagon (...)
