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Watchdog group sues NYPD over sentiment data-tracking records - 8 octobre 2020
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), a nonprofit hosted by the Urban Justice Center that is dedicated to advocating against state-sponsored surveillance, today filed suit with Debevoise & Plimpton against the New York Police Department (NYPD). The suit alleges the NYPD refused to disclose (...)
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Stanford lab envisions delivery drones that save energy by taking the bus - 5 juin 2020
Researchers from Stanford University have devised a way for hundreds of drones to use the bus or trams in an effort to redesign how packages are distributed in cities. Should such a solution ever scale, it could reduce delivery van congestion and energy usage while extending the distance a drone can travel to (...)
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U.S. Senators propose facial recognition moratorium for federal government | VentureBeat - 15 février 2020
Two Democratic U.S. Senators today proposed legislation that requires a moratorium on facial recognition use by federal agencies, government employees, and law enforcement without a warrant until a Congressional commission can act to recommend guidelines and place limits on use of the technology.
The bill, named (...)
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AI Weekly : In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan - 22 octobre 2019
Picture a world in which the baseline requirement for a new smartphone is a facial recognition test. You needn’t imagine it "” in China, beginning December 1, that’s the scrutiny to which the country’s over 850 million internet users will be subject, without exception. The Ministry of Electronics and Information (...)
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Apple removes Vigilante live crime alert tool from the App Store - 4 novembre 2016
Live crime alert app Vigilante was removed from the iOS App Store late last week after only two days of operation.
Vigilante "” available only in New York City at launch "” sends users a push notification of crimes in progress so they can either choose to avoid the area or go to the scene to broadcast live video as (...)
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Facebook patents technology to help lenders discriminate against borrowers based on social connections - 6 août 2015
Facebook has been granted an updated patent from the U.S. Patent office on a technology that can help lenders discriminate against certain borrowers based on the borrower’s social network connections.
The patent describes a technology that tracks the way users are connected in a network. The main use case is for (...)
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Microsoft integrates its How Old face-recognition tool into Bing image search results - 27 mai 2015
Microsoft is now approximating the gender and age of people who appear in images in search results in its Bing search engine. This is a new implementation of the face-recognition technology that Microsoft first showed off last month at its Build conference.
To see how it works, just search for a person’s name in (...)
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Amazon’s Fire Phone might be the biggest privacy invasion ever (and no one’s noticed) - 26 juin 2014
Amazon is a fascinating company, and the Amazon Fire Phone is a fascinating machine for connecting you with stuff to buy. It’s probably also the biggest single invasion of your privacy for commercial purposes ever.
And no one seems to have noticed.
There’s a lot of gee-whiz gadgetry in the new Fire Phone : a 3-D (...)
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Google is researching ways to make encryption easier to use in Gmail - 23 avril 2014
In response to Edward Snowden’s mass surveillance revelations, Google is working to make complex encryption tools, such as PGP, easier to use in Gmail.
PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, is an encryption utility that historically has been difficult to break. But Google has "research underway to improve the usability of (...)
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U.S. Air Force is testing Google Glass & building apps for battlefield use - 9 avril 2014
The U.S. Air Force’s "BATMAN" research team at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is beta-testing Google Glass for possible use on the battlefield.
And so far, it likes what it sees.
The positive attributes "are its low power, its low footprint, it sits totally above the eyes, and doesn’t block images or (...)
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Larry Page on Charlie Rose : "We’re still waiting" for Facebook to unlock user data - 22 mai 2012
Google chief executive Larry Page appears on PBS show "Charlie Rose" this evening at 11 p.m. local time.
In the show, Page addresses a wide range of topics, starting with today’s surprising news that Chrome is now the most popular browser on the Internet. ("I’m really excited about that." )
Check out a clip from (...)
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Your address book is mine : Many iPhone apps take your data - 20 avril 2012
Path got caught red-handed uploading users’ address books to its servers and had to apologize. But the relatively obscure journaling app is not alone. In fact, Path was crucified for a practice that has become an unspoken industry standard.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Foodspotting, Yelp, and Gowalla (...)
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Power play : How Zuckerberg wrested control of Facebook from his shareholders - 1er février 2012
Mark Zuckerberg controls a majority of Facebook’s voting rights, and will continue to enjoy that control after it goes public, according to an unusual arrangement he struck with some key investors and colleagues among Facebook’s shareholders.
A string of voting arrangements outlined in Facebook’s SEC filing show (...)
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18 new ways Mark Zuckerberg rules social networking - 6 août 2010
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already the undisputed king of social networks, but now he has one more prize : 18 key patents related to social networks, quietly purchased this summer from the industry’s faded pioneer, Friendster.
The Friendster patents were transfered to Facebook on June 7, according to the (...)
