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The retailer denies there is any widespread issue with the software, but a group expressed frustration—and public health concerns.
€4.5 million has been pumped into the virtual policeman project meant to judge the honesty of travelers. An expert calls the technology “not credible.”
Just look at this suspect's gun that turned out to be a banana
Shitty Tumblr pornbot inception
Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking
Reflections on Social Network Content Blocking & Censorship
It's a powerful tool, but recent incidents have shown that there's no winning with facial recognition.
Op internet is alles te koop. Dus ook een datapakket met daarin namen, e-mailadressen en wachtwoorden van meer dan honderd miljoen mensen. Beschikbaar gekomen na een hack of omdat een bedrijf de data
The DHS has illegally stuffed America's airports full of $1B worth shitty, malfing facial-recognition tech
Uit onderzoek blijkt dat de Britse politie fouten maakte bij het linken van IP-adressen aan kinderpornoverdachten.
Professor whose study suggested technology can detect whether a person is gay or straight says programs will soon reveal traits such as criminal predisposition
Rotterdammers ervoeren woensdagavond wat het betekent om in een land te wonen waar de terreurdreiging substantieel is. Een tip uit Spanje werd door de Nederlandse autoriteiten zo serieus ingeschat, dat een politiemacht naar Rotterdam-Zuid toog en het concert van de band Allah-Las werd afgelast...
A Facebook group for Norwegians opposed to immigration was widely mocked after members apparently could not tell the difference between empty bus seats and burka-clad women.
Techniques for reliably fooling AI machine-vision classifiers
The World-Check database includes a baby and groups like Human Rights Watch, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Greenpeace.
In the Liberty City Seven terror case, a group of street hustlers working a scam fell victim to an FBI informant posing as an agent of Al Qaeda.
Company backtracks again, this time on program that used geolocation, credit card info and social media to profile users they believed to be involved in stings
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Why the FBI would be nuts to try to use chatbots to flush out terrorists online
An undercover police officer "chased himself round the streets" for
20 minutes after a CCTV operator mistook him for suspect.
20 minutes after a CCTV operator mistook him for suspect.
FBI facial recognition experts identified Steve Talley as a bank robber. They were wrong.
Due to the rampant paranoia and Islamophobia that is unfortunately so common in our world, Muslims have to be extra careful when trying to travel by air. Airlines are catering to people’s absurd fears of other races, religions, skin colors, and even other languages. These airlines are kicking people off planes for being Muslim. That’s right, airlines reserve the RIGHT …
FBI did not properly disclose privacy impact of storing 411m photos and has no information on how often software returns false positives, a new study finds
Etnische minderheden komen nu eenmaal vaker voor in de politiestatistieken, dus moet je ze ook vaker controleren. Het is hét argument voor etnisch profileren, maar het is een ernstig misverstand.
Not from airlines afraid of terrorists, anyway. Since about 15 people have sent me some version of this story about an economist on an airplane, I thought I’d comment briefly on my take. Name…
French guy raided multiple times by police bc provider used him as default if it didn't have name with IP