privacy The Chinese government is putting tracking chips into school uniforms to watch every move kids make Séamus Bellamy
surveillance London cops are subjecting people in the centre of town to facial recognition today and tomorrow Cory Doctorow
china Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking Cory Doctorow
racism Machine learning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your personality from your facial bone structure Cory Doctorow
facial recognition A Nest doorbell locks door when it confuses homeowner with his Batman shirt Carla Sinclair
Business The ACLU showed that Amazon's facial recognition system thinks members of Congress are felons, so now Congress is taking action Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon has been quietly selling its facial recognition system to US police forces, marketing it for bodycam use Cory Doctorow
surveillance New York high school will use CCTV and facial recognition to enforce discipline Cory Doctorow
uk Welsh police deployed facial recognition tech with a 92% false positive rate, but they're sure it's fine Cory Doctorow
china China escalates the war on jaywalkers with automated shouting laser/squirtguns tied to motion-sensors Cory Doctorow
china Chinese jaywalkers are identified and shamed by facial recognition, and now they'll get warnings over text message Cory Doctorow
