Ravie Lakshmanan | The Next Web | Source URL Amazon has announced that its facial recognition system can now detect “fear” by reading a person’s face. Dubbed Rekognition, the software offers a comprehensive range of tools for face detection, analysis, and recognition in images and videos. It’s one among several […]
Chris Menahan | Information Liberation | Source URL This is the system our ruling oligarchs are trying to implement in America. China restricted 2.56 million discredited entities from purchasing plane tickets, and 90,000 entities from buying high-speed rail tickets in July: NDRC #socialcredit pic.twitter.com/4zAwJ7hrBn — Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 16, […]
Q97.9 (WJBQ) | Source URL Have you visited any grocery stores in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or New Jersey lately and noticed a tall, cartoon-eyed robot slowly following you up and down the aisles? Marty the Robot is Stop & Shop’s newest employee and is causing quite a stir. Since January, about 300 […]
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com | Source URL The Communist Chinese government is bragging about its social credit system preventing 2.5 million “discredited entities” from purchasing plane tickets and 90,000 people from buying high speed train tickets in the month of July alone. “China restricted 2.56 million discredited entities from […]
“The White House is calling for reauthorization of a program that security agencies have used to spy on innocent people, violate their privacy, and chill free speech.” Jake Johnston | Common Dreams | Source URL Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates raised alarm Thursday after the Trump administration called on […]
Miami Herald | Source URL MIAMI – Federal immigration agents are beefing up their efforts to apprehend undocumented immigrants in South Florida as part of a nationwide effort to “keep communities safe.” The target: transportation hubs. In the past few weeks, Customs and Border Patrol officials have been spotted by […]
UK Sun | Source URL GOOGLE has warned users that billions of passwords – and hundreds of thousands of username and password combinations – have been hacked. Cyber-experts are now urging users to make sure they’re using tough passwords that haven’t already been stolen. Earlier this year, Google launched a […]
Tiffiani Theisen | Orlando Sentinel | Source URL More than 9 in 10 pornography websites send user data to at least one third party, a new study has found. Google tracks users on nearly 75% of the porn sites studied by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. And going incognito […]
Sara Carter | Source URL A former Google insider claiming the company created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms – in effect targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content – delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the […]
John Murawski | The Wall Street Journal | Source URL U.S. retailers large and small are pressing ahead with testing the use of artificial intelligence to track what products shoppers pick up and automatically bill their accounts when they walk out the door, eliminating the need for a checkout line. […]
British spies want ‘backdoor’ access to encrypted messages on social media to prevent terror threats and child abuse. Officials from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – known as the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance – are meeting in London to discuss being able to get ‘lawful access’ to […]
Proposals from interested vendors are due later this month. Brandi Vincent | NextGov | Source URL The Federal Bureau of Investigations aims to acquire access to a “social media early alerting tool” that will help insiders proactively and reactively monitor how terrorist groups, foreign intelligence services, criminal organizations and other […]
