iSpeech Sens. Blumenthal, Cassidy and Warren say questions remain unanswered on the tech giant’s health-care project known as ‘Project Nightingale’ Rob Copeland | The Wall Street Journal | Source URL A bipartisan trio of U.S. senators pushed again for answers on Google’s controversial “Project Nightingale,” saying the search giant evaded […]
iSpeech Derrick Broze | The Conscious Resistance | Source URL Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo have announced a call for $8.5 million in funding for new “technological enhancements”, including working with Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera and Shotspotter. Journalist Derrick Broze shared these concerns with Houston […]
iSpeech MassPrivate I | Source URL What does the Church of Scientology and Airbnb have in common? If you answered secret risk assessments and personality tests, then give yourself a gold star. If you have you rented an Airbnb in the past six years, the odds are pretty high that […]
iSpeech Activist Post | Source URL San Francisco – Schools across the country are increasingly using technology to spy on students at home, at school, and on social media. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a new Surveillance Self-Defense guide for students and their parents, so they can learn […]
Text to Speech John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute | Source URL “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, […]
TTS Demo Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge | Source URL In yet more absurdity and confirmation that Edward Snowden was never an “enemy of the state” — as top intelligence officials and some congressional leaders have charged for years — it’s been revealed that the latest National Security Agency (NSA) program to analyze logs of […]
iSpeech Garfield Benjamin | Solent University | The Conversation | Source URL The UK is currently witnessing a tug of war over facial recognition. On the streets of London and in South Wales, live systems have been deployed by the police, supported by the UK government. But in the Scottish […]
iSpeech.org Drew Harwell, Erin Cox | The Washington Post | Source URL U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been permitted to run facial-recognition searches on millions of Maryland driver’s license photos without first seeking state or court approval, state officials said – access that goes far beyond what other […]
Text to Speech Voices Joe Pinkstone | The Daily Mail | Source URL Chinese companies specialising in facial recognition have upgraded the technology to identify people wearing masks in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Chinese company SenseTime, described as ‘the most valuable AI startup in the world’ and worth […]
text to speech Jordain Carney | The Hill | Source URL Momentum is growing in Congress to reject the Trump administration’s request to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program. Lawmakers have until March 15 to reauthorize expiring provisions under the USA Freedom Act, including a controversial phone records program known as […]
iSpeech.org Zack Budryk | The Hill | Source URL A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program that accessed American citizens’ domestic phone calls and text messages resulted in only one investigation between 2015 and 2019 despite costing $100 million, a newly declassified study found. The report, which was produced by […]
Text to Speech Voices Alfred Ng | cNet | Source URL A technology used in a number of prisons is tracking students now too. Teachers often lament that phones can be a distraction in classrooms. Some governments have even banned phones outright in schools. But a few school administrations see phones […]
