All posts tagged "surveillance"
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2.4KSecurityInsurance Companies Using Drones and Satellites to Spy On Homeowners
It’s no secret that insurance companies would do pretty much anything to detect fraud but now they seem to be crossing some...
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3.1KSecurityCustoms and Border Protection Spent Millions On AI Surveillance Tool to Detect “Sentiment and Emotion” On Social Media
The new way customs agents are trying to scan travelers? A multi-million dollar AI surveillance tool that scans the social media of...
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9.6KFutureNew Report: Scientists Can Now Use WiFi to ‘See’ People Through Walls
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University managed a breakthrough that will make privacy-conscious people turn their homes into a Better Call Saul-style Faraday...
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7.4KFutureHow AI-Powered ALPR Cameras Scan Millions of Cars to Flag Potential “Criminals”
You probably knew the authorities are using AI-powered cameras to scan for license plates linked to criminals but did you know they’re...
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1.3KFutureBreaking: Montana Is the First US State to Totally Ban TikTok
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte made history on May 17, signing legislation to ban Tiktok from his home state of Montana – the...
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6.6KSecurityTikTok Admits Their Employees Used the App to Track Journalists Reporting On Their Ties to China
This is a story you don’t read everyday but one you should remember at all times: a social media company admits that...
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3.2KSecurityWatch Live: Edward Snowden Launches Global Encryption Day
Privacy experts, civil society organizations and tech companies are launching Global Encryption Day and using Edward Snowden, the world’s most famous whistleblower,...
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7.2KSecurityThe Amazon Astro Robot Watches Everything You Do, Uses Facial Recognition Too
Creepy or hilarious? The recently unveiled Amazon Astro Robot is apparently designed to watch everything you do, using facial recognition on your...
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7.5KSecurityIsrael Passes Law to Track the Phones Of COVID-19 Infected People
As the world is going through an unprecedented lockdown, more and more extreme measures are being adopted in order to stop the...
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7.9KSecurityHacker Creates Clothes That Feed Fake Data To License Plate Reader Systems
We’re heading into a future where we’re facing computer vision algorithms pretty much everywhere in our lives and our cars have already...
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2.5KSecurityAmazon Is Allegedly Telling Police How To Get Video Recordings Without A Warrant
Ring, the company that makes intelligent bells owned by Amazon is allegedly teaching the police how to get the security footage recorded...
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1.9KSecurityCambridge, Massachusetts Also Plans To Ban Facial Recognition Technology
As the concerns over facial recognition technology and privacy grow, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts is also taking steps towards prohibiting its...
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2.8KSmart LifeFujifilm Surveillance Camera Is Capable Of 40x Optical Zoom
Fujifilm has now officially entered the surveillance camera market with its Fujifilm SX800, a long-range camera that comes with a built-in lens. ...
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3.1KSecurityNew Chinese Surveillance Tool Identifies People by Their Walk
China has no less than 170 million CCTV cameras in use across the country, with an additional 400 million planned for the...
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3.1KSecurityAI Can Identify People in Surveillance Footage by Height, Clothing Color and Gender
Scientists in India used deep learning techniques and Microsoft’s COCO dataset to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to search for a...
