Smart cameras that can track pedestrians’, motorists’ and cyclists’ movements are being installed in Australia, and will allow traffic patterns to be stopped and allowed automatically.
The technology is part of a research program at Melbourne University, called Australian …
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The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, urging him to halt the sale of facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies this week. The worry, according to the roughly forty civil …
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The Chinese government has begun assigning Chinese citizens credit scores in an effort to build what it calls, a culture of “sincerity.” The government will assign a score to individuals and that score will either increase or decrease based …
Continue ReadingThe Senate passed a bill reauthorizing section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), sending it to the president’s desk for signature. The president is expected to approve it.
Section 702 of FISA allows the U.S. intelligence community to …
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