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Smart Helmets With Face Recognition Are Being Used to Police COVID Restrictions
The helmets can detect people’s temperature and criminal history at a distance.
Religious Freedom Commission Finds China Uses Extensive Surveillance to Monitor and Suppress Christians
Christians in China are being persecuted and monitored with invasive technology.
Facebook Agrees to Pay Revised $650M to Settle Face Tracking Lawsuit
Facebook used users photos without permission.
China Has Been Spying on Xinjiang Citizens for Longer Than Had Been Anticipated, Research Shows
The “digital gulags” of Uighur citizens has been long-documented.
Uganda’s Uptake of Huawei’s “Safe Cities” Surveillance Initiative Is Getting a Foothold
A Trojan horse from China.
California Law Enforcement Agency Refuses to Publish Police Training Manuals, Citing Copyright
The law states they should be open to the public online.
Detroit Man Wrongly Arrested by Facial Recognition Tech
People are starting to pay attention to the rise of face recognition tech.
AI Pixelated Image Reversal Could Soon Be an Easy Accomplishment
Pixelation is a bad form of attempting privacy.
EU Questions the Legality of Face-Scraping Analytics Company Clearview AI
If Clearview AI was found to be illegal, it would hardly be surprising.
Tool That Lets Users Search the Internet by Faces Gets Privacy Scrutiny
Critics say it could help stalkers and increase cyber surveillance.
It Somehow Took the George Floyd Protests to Get Big Tech to Pull Back on Facial Recognition Tech
IBM, Amazon and Microsoft are rethinking whether they want to offer surveillance tech.
How to Easily Encrypt Your Files When Using Cloud Storage, so Not Even the Provider Can Snoop
?This is for those that want to use easy cloud storage but want to keep their files private.
