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Google closes its AI ethics council after facing pressure from employees to remove conservative member
After the council was formed, employees immediately petitioned Google to remove conservative and Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James.
Some Google workers want Google to remove conservative Kay Coles James from an artificial intelligence ethics panel
They suggest that if James continues to be on the panel discrimination against marginalized groups will be implanted into the company’s artificial intelligence software.
The US government is using images of citizens without their consent, including dead people and exploited minors, to test facial recognition tech
People are being captured at their most vulnerable positions and their images are being used without knowledge or consent.
Outrage over German Police depending on Amazon’s cloud service for storing body cam videos
Storing such highly sensitive information with a private US company posed an ‘incalculable risk.’
Amazon’s Creepy New Verification Process Requires Some Sellers to Record Facial Videos
Amazon is requiring some new sellers to record five-second videos of their faces which are then stored on Amazon’s servers.