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| Jun 18, 2026 | A city’s push for facial recognition on public buses ignites debate over security and privacy | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers who appear on a list of b... |
| Feb 18, 2026 | “Free” Surveillance Tech Still Comes At A High And Dangerous Cost | Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The result is predictable: serious accountab... |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Privacy and civil rights groups urge US colleges to end campus surveillance to protect protesters | “Without immediate action, surveillance tools and the data they amass will be used to supercharge the virulent attacks on campus communities,” says the letter, coordinated by the group Fight for the Future. It was signed by 32 groups, inclu... |
| May 23, 2025 | Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns | Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyse data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and put... |
| May 5, 2024 | Surveillance looms over pro-Palestinian campus protests | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
As college students reckon with weeks of pro-Palestinian protests and police activity on their campuses, experts warn they might spend their summer breaks feeling the impacts of ongoing campus surveil... |
| Apr 6, 2024 | NYC to pay $17.5M to settle suit after forcing two women to remove hijabs | NEW YORK: New York City agreed on Friday (Apr 5) to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who were forced to remove their head coverings to be photographed after they were arrested.
The class-action lawsuit was fil... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Politics | As Colorado and other states target disavowed “excited delirium” diagnosis, police groups push back | Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in Colorado and several other states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police in... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | My brain on Ozempic | Redeem now
The sidewalk was empty, so no one could see me crying outside Levain Bakery's soaring glass doors. But there was nothing to shield me from the staff inside watching me, stunned, sobbing, giddy with excitement about what a dr... |
| Oct 18, 2023 | NYC Mayor Adams Uses AI Voice Clone for Multilingual Robocalls | NYC Mayor Adams Uses AI Voice Clone for Multilingual Robocalls
Eric Hal Schwartz on October 18, 2023 at 7:00 am
New York City Mayor Eric Adams deployed a generative AI voice clone of himself speaking multiple languages in a set of robocalls... |
| Oct 11, 2023 | Neighbors app floods police inboxes with alerts that have nothing to do with crimes | Victor Bizar Gómez for The Markup
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The Neighbors app encourages people with Ring cameras to share information to keep their neighborhoods "safe."
Hundreds of law enforcement officers have opted in to receive Neighbors cr... |
| Sep 10, 2023 | NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals | Law NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals
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| Sep 1, 2023 | MTA Website Doles Out Rider History Data With Just A Credit Card Number | We’ve noted for years how there’s no limit of companies and organizations that over-collect data on your daily movement patterns, then fail to adequately secure that data. Whether it’s your mobile phone carrier, your smartphone maker, your ... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City | Enlarge / NYC Mayor Eric Adams holds a press conference with members of the NYPD and Boston Dynamics' Spot.
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| Apr 11, 2023 | Robots deployed to assist New York City police … again | Knightscope’s K5 robot. Knightscope
New York City on Tuesday unveiled several crime-fighting robots designed to assist human police officers.
It’s actually the city’s second attempt at incorporating robocops into its police department after... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Travel
Travel | Here’s how facial recognition is changing travel through U.S. airports | For speedier entry into the U.S., your most important travel tool is now your face.
All three of the Bay Area’s airports are deploying new facial recognition technology, called Simplified Arrival, to screen incoming international passengers... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | NYPD videoing people leaving Drake concert worries privacy advocates | Some audience members leaving a concert by Drake at a Manhattan theater came outside to see a New York Police Department officer filming those filing out, raising concerns from privacy advocates over what would be done with the footage.
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| Dec 8, 2022 | FBI Expresses Concerns About Apple's New iCloud End-to-End Encryption | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 08 December 2022, 09:12 am
Apple's announcement for end-to-end encryption received different reactions from privacy groups, companies, and government authorities.
While privacy advocates celebrate Apple&#... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Alternative Channels for Police Transparency | Law enforcement transparency is a delicate dance. There is a broad consensus among scholars, advocates, policymakers and police themselves that trust in law enforcement requires more transparency. But police and law enforcement agencies rou... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | How New York overengineered its million-dollar vaccine passport | New York’s Excelsior Pass is getting more popular. Since it launched in March, the digital vaccine platform has issued millions of passes, which allow people to display proof of vaccination or negative test results via an app developed by t... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Shoppers Stop sells Crossword Bookstores at Rs 41.62 cr valuation | Retail chain Shoppers Stop on Tuesday said it has closed the sale of a controlling stake in its wholly-owned subsidiary Crossword Bookstores at a gross business valuation of Rs 41.62 crore.
The stake in Crossword Bookstores is being sold to... |
| Jun 30, 2021 | Worldcoin wants to give you cryptocurrency — in exchange for scanning your eyeballs | Details are slowly emerging about a new startup, Worldcoin, that aims to launch a new cryptocurrency that it would distribute to people in exchange for their eye scans. The futuristic-sounding idea has attracted major supporters in Silicon ... |
| Jun 3, 2021 | NYPD’s Sprawling Facial Recognition System Now Has More Than 15,000 Cameras | The New York City Police Department has built a sprawling facial recognition network that may include more than 15,000 surveillance cameras in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, according to a massive crowdsourced investigation by Amnesty ... |
| May 18, 2021 | Only One NYC Mayor Candidate Is Promising to Ban Facial Recognition | All of the major candidates running in the Democratic primary to become New York City’s next mayor have promised to bring some manner of reform to the city’s police department. There are areas of common ground—investing more in mental healt... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Over 1,000 parents sign open letter protesting facial recognition in schools | This morning, Fight for the Future, a nonprofit advocacy group promoting causes related to privacy, censorship, and copyright legislation, published a letter calling for a ban on facial recognition in U.S. schools. The open letter, which is... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Over 1,000 parents sign open letter protesting facial recognition in schools | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Aug 7, 2020 | Here are a few ways GPT-3 can go wrong | Liz O'Sullivan Contributor
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Liz O’Sullivan is a co-founder and VP of Commercial at Arthur, an AI monitoring and explainability company. She is also Technology Director of STOP, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Proj... |
| Jun 6, 2020 | Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent COVID-19 spread | Enlarge / A Daimler electric schoolbus (powered by Proterra) on display at CES 2019.
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| May 8, 2020 | AI Weekly: CDPA bill shows progress on coronavirus-tracking data privacy, but there’s still a ways to go | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| May 8, 2020 | AI Weekly: CDPA bill shows progress on coronavirus-tracking data privacy, but there’s still a ways to go | Contact tracing has quickly emerged as the go-to method for tracking the spread of coronavirus among the general population, but crucial questions surround the most effective, ethical, and legal ways of doing so. New legislation introduced ... |
| Jan 10, 2020 | NYC's Transportation Authority Says It's Doesn't Use Facial Recognition Tech; Activists Say 'Prove It' With Public Records Lawsuit | Like pretty much everyone else, New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is using facial recognition software. Like pretty much everyone else, it doesn't really have any success stories to share. |
| Jan 10, 2020 | NYC's Transportation Authority Says It's Doesn't Use Facial Recognition Tech; Activists Say 'Prove It' With Public Records Lawsuit | Like pretty much everyone else, New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is using facial recognition software. Like pretty much everyone else, it doesn’t really have any success stories to share. |
| Jan 10, 2018 | Amazon to invest Rs 179.25 cr in Shoppers Stop | Retail major Shoppers Stop today said Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC will invest Rs 179.25 crore in the company.
Shoppers Stop’s board has approved issuance of 43.95 lakh equity shares of Rs 5 each at price of Rs 407.78 per piece to ... |
| Sep 19, 2006 | PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invests $3.5M to stop aging | Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former chief executive officer of online payment site, PayPal, said he is investing $3.5 million “to support scientific research into the alleviation and eventual reversal of the debilities caused by aging.”
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| Dyson создаёт человекоподобных роботов для дома, в США возрождают экранопланы. Техдайджест | Отдел новостей 29 мая 2022, 20:15 Dyson создаёт человекоподобных роботов для дома, в США возрождают экранопланы. Техдайджест
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