Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.
Surveillance

Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.

Hoping to keep surveillance capitalists from capitalizing on your face? Safeguard your selfies with a digital countermeasure. Researchers devised a program that subtly alters portrait photos to confuse face recognition models without distorting the image to the human eye.

March 11, 20202 min read
Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.
Surveillance

Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.

Hoping to keep surveillance capitalists from capitalizing on your face? Safeguard your selfies with a digital countermeasure. Researchers devised a program that subtly alters portrait photos to confuse face recognition models without distorting the image to the human eye.

March 11, 20202 min read
Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.
Surveillance

Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.

AI may not steal your job, but it can tell the boss when you’re slacking. Drishti, a startup based in Palo Alto and Bengaluru, tracks the productivity of industrial workers by recognizing their actions on the assembly line.

March 4, 20201 min read
Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.
Surveillance

Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.

AI may not steal your job, but it can tell the boss when you’re slacking. Drishti, a startup based in Palo Alto and Bengaluru, tracks the productivity of industrial workers by recognizing their actions on the assembly line.

March 4, 20201 min read
Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers
Surveillance

Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers

Police in the U.S. routinely use AI to track cars with little accountability to the public. Documents obtained by Wired revealed just how intensively police in Los Angeles, California, have been using automatic license plate readers.

February 19, 20201 min read
Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers
Surveillance

Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers

Police in the U.S. routinely use AI to track cars with little accountability to the public. Documents obtained by Wired revealed just how intensively police in Los Angeles, California, have been using automatic license plate readers.

February 19, 20201 min read
Nowhere to Hide: How police in London and Moscow use face recognition
Surveillance

Nowhere to Hide: How police in London and Moscow use face recognition

Real-time face recognition has become standard operating procedure for cops in a few cities, in both authoritarian and democratic countries. After years of trials, police departments in Moscow and London are using face recognition to scan the streets for suspected criminals.

February 5, 20201 min read
Nowhere to Hide: How police in London and Moscow use face recognition
Surveillance

Nowhere to Hide: How police in London and Moscow use face recognition

Real-time face recognition has become standard operating procedure for cops in a few cities, in both authoritarian and democratic countries. After years of trials, police departments in Moscow and London are using face recognition to scan the streets for suspected criminals.

February 5, 20201 min read
Steal Your Face: How Clearview AI's face recognition system works
Surveillance

Steal Your Face: How Clearview AI's face recognition system works

What if you could identify just about anyone from a photo? A controversial startup is making this possible. Hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agencies are using a face ID service that matches photos against a database of billions of images.

January 22, 20201 min read
Steal Your Face: How Clearview AI's face recognition system works
Surveillance

Steal Your Face: How Clearview AI's face recognition system works

What if you could identify just about anyone from a photo? A controversial startup is making this possible. Hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agencies are using a face ID service that matches photos against a database of billions of images.

January 22, 20201 min read
Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019
Surveillance

Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019

An international wave of anti-surveillance sentiment pushed back against the proliferation of face recognition systems.

December 24, 20192 min read
Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019
Surveillance

Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019

An international wave of anti-surveillance sentiment pushed back against the proliferation of face recognition systems.

December 24, 20192 min read
Neighborhood Watchers: Reports charge Ring with mishandling customer data.
Surveillance

Neighborhood Watchers: Reports charge Ring with mishandling customer data.

Smart doorbell maker Ring has built its business by turning neighborhoods into surveillance networks. Now the company is drawing fire for using private data without informing customers and sharing data with police.

December 11, 20192 min read
Neighborhood Watchers: Reports charge Ring with mishandling customer data.
Surveillance

Neighborhood Watchers: Reports charge Ring with mishandling customer data.

Smart doorbell maker Ring has built its business by turning neighborhoods into surveillance networks. Now the company is drawing fire for using private data without informing customers and sharing data with police.

December 11, 20192 min read
What the Watchbot Sees: How Knightscope security robots use AI for surveillance
Surveillance

What the Watchbot Sees: How Knightscope security robots use AI for surveillance

Knightscope’s security robots look cute. But these cone-headed automatons, which serve U.S. police departments and businesses, are serious surveillance machines.

November 20, 20192 min read

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