surveillance
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Privacy Fears Abound After Uber Eats Delivery Bot Shares Video Footage With LAPD
It’s only been about a year since Uber Eats began deploying food delivery robots throughout select parts of Los Angeles and, already, concerns have been raised that the squat little automatons could become a police surveillance tool. 404 Media reports that a company called Serve Robotics, which contracts out its delivery robots to Uber Eats,…
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FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that an unknown federal agency had breached official White House policy and used secretive methods to conduct a business deal with the NSO Group, a blacklisted spyware vendor known for selling powerful surveillance tools. The agency in question not only brazenly disobeyed the government’s official policy, but…
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AI System Helped Cops Identify a Drug Trafficker Just by Analysing His Driving Patterns
Police in New York recently managed to identify and apprehend a drug trafficker seemingly by magic. The perp in question, David Zayas, was travelling through the small upstate town of Scarsdale when he was pulled over by Westchester County police. When cops searched Zayas’ vehicle they found a large amount of crack cocaine, a gun,…
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Several Major Australian Stadiums Reportedly Using Facial Recognition Technology
An investigation from Choice has revealed that several Australian stadiums may be using facial recognition technology.