surveillance
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Ebay Seller Offers $100,000 Stingray Device So You Can Track Your Friends and Enemies
You can find a lot of weird shit for sale on eBay, including, apparently, a used police Harris Stingray that could allow you to intercept the cellular traffic of your friends and enemies. The Stingray is a widely used law enforcement tool that allows police to intercept cell phone signals and data. Known technically as…
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Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You’re Hungover
The Brazilian wing of Burger King announced a surveillance technology marketing stunt this week called the “Hangover Whopper,” celebrating the booze-filled days between Christmas and New Year’s with facial recognition. All you have to do is hold your bleary-eyed visage up to a camera, and the company says its face-scanning software will judge how hungover…
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The 9 U.S. Stadiums Already Using Facial Recognition at Games
When the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team introduced its new “Go-Ahead Entry” facial recognition authentication method last week, it was intended to decrease wait times and increase efficiency. In reality, according to Axios, it did just the opposite. Glitches in the system accidentally picked up the faces of others waiting in lines, forcing security to create…
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New Orleans’ Facial Recognition Systems Led to Exactly Zero Arrests in Nine Months
Police in New Orleans have been using facial recognition for the better part of a year, but the tech hasn’t had much of an impact on the city’s violent crime crisis. NOLA’s recently published quarterly public safety review, compiled by consulting firm Datalytics, shows that between October 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023—roughly nine months—there…