Facial Recognition Systems in the US
January 3 2024A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. (This, of course, can all...
Read moreAI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
December 29 2023Wow:
To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos...
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Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
December 26 2023Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.
Read morePolice Get Medical Records without a Warrant
December 18 2023More unconstrained surveillance:
Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier...
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Surveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks
December 15 2023This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.
Read moreSurveillance by the US Postal Service
December 13 2023This is not about mass surveillance of mail, this is about the sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves: To track down an...
Read moreSpying through Push Notifications
December 7 2023When you get a push notification on your Apple or Google phone, those notifications go through Apple and Google servers. Which means that those companies can spy on them—either...
Read moreAI and Mass Spying
December 5 2023Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car,...
Read moreSecret White House Warrantless Surveillance Program
November 27 2023There seems to be no end to warrantless surveillance:
According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade...
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Using Generative AI for Surveillance
November 20 2023Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it...
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