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5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance

San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the police department from using face recognition....

How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?

This week’s big news in tech: Uber behaved badly. A massive document dump reveals that it knowingly broke laws to roll out its services...

A Rape Survivor Gave Police Her DNA. They Linked Her to Another Crime

In 2016, a rape survivor voluntarily provided her DNA to San Francisco law enforcement officers so that her attacker might be brought to justice....

A Year In, Biden’s China Policy Looks a Lot Like Trump’s

On December 10, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions, including a bar on American investments, on SenseTime, a Chinese artificial intelligence company accused of...

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos

Clearview AI has stoked controversy by scraping the web for photos and applying facial recognition to give police and others an unprecedented ability to...

A Global Smart-City Competition Highlights China’s Rise in AI

Four years ago, organizers created the international AI City Challenge to spur the development of artificial intelligence for real-world scenarios like counting cars...

As Coronavirus Variants Spread, the US Struggles to Keep Up

It’s not a unique quirk, but like many other Covid-19 tests, Helix’s hunts for three snippets of the virus’s genome. One of those snippets...

There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain

One afternoon in the fall of 2019, in a grand old office building near the Arc de Triomphe, I was buzzed through an unmarked...

The Next Target for a Facial Recognition Ban? New York

Civil rights activists have successfully pushed for bans on police use of facial recognition in cities like Oakland, San Francisco, and Somerville, Massachusetts....

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

The company’s software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.

China And Russia Hate Indo-Pacific’s New Collaborative Surveillance Webs

Russia and China fear collaborative ocean surveillance networks. U.S. Coast Guard The annual meeting of...

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