Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China’s Expanding Surveillance State
By: The New York Times Date: June 21, 2022 China’s ambition to collect a staggering amount of personal data from everyday citizens is more expansive than previously known, a Times investigation has found. Phone-tracking devices are now everywhere. The police are creating some of the largest DNA databases in the world. And the authorities […]
ICE spends $7.2 Million to Increase Facial Recognition and Location Tracking of Migrants
By: Business Insider Date: May 2, 2022 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be paying surveillance software company Trust Stamp $7.2 million annually to develop tech to track migrants processed at the southern border, new federal documents show. Trust Stamp’s contract, which was renewed in April, has it providing ICE with 10,000 smartphones that include […]
Ukraine Uses Facial Recognition Software to Identify Russian Soldiers Killed in Combat
By: The Guardian Date: March 24, 2022 Ukraine is using facial recognition software to help identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and track down their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine’s vice-prime minister told the Reuters news service. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice-prime minister who also runs the ministry […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – July 15, 2021
Inside Facebook’s Data Wars Time and again, when peering inside Facebook’s communications and decisions, at the highest levels, they reveal a serious paucity of authenticity and a preoccupation with window dressing. The main driver appears to be how they are perceived by the outside world (please see the plethora of charm offensive adverts near […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – July 8, 2021
Didi’s Removal From China’s App Stores Marks a Growing Crackdown This is significant news for at least three reasons: It conclusively confirms the breakdown of global trust and the accompanying balkanisation of business activities related to algorithms and data – in other words, most growth businesses these days. There has been considerable build […]
Game Over: Chinese Company Deploys Facial Recognition to Limit Youths’ Play
By: New York Times July 8, 2021 For almost every video game restriction, children and teenagers will find a way around it. But the room to maneuver is shrinking in China, where underage players are required to log on using their real names and identification numbers as part of countrywide regulations aimed at […]
This Manual for a Popular Facial Recognition Tool Shows Just How Much the Software Tracks
By: The Markup July 6, 2021 One school using the software saw that a student’s face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week In 2019, the Santa Fe Independent School District in Texas ran a weeklong pilot program with the facial recognition firm AnyVision in its school hallways. With more than 5,000 […]
Civil Rights Organizations Call for Ban on Corporate Use of Facial Recognition
By: The Hill April 14, 2021 A coalition of civil and human rights organizations on Wednesday called for officials on all levels of government to take action toward banning the private and corporate use of facial recognition technology. More than 20 organizations signed the open letter urging a ban similar to one that went […]
America Grapples With Regulating Surveillance Technology
By: The Economist March 9, 2021 AMONG THE most pernicious aspects of the range of surveillance technologies available to the average police force is how they can render the visible invisible. For instance, you would notice if a police officer walked down your street every day, writing down the licence plates of every car. A police […]