Ring kills herd safety deal after Super Bowl ad uproar

Widespread protests in Iran have exposed Tehran’s brutal tactics on the streets, where state authorities have killed thousands of protesters since early January, and extreme measures to block access to the global internet.

As I did Do it over and over again In the past, the Iranian regime cut off the country’s population from the global Internet during the recent anti-government uprising. But it also closed access to the country’s intranet, known as the National Information Network, which new research finds has become A mechanism for continuous and comprehensive monitoring This may be the only way Iranians can connect to the Internet.

The last remaining major nuclear weapons treaty between the United States and Russia has just expired. So what will replace it? Artificial intelligence, of course. At least that’s what some researchers think. Combined with satellite images and human auditors, AI-powered systems could replace in-person inspections of countries’ nuclear facilities. There are clearly flaws in this plan.

Cryptocurrencies may only be 16 years old, but they have already become the preferred form of cash for the world’s worst people. Cryptocurrency tracking company Chainasis revealed this week Blockchain-based transactions associated with the sale of human beings Rates of forced prostitution and fraud have nearly doubled over the past year, with transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Chain analysis researchers say this amount is likely an underestimate.

While the Trump administration says it is working to scale back increased immigration enforcement in Minnesota, damage continues to be done to that state’s US court system. Wire analysis It found that court filings aimed at giving people a chance to be released from ICE custody skyrocketed in January, leaving U.S. attorneys stretched to the breaking point and leaving people in jail beyond the time they should have been released.

Meanwhile, Customs and Border Protection Signed a $225,000 deal with Clearview AI Which gives Border Patrol intelligence units access to the company’s facial recognition technology.

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Ring again pushes back on the public’s aversion to mass surveillance. in advertisement First reported by The Verge, Ring said that after a “thorough review,” it decided that its plan to integrate its sprawling network of privately owned surveillance cameras with Flock Safety, a company that sells license plate reader technology to police departments across the US, “will require significantly more time and resources than anticipated.”

“The integration never went live, so no Ring customer videos were sent to Flock Safety,” Ring said.

The cancellation of the Flock partnership comes just days after the company aired an announcement during Super Bowl It features a new Search Party feature that “uses artificial intelligence to help families find lost dogs.” Many people reacted to this feature by asking, “If a search team can find missing dogs, surely they’ll be used to hunt people down too, right?”

Ring, which has been owned by Amazon since 2018, has drawn condemnation from privacy advocates for years over it Partnership with police departments And a tool in the Neighbors app allows authorities to get surveillance footage directly from people who have installed Ring cameras instead of any judicially-controlled process, such as obtaining a warrant. Company Eliminate the tool in early 2024. Flock has sparked similar outrage over its surveillance network which, according to 404 mediawas covertly exploited by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of its relentless pursuit of removing immigrants from US soil.

Facial recognition technology is not having a great moment in American society: nor are Democratic lawmakers he asked ICE stops using facial recognition technology on the streets, and ICE itself continues to do so panic About potential people using it on their agents.

This “dynamic political environment,” said an internal Meta memo obtained by The Times, is one in which Meta may update its smart glasses to include a new facial recognition feature that has been referred to internally as “name tag.”