Inevitable.
https://www.bespacific.com/flock-has-a-powerful-new-ai-tool-for-police/
Flock
Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police
404
Media:
“Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage.
WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by
some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license
plates. Vehicle
surveillance giant Flock
Safety has
told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize,
identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that
does both,
an artificial
intelligence tool
for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their
patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned. Drawing on a network
of cameras that logs the movements of drivers in more than 6,000
communities, the tool can pick out potential witnesses by how often
their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver’s
“associates” from the cameras they pass together. Because the
system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and
commercial identity records, those plates can be turned into names,
home addresses, and relatives. It can search for people in an area
drawn on a map based on nothing more than a physical description.
The software, originally called Nightshift and more recently renamed
OS Investigate, ships with 69 prewritten prompts that officers can
select, review, or edit, and then submit to the AI. Officers can
also input prompts of their own. The suggested prompts sit in a
cache of more than 450 files that WIRED found on Flock’s own
website, served by its login pages to anyone who loaded them. The
code describes 45 tools at the AI’s disposal, giving it access to
plate scans and camera metadata, arrest records, case files, dispatch
logs, ballistics results, and commercial databases that contain
Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email
addresses, relatives and associates. Flock says it is testing the
product with a small group of law enforcement partners and describes
it as still in development, with capabilities that may not reflect
what it eventually sells. It arrives as the company faces bipartisan
political pressure,
a growing
record of
officers caught misusing its platform, and a wave
of vandalism that
has left cameras sawed off and lenses painted over in cities across
the country…”
See
also TechSpot:
“…Flock’s
fastest-growing business is 60 mph police drones that can read
license plates from the sky.
Privacy groups warn that flying plate readers could expand
surveillance far beyond roadside cameras.. Flock is best known for
the roadside cameras now operating in more than 6,000 US communities.
But the company is increasingly betting on drones that can be
dispatched to emergency scenes before police officers arrive. A
Flock spokesperson said the firm has secured more than 200 DFR
customers, including police departments and private companies. It’s
also ramping up production of its US-designed drones, which will be
built in Georgia. In an interview with the All-In podcast, CEO
Garrett Langley explained that the drones sit in climate-controlled
rooftop docks, usually on police precincts or fire departments.
“When a 911 call happens, instead of sending an officer first, you
can send a drone,” he said…”
Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of
the press; or the right of the people to use nudify apps.
https://thenextweb.com/news/xai-minnesota-nudify-ban-doj-injunction-hearing
The
Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban
The US
Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of
Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s challenge to a
Minnesota law that bans AI “nudification” tools. A federal judge
heard arguments on Wednesday and said he would rule soon, according
to Courthouse
News Service.
xAI
wants a preliminary injunction to block the law while its lawsuit
proceeds. The company sued
Minnesota in July, arguing the statute violates the
First Amendment. The case is X.AI LLC v. Keith Ellison, the state’s
attorney general, before Judge Donovan Frank in the District of
Minnesota.
The
Justice Department filed a statement
of interest on 18 August. It did not take a side on
the injunction itself. Instead, it argued that the Minnesota law
reaches further than federal law. It also warned that heavy state
rules could slow the AI industry.
Clever
approach?
https://thenextweb.com/news/australia-news-bargaining-incentive-passes-parliament
Meta,
Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law whether
they carry news or not
Australia’s
parliament passed the News Bargaining Incentive on Thursday, closing
a five-year argument that began when Meta worked out it could avoid
paying for news by simply not carrying any. The new law removes that
option.
Platforms with
a significant search or social media service in Australia and more
than A$250mn (about $178mn) in local advertising revenue now face a
levy of 2.5% on that advertising revenue, whether or not they host a
single news story. When the government first set out the scheme, the
rate was 2.25%, and the list of names has grown since.
… The
tax is not really meant to be collected, but it is
designed as a price on refusing to negotiate, and a platform can
reduce or eliminate it by striking commercial agreements with at
least eight Australian news businesses.
Tools &
Techniques.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/you-can-earn-your-google-al-professional-certificate-for-free/
You
can earn your Google Al Professional Certificate for free - and I
highly recommend it
After
working through the first few modules, I had mixed feelings about
recommending the
course to earn a Google AI Professional Certificate,
mostly because it starts with some inconveniences and annoyances.
But after completing the course and considering what you get going
through the whole thing, I highly recommend it.
