Paranoia
or common sense?
When
convenience meets surveillance: AI at the corner store
… Before
patrons can enter the basic convenience store at the corner of South
38th Street and Pacific Avenue, a camera under a red awning will take
a picture and use artificial intelligence (AI) to decide whether the
image matches any in a database of known robbers and shoplifters at
that location.
“That’s
a privacy violation because you should be notified about it,”
Diharce said on a recent morning.
… It’s now deactivated after a test last
month, but when it’s turned back on, a sign at the front of the
store will notify customers that facial recognition technology is in
use, and a speaker will ask customers to look at the camera. The
door won’t unlock if someone is wearing a mask or if the person has
been previously flagged for criminal activity by in-store
camera footage.
… The platform is not connected to a criminal
database, so a store manager must flag a suspected shoplifter’s
image to receive a notification when the person approaches the store
again. Names and personal data aren’t gathered by the system, and
the company recommends its users only store images of nonflagged
customers for 24-48 hours, while suspected shoplifters are kept in
the database.
Perspective.
The
T-Shaped Factor: An Exposure to Tech in Law School
Via
LLRX
–
The
T-Shaped Factor: An Exposure to Tech in Law School –
Saba
Samanian is
a recent graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School. She provides her
perspective on the future of the legal profession concerning the
intersection of law, technology, access to justice, and her
responsibility to be technically competent as she enters the
profession.
Perspective.
Nielsen
reports a record half a trillion on-demand music streams in U.S. so
far this year
Music
streaming services have already delivered a new high of half a
trillion (507.7 billion) on-demand streams in the first half of 2019,
according to Nielsen’s
mid-year Music Report released
this week. This record number — an increase of 31.6% over the
first half of last year — was attributed to the success of singles
and albums from Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Halsey, Khalid, BTS,
Lil Nas X, and Bad Bunny, among other factors.
For
example, the report also noted the outsized impact of TikTok and its
global audience of 500 million monthly users.
“No
emerging app helped break more songs in 2019 than TikTok,” Nielsen
said.
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Lil
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social media platform becomes a label.
Wally, in a nutshell.
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