An abundance of evil doers? How would they describe their intent?
Amended Clearview AI Biometric Privacy Suit Names Additional Retail Defendants
Christina Tabacco reports:
Late last week the plaintiffs, a half-dozen Illinois residents as well as a Californian and a New Yorker, filed an amended complaint against Clearview AI Inc., its leaders, an affiliated company, and retailers who purportedly used its searchable biometric database. The 60-page revised filing says that the facial recognition software company and its founders “developed their technology to invade the privacy of the American public for their own profit.”
The amended complaint adds AT&T, Kohl’s, Walmart, Best Buy, Albertson’s and The Home Depot as additional defendants in the ongoing litigation.
Read more on Law Street Media.
An APP for really cheap transportation!
https://www.databreaches.net/honda-admits-hackers-could-unlock-car-doors-start-engines/
Honda Admits Hackers Could Unlock Car Doors, Start Engines
Ionut Arghire reports:
Honda has confirmed that researchers were indeed able to hack the remote keyless entry system of certain Honda vehicles to unlock the doors and start the engine.
Over the weekend, security researchers Kevin2600 and Wesley Li from Star-V Lab published information on a security bug they identified in the rolling codes mechanism of the remote keyless system of Honda vehicles, which allowed them to open car doors without the key fob present.
Read more at Security Week.
Perhaps something is lost in translation?
China’s court AI reaches every corner of justice system, advising judges and streamlining punishment
Artificial intelligence has been used in all corners of China’s legal system and has a role in every verdict, according to the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing.
“The smart court SoS (system of systems) now connects to the desk of every working judge across the country,” said Xu Jianfeng, director of the supreme court’s information centre in a report published on Tuesday in Strategic Study of CAE, an official journal run by the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
The system, powered by machine learning technology, automatically screens court cases for references, recommends laws and regulations, drafts legal documents and alters perceived human errors, if any, in a verdict.
… As required by the supreme court, a judge must consult AI on every case. If the judge rejects the machine’s recommendation, the machine demands a written explanation for records and auditing.
Critics say judges adhere to the AI recommendation to save the trouble of challenging the system, even though the artificial intelligence might select less suitable reference material or law for the case.
We really really really want the video from your cameras.
Green Bay bar nearly loses liquor license over broken surveillance cameras
A Green Bay bar nearly lost its liquor license due to some of its surveillance cameras not working.
Police say the cameras could’ve captured a shooting, but city officials agreed to renew the bar’s license after the owner said he’d fix them.
According to city records Action 2 News obtained last week, on several occasions the owner of the Bay Bar and Lounge at 805 Klaus Street failed to provide police with surveillance video.
Yet, the owner Jason Cowser and his supporters say that the bar was being unfairly targeted.
… According to documents, Cowser entered a stipulation agreement with police in November of 2018 to provide access to surveillance video when officers requested.
Cowser reportedly failed to do so on three occasions and received two citations.
When his liquor license renewal came up in May, city officials sought to block it citing the surveillance camera issue.
Two of his eight cameras weren’t working, according to police.
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Amazon’s Ring gave a record amount of doorbell footage to the government in 2021
Zack Whittaker reports:
Ring, the maker of internet-connected video doorbells and security cameras, said in its latest transparency report that it turned over a record amount of doorbell footage and other information to U.S. authorities last year.
The Amazon-owned company said in two biannual reports covering 2021 that it received 3,147 legal demands, an increase of about 65% on the year earlier, up from about 1,900 legal demands in 2020.
More than 85% of the legal demands processed were by way of court-issued search warrants, allowing Ring to turn over both information about a Ring user and video footage from those accounts.
Read more at TechCrunch.
h/t, Joe Cadillic, who also points us to this coverage from Sam Biddle:
In response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, Amazon stated that it has provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone.
Read more at The Intercept.
Summer reading. Just published so I had to request my local library purchase a copy. Addresses a number of interesting topics.
https://www.wired.com/story/lambda-david-musgrave-book/
The Summer's Best Read Is About AI, Surveillance, and Tiny Aliens
A NOVICE POLICE officer assigned to watch over a refugee group tries to figure out whether the refugees have been framed for terrorism—and where the real killers are lurking. Technically, this is an accurate description of the plot of David Musgrave’s debut novel, Lambda. Sounds like a pretty straightforward potboiler, right? But from its first page, Lambda is up to something weirder and more unwieldy, ditching a linear narrative and setting the story in an alternate-universe Britain where you can get in trouble with the cops for damaging a talking toothbrush.
In Lambda’s bizarro-world 2019, advances have been made in artificial intelligence to the point that “sentient objects” have been granted rights, including said toothbrush, aka the ToothFriendIV. Meanwhile, the police test out an AI system that will both accuse someone of a crime and go ahead and assassinate them, although the government prefers to call this mitigation, neutralization, deactivation, or closure of agency. It may sound like a Philip K. Dick pastiche, but Musgrave’s debut is more ambitious than the tropes it borrows, arranging them into original, arresting literary sci-fi.
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