Monday, December 16, 2024

We’re here to protect you, need it or not.

https://pogowasright.org/schools-using-ai-to-send-police-to-students-homes/

Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students’ Homes

Victor Tangermann reports:

Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves and sending the cops to their homes as a result — with often chaotic and traumatic results.
As the New York Times reports, software being installed on high school students’ school-issued devices tracks every word they type. An algorithm then analyzes the language for evidence of teenagers wanting to harm themselves.
Unsurprisingly, the software can get it wrong by woefully misinterpreting what the students are actually trying to say. A 17-year-old in Neosho, Missouri, for instance, was woken up by the police in the middle of the night.

Read more at The Byte.





All we had was guns and knives…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/technology/school-fight-videos-student-phones.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hk4.R7hc.vHX7olgtFWq3&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

An Epidemic of Vicious School Brawls, Fueled by Student Cellphones

Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in schools across the United States.





Automatic evasion of automatic license plate readers… Seems fair! (Very James Bond)

https://www.wired.com/story/digital-license-plate-jailbreak-hack/

Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets

Digital license plates, already legal to buy in a growing number of states and to drive with nationwide, offer a few perks over their sheet metal predecessors. You can change their display on the fly to frame your plate number with novelty messages, for instance, or to flag that your car has been stolen. Now one security researcher has shown how they can also be hacked to enable a less benign feature: changing a car's license plate number at will to avoid traffic tickets and tolls—or even pin them on someone else.



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