#surveillance

Steve Eimers, known for road-safety advocacy, faced camera destruction after highlighting concerns about automatic license plate reader placement near guardrails.

Police departments are rapidly adopting AI tools for routine tasks, but history suggests the consequences could undermine due process and accountability.

Meredith Whittaker argues that treating AI systems as friends or conscious beings obscures their real privacy and surveillance risks.

Internal government tests reveal facial AI systems misidentify Sub-Saharan African children as adults by up to 4.6 years on average, yet the UK will deploy the technology at its borders starting 2027.

Meta tested facial recognition software from Rank One Computing, a defense contractor, in its Ray-Ban smart glasses app before removing the dormant system.

Unionized engineers at the Times challenge management's deployment of performance-tracking AI systems, alleging unfair labor practices and contract violations.

DHS, FBI, and fusion centers are surveilling anti-technology activism under a new category that conflates protest with violent extremism.

Twitch's top political streamer spends his limited downtime battling AI-generated accounts and upgrades devices on his civil rights lawyers' orders.

Disney has deployed facial recognition at its California theme parks, framing it as opt-in while acknowledging visitors may be imaged regardless.