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Submission + - Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition To Authoritarian Regimes (buzzfeednews.com)

Submitted by popcornfan679
popcornfan679 writes: Clearview AI has been touting a “rapid international expansion” to prospective clients using a map that highlights how it either has expanded, or plans to expand, to at least 22 more countries, including the United Arab Emirates, a country historically hostile to political dissidents, and Qatar and Singapore, the penal codes of which criminalize homosexuality.

Submission + - Ring Told People to Snitch on Their Neighbors in Exchange for Free Stuff (vice.com)

Submitted by popcornfan679
popcornfan679 writes: "Ring, Amazon’s home security company, has encouraged people to form their own “Digital Neighborhood Watch” groups that report crime in exchange for free or discounted Ring products, according to an internal company slide presentation obtained by Motherboard.

The slide presentation—which is titled “Digital Neighborhood Watch” and was created in 2017, according to Ring—tells people that if they set up these groups, report all suspicious activity to police, and post endorsements of Ring products on social media, then they can get discount codes for Ring products and unspecified Ring “swag.”"

Submission + - Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant (vice.com) 1

Submitted by popcornfan679
popcornfan679 writes: "When police partner with Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance camera company, they get access to the “Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal,” an interactive map that allows officers to request footage directly from camera owners. Police don’t need a warrant to request this footage, but they do need permission from camera owners.

Emails and documents obtained by Motherboard reveal that people aren’t always willing to provide police with their Ring camera footage. However, Ring works with law enforcement and gives them advice on how to persuade people to give them footage."

Submission + - US Cities Are Helping People Buy Amazon Surveillance Cameras Using Taxpayer Mone (vice.com)

Submitted by popcornfan679
popcornfan679 writes: "Cities and towns around the country are paying Ring up to $100,000 to subsidize the purchase of the company’s surveillance cameras for private residents. For every dollar committed by a city per these agreements, Ring will match it. This motivates cities to pledge tens of thousands of dollars to a tech giant that is building a private, nationwide surveillance network—which Amazon is using, in part, to secure the packages it delivers."

Submission + - A Second U.S. City Has Banned Facial Recognition (vice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Somerville, Massachusetts just became the second U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition in public space. San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition by police and city government agencies a month ago.

Submission + - This Artist Is Hacking Google to Create Surreal Street View Art (vice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Jason Isolini worked as a contractor for Google Maps, capturing 360-images inside businesses and uploading them. Now, instead of capturing true-to-live panorama images, Isolini uploading surreal collages that subvert the purpose of Google Maps: to bring users from their current location to a business.

Submission + - Slack Warns Investors It's a Target for Nation-State Hacking

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "As Slack prepares to go public, the company is warning potential investors that it's a target for malicious attacks from “sophisticated organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported actors,” according to an SEC filing published today."
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

Submission + - How Amazon Helped Cops Set Up a Package Theft Sting Operation (vice.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "In response to Amazon packages being stolen from people's doorsteps, police departments around the country have set up sting operations that use fake packages bugged with GPS trackers to find and arrest people who steal packages. Internal emails and documents obtained by Motherboard via a public records request show how Amazon and one police department partnered to set up one of these operations."

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