Search Results for ‘node/fbi’ — 7 articles
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Rights groups including ACLU withdraw from talks with industry over face tracking standards, citing core disagreements
Nine public interest and civil liberties groups, among them the ACLU, have withdrawn from talks with industry associations over setting limits on face recognition technology in marketing and consumer tracking. The NYT reports:
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Cops will soon be able to read our iris scans through reflections in our car mirrors
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Biometrics Center have won a gold Edison Award for their "Unconstrained Biometric Identification" technology, which enables real-time identification through futuristic iris scanning and facial recognition.
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Militarized police can purchase “187” murder t-shirts at Urban Shield trainings
On the weekend of September 5, 2014, the city of Oakland will play host to Alameda County’s 8th annual festival for paramilitary police, called Urban Shield. A private corporation called Cytel Group organizes the events with funds from the Department of Homeland Security. Thus far they've been held in the Bay Area, Boston, and Texas, but the CEO of the for-profit Cytel says he has plans to expand into the Middle East and Africa.
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Obama 2004 vs. Obama 2012
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