Aaron Mackey of EFF writes: Despite rebranding a federal program that surveils the social media activities of immigrants and foreign visitors to a more benign name, the government agreed to spend more than $100 million to continue monitoring people’s online activities, records disclosed to EFF show. Thousands of pages of government procurement records and related…
Category: Surveillance
Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You
Todd Feathers reports: A brand new way of being surveilled could be coming to a store near you—a facial recognition system designed to detect when retail workers have anomalous interactions with customers. About a month ago, Israel-based Corsight AI began offering its global clients access to a new service aimed at rooting out what the…
New app uses smart glasses to tell you everything about strangers by looking at them
Kyland Hall reports: A group of South Bend entrepreneurs have developed a smartphone app that combines Meta Smart Glasses, ChatGPT and Facial Recognition technology to provide an unprecedented user experience. By putting the glasses on and raising your phone to your voice you can ask for information about anyone that you see in front of…
PIZZA PRIVACY PROBLEM: Domino’s Hit with Class Action Over Alleged AI Wiretapping
Tori Guidry of Troutman Amin, LLP writes: A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of California residents, alleging that Domino’s Pizza, Inc. and ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. secretly intercepted and recorded phone calls placed by California customers. Plaintiff alleges that Domino’s utilized ConverseNow’s Voice AI technology, which wiretaps…