Topic: ai surveillance
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My Weekend With a Family-Watching AI Got Strange
The author tested Google's Gemini for Home AI, which provided real-time descriptive alerts of household activities, improving on generic security notifications with specific details like identifying family members versus strangers. While real-time alerts were mostly accurate, the system's daily H...
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AI Helps California Town Catch Bike Lane Blockers
Santa Monica is deploying AI on parking enforcement vehicles to automatically detect and deter vehicles illegally blocking bike lanes, aiming to enhance cyclist safety. The technology, from Hayden AI, is already used on buses in several major U.S. cities and has proven effective, with pilot data ...
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Xthings Unveils the Narc Pole: A New Social Media Trend
Xthings unveiled the AI-powered **X Tower** at CES 2026, a solar-powered public lamp designed for real-time surveillance and threat detection in urban spaces. The tower's system uses cameras and AI to monitor activities like loitering or aggression, sending alerts to command centers for potential...
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AI Monitors Prison Calls to Predict Planned Crimes
A new AI system is being used to monitor prison phone calls for potential criminal activity, sparking debate over privacy and predictive policing, with recent FCC rules allowing its funding through fees charged to inmates and their families. The FCC reversed earlier 2024 reforms that had banned b...
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Vandals Target AI Necklace Ads That Record Your Conversations
A wave of vandalism on AI necklace ads in New York City subways reflects public concerns over privacy and AI's role in daily life, with graffiti expressing skepticism about the device's recording and companionship features. Critics targeted the product's implications, linking it to broader issues...
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White House Frustrated by Anthropic's AI Limits on Law Enforcement
The White House is frustrated with Anthropic for prohibiting the use of its AI in domestic surveillance, despite its approval for classified national security tasks. Federal contractors face obstacles deploying Anthropic's Claude for monitoring, with officials criticizing its inconsistent policie...
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AI Video Surveillance: The End of Privacy?
AI video surveillance enhances public safety but raises significant privacy concerns due to its ability to track individuals and create detailed profiles. The technology is prone to errors and biases, leading to false identifications and unfair targeting, with data management practices varying wi...
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Ring's AI Search Party Expands Beyond Finding Lost Pets
A leaked email reveals Ring's founder envisions its AI Search Party feature evolving beyond finding pets to "zero out crime," raising privacy concerns about pervasive surveillance. While Ring states the tool is currently limited and user-controlled, critics fear its combination with facial recogn...
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Jeffrey Epstein's 'Personal Hacker' Revealed, Informant Says
A federal judge has delayed a ruling on armed DHS raids in Minnesota, amid scrutiny of ICE's use of AI surveillance tools and military-style tactics in immigration enforcement. Global security concerns include a human trafficking investigation in Laos, the rise of accessible deepfake abuse techno...
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Ring's Flock Shutdown Misses the Real Issue
Ring's decision to end its Flock Safety partnership fails to address core public concerns about privacy and its ties to law enforcement, particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), offering only a logistical explanation that appears to be a response to public pressure. The shutdown do...
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AI Browsers: Are the Security Risks Worth It?
AI browsers integrate powerful language models to automate tasks like shopping and summarization, but they introduce significant security and privacy risks that users must weigh. Key threats include prompt injection attacks that can bypass safety protocols and allow unauthorized data access, with...
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Reclaiming Friendship in a Tech-Disrupted World
The advertisement for an AI "Friend" necklace in the NYC subway sparked a public backlash, revealing a fear that technology is being marketed as a replacement for human connection rather than a tool. Tech companies are aggressively selling AI companions as solutions to a loneliness epidemic, a tr...
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Chrome 0-Day Patched, npm Attack, LinkedIn AI Data Scandal
A large majority (89%) of enterprise AI usage is undetected by IT and security teams, posing significant data privacy and compliance risks. Security experts emphasize the importance of engineering-driven protection and secure-by-design approaches over mere compliance checkboxes. Emerging threats ...
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TikTok's Freedom Edition: What You Need to Know
A tentative agreement has been reached for the sale of TikTok's US operations to a consortium of investors, though final approval from the Chinese government is still pending, with the US government not holding a stake in the new entity. TikTok's value is seen in its user base and data by investo...
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AI Superintelligence: Why It's Not Coming Soon
Artificial superintelligence (ASI) presents both transformative potential and significant risks, with its arrival timeline remaining highly uncertain despite rapid integration into business and security infrastructure. The technology could enable superior decision-making and efficiency but also i...
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