Tracking | ForkLog

uskoryayushhei-sya-fragmentatsii-mirovogo-interneta

ForkLog 14 14.07.2021

China deploys facial-recognition technology to fight COVID-19

In the Chinese city of Ruili, Yunnan Province, facial-recognition technology was linked to citizens' health codes to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

AI translated

ForkLog 20 12.07.2021

OK Group to Aid Police in AML Crackdown Using Blockchain

OK Group, the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, announced a collaboration with the Nanjing Public Security Research Institute to apply blockchain technology in anti-money-laundering operations.

AI translated

ForkLog 12 07.07.2021

Tencent deploys facial-recognition to curb underage gaming at night

The Chinese tech giant Tencent has rolled out the Night Patrol facial-recognition system to bar underage gamers from online games from 22:00 to 08:00. It will also prevent children from exceeding a daily limit of 90 minutes.

AI translated

ForkLog 16 01.07.2021

Seoul to deploy AI to detect potential suicides on bridges

Authorities of the South Korean capital, in partnership with Seoul Institute of Technology, will embed artificial intelligence in the city’s surveillance system to detect and prevent suicide attempts on its bridges.

AI translated

ForkLog 13 30.06.2021

Study finds U.S. federal agencies lax in facial-recognition use

The U.S. GAO found an almost complete lack of accountability by federal agencies in their use of private facial-recognition systems such as Clearview AI.

AI translated

ForkLog 14 25.06.2021

Startup develops technology to fool facial-recognition systems

Israeli company Adversa developed the Adversarial Octopus technology to fool facial-recognition algorithms into identifying one person as another.

AI translated

ForkLog 13 24.06.2021

Russian Interior Ministry launches silhouette-based recognition system for people and vehicles

The Interior Ministry has rolled out a new system in several Russian regions that recognises not only faces but also the silhouettes of people and vehicles.

AI translated

ForkLog 10 22.06.2021

European Regulators Call to Ban Facial Recognition in the EU

In the European Union, calls have been made to ban the use of artificial intelligence in facial recognition, gait analysis, fingerprints, and the processing of other biometric data.

AI translated

ForkLog 23 18.06.2021

Canon installs AI smile-recognition cameras in Chinese offices. Only smiling workers are admitted.

Canon installed AI-powered smile-recognition cameras in the offices of its subsidiary Canon Information Technology in China.

AI translated

ForkLog 10 09.06.2021

Experts: EU AI rules could open the door to mass surveillance

A coalition of consumer and digital rights groups from 55 countries in an open letter criticized a draft bill regulating the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the European Union.

AI translated

ForkLog 10 07.06.2021

Rosfinmonitoring seeks power to track remittances to Russian citizens from abroad

A bill prohibiting participation in the activities of 'undesirable' foreign organisations will be supplemented by amendments allowing Rosfinmonitoring to track all transfers to individuals and legal entities from countries listed in a special list.

AI translated

ForkLog 25 03.06.2021

Amnesty International: NYPD operates 15,280 facial-recognition cameras

The New York Police Department has the ability to track people and recognise their faces in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx using 15,280 surveillance cameras. This is according to a new Amnesty International investigation. “This sprawling network of cameras could be used by the police for invasive facial recognition and turn New York into an Orwellian city of surveillance,” said Matt Mahmudi, AI and human rights researcher at Amnesty International.

AI translated

#Tracking