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[UK] Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars

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  • Police rule out using Live Facial Recognition on Surrey Street

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    How? They've literally been asking for more crime cameras be installed to fight crime since a resident was murdered. "It's not in the budget." More on duty police? "Sorry, it's just not in the budget." Live facial recognition tracking system that doesn't exist anywhere else and can be used to collect data and create a giant AI database with data from every civilian it tracks. That data can then coincidentally be used to train AI models and enhance profits for companies like Palantir. "Yeah we should be able to swing that in the budget." Basically the exact same story is happening in the U.S. city where I live. We have a boil water advisory every other week, we have terrible roads, and awful schools but somehow the city has the budget to update our cameras so we will become the first city to test this out. After Palantir already secretly used our city to create and test their predictive policing model (which still fucking sucks btw). https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predictive-policing-tool-new-orleans-nopd Oh also Palantir happens to be currently working with the U.S. government to create a giant database of every citizen. https://www.mercurynews.com/?p=12164379%2F
  • 'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me'

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    Yes, the use of the voice was intentionally misleading. That's why it was decided the way it was.
  • FairPhone AMA

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  • Inside the face scanning tech behind social media age limits

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  • Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

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    I could see some exception for windows 11 IoT being made, but I honestly don’t know.
  • autofocus glasses

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    Hm. Checking my glasses I think there is something on the top too. I can see distance ever so slightly clearer looking out the top. If I remember right, I have a minus .25 in one eye. Always been told it didn't need correction, but maybe it is in this pair. I should go get some off the shelf progressive readers and try those.
  • The Universal Tech Tree

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  • Windows 11 remote desktop microphone stops working intermittently

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    When I worked in IT, we only let people install every other version of Windows. Our Linux user policy was always “mainstream distro and the LTS version.” Mac users were strongly advised to wait 3 months to upgrade. One guy used FreeBSD and I just never questioned him because he was older and never filed one help desk request. He probably thought I was an idiot. (And I was.) Anyway, I say all that to say don’t use Windows 11 on anything important. It’s the equivalent of a beta. Windows 12 (or however they brand it) will probably be stable. I don’t use Windows much anymore and maybe things have changed but the concepts in the previous paragraph could be outdated. But it’s a good rule of thumb.