Above Photo: The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition said they’ll strike for at least a week, but could extend it if a majority of the union vote in favor. Justin Hicks / IPB News. Bloomington, Indiana – Around 1,000 graduate student workers at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus are on strike to demand the school recognize them as a union. But the school said it has no intention of bargaining with the group – and no legal obligation to do so. The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers began the week-long strike on Wednesday. The strike includes in-person picket lines and labor education events […]
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Above Photo: Floor of the Venezuelan National Assembly while debating a draft resolution demanding respect for ambassador Alex Saab diplomatic immunity. (RedRadioVE). This Wednesday, April 6, Venezuela’s National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved a draft agreement to demand acknowledgement of the diplomatic status of Alex Saab, who has been illegally imprisoned in the United States since October 2021. The AN statement establishes that Alex Saab has been serving as a diplomatic agent since 2018, as a special envoy for Venezuela in Russia and Iran, and since 2020 as ambassador plenipotentiary to the African Union. In addition, he was appointed in 2021 as […]
Silvus Technologies announced that they have received a contract worth up to $13.1 million to develop a distributed beamforming solution that will be critical to DARPA’s vision. As noted by the company, under the Resilient Networked Distributed Mosaic Communications (RN DMC) program, Silvus will develop a beamforming/beamnulling solution that will enable reliable and resilient long range terrestrial communications utilizing multiple collaborative radios distributed over large distances – an integral component to DARPA’s vision for the future of Mosaic Warfare. RN DMC stems from DARPA’s investment in mosaic warfare, a concept in which large numbers of lower-cost systems, referred to as “tiles,” […]
AfriForum – a South African civil rights organization, which just received a consultative status at the United Nations, was granted a permission to send its representatives to the UN’s New York, Geneva and Vienna offices. The watchdog, which is headquartered in the Gauteng province of South Africa, focuses on protecting the rights of Boer and Afrikaner white minority groups and is currently in opposition to the Rainbow Nation’s African National Congress party. According to AfriForum’s Head of Policy and Action Ernst Roets, international recognition is a big and long-awaited victory for his NGO. Sputnik: It took almost a decade for […]
Portland lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping ban on facial recognition technology, becoming the first city to bar both public and private entities from the controversial software and defeating Amazon’s bid to kill the measure. The Portland City Council adopted the ban in the form of two separate ordinances on Wednesday. The first will block all city agencies, including the police, from using the tech, while the other prohibits private organizations from deploying facial recognition devices in public places. Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler has hailed the move, saying it sets Portland apart from other cities. “What makes Portland’s legislation stand out from […]
Major New Study Calls For A Ban On Facial Recognition In Schools August 10, 2020 Major New Study Calls For A Ban On Facial Recognition In Schools2020-08-102020-08-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/09/stop-facial-recognition-1-e1567646938181.jpg200px200px A new study from the University of Michigan on the use of facial recognition in schools is recommending that lawmakers and school administrators ban the use of this technology in educational settings. The researchers behind the study write that facial recognition in schools “will likely have five types of implications: exacerbating racism, normalizing surveillance and eroding privacy, narrowing the definition of the ‘acceptable’ student, commodifying data, and institutionalizing inaccuracy. Because FR is automated, it will extend […]
An Israeli company specializing in rapid recognition tests says it is now working on a COVID-19 novel coronavirus test kit that provides results in 30 seconds, which could give people “the confidence to go back and act as normal.” What does the novel coronavirus smell like? One Israeli company thinks it’s figured it out. NanoScent, an Israeli tech company, told reporters on a recent tour that it is currently developing a 30-second COVID-19 test that would cost around $10 and could help the world return to normalcy. “Just like you have image recognition, we have scent recognition that we’ve designed,” NanoScent […]
Relations between the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China are turning increasingly sour, as London has introduced new eased routes to citizenship for nearly three million residents of Hong Kong. The Chinese foreign ministry threatened to end its recognition of British National Overseas (BNO) passports held by residents of Hong Kong in response to the former colonial power’s policy of opening up increased pathways to UK citizenship. A spokesman echoed China’s position Thursday, saying the move by the UK was an act of interference in its internal affairs. “As the English side is the first to violate the promise, China […]
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is moving forward with the Moving Target Recognition (MTR) program to develop robust, efficient, and reliable identification and tracking techniques to identify selected targets, and to maintain tracks for selected, critical targets, in dense target environments. The agency aims to award a contract for the development of novel collection techniques and processing algorithms for detection, geolocation, imaging, and automatic target recognition of moving ground targets with synthetic aperture radar sensors. This program, Moving Target Recognition (MTR), is a vital part of the Mosaic Warfare end-state vision. The new Moving Target Recognition (MTR) will […]
…by PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: This comes as a surprise to see over a hundred French lawmakers do this as France is under Israeli Lobby pressure on the scale of the US. The “Lobby” which some claim works closely with Israeli intelligence, has pushed for anti-BDS laws to use foreign courts to punish their political opponents. I cannot image and anti-BDS law the the US Congress would not pass in a hear beat, and nor can I imagine a Congressional staff whistle blower coming forward to spotlight how American values of free speech get trampled when the Lobby turns the […]
Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition July 11, 2020 Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition2020-07-112020-07-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/surveillance-e1594489812130.jpg200px200px Above photo: We see the videos of the people police hurt and kill—but the surveillance that led to that brutality is often hidden from us. Jon Shireman/Getty Images. What’s happening in Detroit should be a wakeup call for the nation. We can’t stop police violence without ending police surveillance. Uprisings for racial justice are sweeping the country. Following the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others, named and unnamed, America has finally reached its moment of reckoning. And politicians are starting to respond. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/102344/79/1023447935_0:183:1000:746_1200x675_80_0_0_cf1835d9b1a24102cffda2a3ebd2a0f1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007071079813904-facial-recognition-company-halts-operations-in-canada-amid-probe/ TORONTO (Sputnik) – Clearview AI will stop offering its facial recognition services in Canada in response to a government probe, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner said in a statement. “Clearview AI has advised Canadian privacy protection authorities that, in response to their joint investigation, it will cease offering its facial recognition services in Canada”, the statement released on Monday said. The privacy commissioner’s office said that the company’s last contract in the country with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is suspended indefinitely. The commissioner’s investigation into the use of the software by […]
Park Tae-seung stands outside his office and prayer hall in Yeongju City. Now 87, Park was 17 when he was recruited to fight in the Korean War. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anthony Kuhn/NPR Park Tae-seung stands outside his office and prayer hall in Yeongju City. Now 87, Park was 17 when he was recruited to fight in the Korean War. Anthony Kuhn/NPR While many Americans refer to the Korean War as the “forgotten war,” it is anything but that in South Korea 70 years after North Korea invaded. The war lasted from 1950 to 1953 but never formally ended, […]
A photo of the alleged suspect in a theft case in Detroit, left, next to the driver’s license photo of Robert Williams. An algorithm said Williams was the suspect, but he and his lawyers say the tool produced a false hit. ACLU of Michigan hide caption toggle caption ACLU of Michigan A photo of the alleged suspect in a theft case in Detroit, left, next to the driver’s license photo of Robert Williams. An algorithm said Williams was the suspect, but he and his lawyers say the tool produced a false hit. ACLU of Michigan Police in Detroit were trying to […]
Alethea AI, a synthetic media company, is piloting “privacy-preserving face skins,” or digital masks that counter facial recognition algorithms and help users preserve privacy on pre-recorded videos. The move comes as companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon announced they would suspend the sale of their facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies. “This is a new technique we developed inhouse that wraps a face with our AI algorithms,” said Alethea AI CEO Arif Khan. “Avatars are fun to play with and develop, but these ‘masks/skins’ are a different, more potent, animal to preserve privacy.” See also: Human Rights Foundation Funds […]
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it would freeze for one year the use of its facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies. Reed Saxon/AP hide caption toggle caption Reed Saxon/AP Amazon announced on Wednesday that it would freeze for one year the use of its facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies. Reed Saxon/AP Amazon announced on Wednesday a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial-recognition technology, yielding to pressure from police-reform advocates and civil rights groups. It is unclear how many law enforcement agencies in the U.S. deploy Amazon’s artificial intelligence tool, but an official with the Washington County […]
US law enforcement will be barred from using Amazon’s facial recognition software for one year, the company has announced, calling for stronger government regulations on the technology amid a broader push to reform policing. Amazon said it had placed a “one-year moratorium” on police use of its Rekognition software in a blog post on Wednesday, noting that organizations that “help rescue human trafficking victims and reunite missing children with their families” – which at times work with police – will be exempt from the ban. “We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial […]
Tech giants question whether face detecting technologies should be used by law enforcement agencies, as protests against police brutality continue in the United States following the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Amazon announced on Wednesday it has banned using Rekognition by police for at least one year. “We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge”, Amazon said in a statement. “We hope this one-year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready […]
IBM announced this week that it would stop selling its facial recognition technology to customers including police departments. The move prompted calls for other tech firms, like Amazon and Microsoft, to do the same. Richard Drew/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Drew/AP IBM announced this week that it would stop selling its facial recognition technology to customers including police departments. The move prompted calls for other tech firms, like Amazon and Microsoft, to do the same. Richard Drew/AP IBM will no longer provide facial recognition technology to police departments for mass surveillance and racial profiling, Arvind Krishna, IBM’s chief executive, wrote […]