Algorithmen auf Streife: Bremens Straßenbahnen werden zur KI-Überwachungszone

Mit #AI-Watch führt die #BSAG eine Echtzeit-Analyse von Fahrgästen ein. Was als Sicherheitsgewinn verkauft wird, markiert eine neue Stufe der #Videoüberwachung….

https://www.heise.de/news/Algorithmen-auf-Streife-Bremens-Strassenbahnen-werden-zur-KI-Ueberwachungszone-11185075.html

#Bremen #Überwachung #KI #Technology #Digitalisierung

Keep on going! 🖤 #Sabotage

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying #Flock surveillance cameras!

Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage….

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

#USA #Surveillance #activism #Technology #ICE

Many CEOs of the big tech companies are Indian origin: Microsoft, Google, IBM, etc. What happens if they move to India and lead successful tech companies there? We would have more healthy competition in this space instead of our total dependency on American techs.

#bigtechs #indian #technology #tech

Disgusting. Frontex is building an ‘AI chatbot app’ to encourage repatriations

‚The Border Agency of the European Union, Frontex, is building a mobile application for individuals who are voluntarily or forcibly deported from Europe, as part of its EU Reintegration Programme (EURP).

The application will come equipped with an ‘AI chatbot’ feature, which allows deportees to learn about the available services within the program, such as the opening hours of the nearest return counseling centers, or the financial incentives offered to individuals who accept to travel back to their country of citizenship (given the relative lack of choice people face, some scholars prefer the term ‘self-deportation’)...‘

#AbolishFrontex

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/frontex-is-building-an-ai-chatbot-app-to-encourage-repatriations/

#Migration #Refugees #Chatbot #AI #Surveilance #Technology #Europe #FortressEurope #Frontex

How goverments are using facial recognition to crack down on protesters

Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. #FacialRecognition #technology changes the equation.

"But while authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters.
(...)
In countries where demonstrating can come with physical or political risk, large-scale protests have historically offered a degree of anonymity, and, with it, a level of protection. Mass protests are a way for citizens to express dissent as a collective — often under the assumption that “they can’t arrest us all.”

But in the last decade, the spread of facial recognition technology has changed that equation: A lone face in a crowd is no longer anonymous; facial recognition allows #authorities to capture people’s identities en masse."

https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/

#surveillance #Protest #Repression

ROBLOX, REDDIT AND DISCORD USERS COMPELLED TO USE BIOMETRIC ID SYSTEM BACKED BYPALANTIR CO-FOUNDER PETER THIEL

‚Peter Thiel, co-founder of surveillance and data analytics company #Palantir, is a major investor in Persona – the age verification provider used by major platforms including #Reddit and #Discord.‘

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/roblox-reddit-and-discord-users-compelled-to-use-biometric-id-system-backed-by-palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel/

#BigTech #Technology #Surveillance #SocialMedia #PeterThiel

First we take USA, then we take Europe!
Autoritäre Tech-Milliardäre

‚Die Auslagerung von Kernaufgaben des Militärs und anderer sicherheitsrelevanter staatlicher Aufgaben an Privatunternehmen ist das Thema einer umfassenden Recherche, die Francesca Bria, José Bautista und xof-research.org unter dem Titel „The authoritarian stack“ (Der autoritäre Block) veröffentlicht haben. Europa stehe vor einer existenziellen Entscheidung, so die Autor*innen….‘

Vorstellung der Reportage The Authoritarian Stack! Via @npla_de
https://www.npla.de/thema/politik-gesellschaft/autoritaere-tech-milliardaere-first-we-take-usa-then-we-take-europe/

#Palantir #PeterThiel #USA #BigTech #Digitalisierung #Technology

Interessante Hintergründe zur militarisierten, digitalen Überwachungsindustrie und Milliardärskartellen um Palantir, SpaceX, Thiel Capital und Co.. Die systemische Analyse könnte zwar ausgefeilter sein, die Netzwerke und autoritären Ideologien werden aber gut beleuchtet.

Während diese Entwicklungen derzeit vor allem in den #USA stattfinden, fasst Palantir auch in #Europa immer mehr Fuß. In #Deutschland sind es vor allem die Partei Die Grünen und die Union, die dem Einsatz von Palantir-Überwachungstechnologie auf Länderebene immer weiter den Grund bereiten.

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

#Palantir #PeterThiel #AlexKarp #Überwachung #Autoritarisierung #Tech #Technology #BigTech #MAGA #Trump #Musk

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

#USA #Europe #Surveillance #Technology #Capitalism #TechnoFacism

My prediction is that the whole AI memory shortage is about to be a massive win for China. It’s going to wipe out a bunch of Western companies, and then once Chinese manufacturers ramp up RAM production, we’ll see Chinese alternatives replacing Western products across the board.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/many-consumer-electronics-manufacturers-will-go-bankrupt-or-exit-product-lines-by-the-end-of-2026-due-to-the-ai-memory-crisis-phison-ceo-reportedly-says

#technology #news

First we take USA, then we take Europe!
Autoritäre Tech-Milliardäre

‚Die Auslagerung von Kernaufgaben des Militärs und anderer sicherheitsrelevanter staatlicher Aufgaben an Privatunternehmen ist das Thema einer umfassenden Recherche, die Francesca Bria, José Bautista und xof-research.org unter dem Titel „The authoritarian stack“ (Der autoritäre Block) veröffentlicht haben. Europa stehe vor einer existenziellen Entscheidung, so die Autor*innen….‘

Vorstellung der Reportage The Authoritarian Stack! Via @npla_de
https://www.npla.de/thema/politik-gesellschaft/autoritaere-tech-milliardaere-first-we-take-usa-then-we-take-europe/

#Palantir #PeterThiel #USA #BigTech #Digitalisierung #Technology

My prediction is that the whole AI memory shortage is about to be a massive win for China. It’s going to wipe out a bunch of Western companies, and then once Chinese manufacturers ramp up RAM production, we’ll see Chinese alternatives replacing Western products across the board.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/many-consumer-electronics-manufacturers-will-go-bankrupt-or-exit-product-lines-by-the-end-of-2026-due-to-the-ai-memory-crisis-phison-ceo-reportedly-says

#technology #news

A wooden lockbox with a difference: there's a gyroscope inside, and unless you twist and turn it in exactly the right pattern it simply won't open.

https://www.hackster.io/news/this-clever-lockbox-only-opens-if-you-solve-its-twisty-turny-puzzle-7183ba4d7b25

#Technology #News #Hackster #Microcontroller #Woodworking

A wooden lockbox with a difference: there's a gyroscope inside, and unless you twist and turn it in exactly the right pattern it simply won't open.

https://www.hackster.io/news/this-clever-lockbox-only-opens-if-you-solve-its-twisty-turny-puzzle-7183ba4d7b25

#Technology #News #Hackster #Microcontroller #Woodworking

Then Microsoft says it's completed research on a data storage technology which encodes voxels into glass sheets to store terabytes for tens of thousands of years.

...but, at the moment, requires a room-filling femtosecond laser setup and a stupidly high-resolution camera to read the data back, so don't expect it in a laptop any time soon.

https://www.hackster.io/news/microsoft-researchers-blast-glass-with-lasers-to-encode-terabytes-of-data-for-millennia-24f2b4962ff0

#Technology #News #Science #Lasers #Hackster

It's #Hackster round-up time again! Up first today we've got a bit of #science: a smart insole with a couple of hundred pressure sensors, feeding data into a custom-built low-power chip to track the wearer's gait.

https://www.hackster.io/news/ultra-low-power-chip-monitors-hundreds-of-pressure-points-to-drive-a-smart-gait-tracking-shoe-03734c23f2e2

#Technology #News #Wearables

"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes." This study shows that some do - to significant effect. #Technology https://werd.io/the-political-effects-of-xs-feed-algorithm/