US military says it can put facial recognition into robot drones
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AI belongs on the street alongside cops, researchers urge
‘RoboCop’ was brutal satire about policing, but a team of researchers at a U.S. national lab may see it as…
IARPA awards contracts for whole-body biometric identification
The research and development arm of the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced a tranche of contracts…
EU blankets borders with surveillance tech to deter refugees: investigation
A new investigation by The Guardian has shed light on several high-tech surveillance biometrics and deterrent systems deployed by some…
Surveillance drones sought by UK police, threatened with sanctions in US
New sanctions could be imposed on DJI Technology, a Chinese maker of drones capable of biometric surveillance, by the American…
NYPD’s $159M ‘surveillance slush fund’ used to buy facial recognition software, x-ray vans
Facial recognition and predictive policing software, ‘stingray’ cell tower simulators and vans equipped with x-ray machines to detect weapons were…
Will $500M for smart cities in historic US Senate spending bill fund biometric surveillance?
Half a billion dollars was written into the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed Wednesday by the U.S. Senate to pay…
Like a nightmare come true: Killer robots fighting humanity’s wars
There is a lot to consider in news of at least one hunter-killer quadcopter participating autonomously in factional warfare in…
Turkey adds autonomous facial recognition kamikaze drones to military portfolio
A major player in the engineering and defense industries, Turkish defense contractor Defense Technologies Engineering and Trade Inc. (STM) is…
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