Chinese citizens discover facial recognition fines For many people, mass surveillance by the Chinese state primarily targets political dissidents, NGO representatives, or activists of all stripes. However, cameras equipped with advanced technology also sanction the everyday missteps of ordinary citizens.

Chinese citizens discover facial recognition fines

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Read the political agenda of the #Palantir bosses 👇. Allowing this company to run our most critical systems - in health care, police, security - is beyond naive. It is knowingly exposing our society to those who want to destroy it. Our governments are inviting them in.

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven...

#ai #privacy #eprivacy #compliance #infosec #gdpr #law #cyber #security #anthropic #claude

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Anthropic’s hacking tech exposes EU AI Office weaknesses The unit in charge over overseeing the most advanced models needs more staff, critics say.

The European Union unit tasked with scrutinizing Anthropic’s new elite hacking AI model lacks access to the technology and the experts needed to stave off a looming cybersecurity crisis.

www.politico.eu/article/anth...

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Policing, Technology, and Digital Surveillance in Ireland and Abroad This panel of experts will examine new surveillance and AI technologies and discuss their implications for policing and rule of law.

This is today 🤩 Join us if you are in #Maynooth!! www.eventbrite.ie/e/policing-t...

Very excited to give a talk together w @nan-knust.bsky.social Knust on 22 April at 4.30 pm on "The use of predictive policing to control fisheries crime" which is part of a great series of talks organised @azadehakbari.bsky.social Join us in Frankfurt or online! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/what-we-do/e...

Beperkingen Amerikaanse satellietbedrijven zorgen voor vertraging in verificatie Iran-oorlog Twee grote Amerikaanse satellietbedrijven beperken de toegang tot beelden van de Iran-oorlog, waardoor de verificatie wordt vertraagd. Wat blijft er nog zichtbaar in oorlogstijd?

Beperkingen Amerikaanse satellietbedrijven zorgen voor vertraging in verificatie Iran-oorlog www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/b...

In this talk we will present a case study of the use of predictive policing to control fisheries crimes to analyse the potential ‘more-than-human harms’ and reflect on how these insights can inform the governance of crime control at sea. #AI #morethanhuman #digitalcriminology #criminology

Very excited to give a talk together w @nan-knust.bsky.social Knust on 22 April at 4.30 pm on "The use of predictive policing to control fisheries crime" which is part of a great series of talks organised @azadehakbari.bsky.social Join us in Frankfurt or online! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/what-we-do/e...

Very excited to give a talk together w @nan-knust.bsky.social Knust on 22 April at 4.30 pm on "The use of predictive policing to control fisheries crime" which is part of a great series of talks organised @azadehakbari.bsky.social Join us in Frankfurt or online! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/what-we-do/e...

Very excited to give a talk together w @nan-knust.bsky.social Knust on 22 April at 4.30 pm on "The use of predictive policing to control fisheries crime" which is part of a great series of talks organised @azadehakbari.bsky.social Join us in Frankfurt or online! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/what-we-do/e...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

"Within weeks ... major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition ... The fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers."

Bluesky #Mercantour #France

Effective climate policies for ‘all seasons’: novel evidence from 40 countries As governmental climate policy efforts are expanding, evaluating their effectiveness has become increasingly challenging due to numerous coexisting policies that complicate isolating individual imp...

Climate policies work faster and more effectively than most people think. Analysis of 40 nations finds climate policies do reduce emissions. The strongest effects come from “packages” combining carbon pricing, subsidies and regulations, rather than single measures. buff.ly/miMIF8A
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On this week's Stage Talk @foeke.bsky.social spoke about uncovering wildlife traffickers selling protected animals… on Facebook. Not the dark web. Not hidden forums.
In plain sight—using coded language to avoid detection.
Learn how by searching 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat': rss.com/podcasts/bel...

City Launches New Number Plate & Face Recognition System Targeting Offenders The rollout is part of the county’s push toward using modern technology to improve the city’s management, revenue collection and road safety enforcement.

"These smart CCTVs [in Mombasa] will help us nab those not paying parking fees and those breaking other laws. We are also looking to partner with stakeholders to enhance the system’s capacity, including number plate and facial recognition."

www.kenyans.co.ke/news/122151-...

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Is het nog zinvol om ‘neutraal’ te blijven wanneer het over mensenrechten gaat? Extreme ideeën zijn in een verbluffend tempo normaal geworden en de media spelen een cruciale rol in dat proces, schrijft Bieke Purnelle. Voor journalisten is het de vraag: hoe kan ik mijn principes en mijn functie combineren zonder aan een van die twee te verzaken?

"De uitputting die je overvalt bij het lezen vd zoveelste abstracte analyse van de opgang van extreemrechts, bij het zoveelste filosofische debat over de vrijheid van meningsuiting, bij de zoveelste enerzijds-anderzijds terwijl fundamentele rechten bedreigd worden" www.standaard.be/opinies/is-h...

Wat doet onze overheid nog op X? | LUBACH YouTube video by LUBACH

De vraag geldt ook voor de overheid en organisaties in België m.youtube.com/watch?v=u4hH...

No man’s hand: artificial intelligence does not improve police report writing speed - Journal of Experimental Criminology Objectives This study examines the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce the time police officers spend writing reports, a task that consumes a significant portion of their workday. Meth...

Our findings contradict marketing expectations for the effect of this technology, suggesting no time savings in report-writing can be expected when using AI-assisted report-writing link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Law enforcement used a facial recognition system developed by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) more than twice as often as in the previous year. The system is generating an increasing number of so-called "hits" and simultaneously creating a bias against asylum seekers.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Harmful Policing
10-11-2026 | Erasmus University Rotterdam

Following the success of two AI-symposiums, Dutch Surveillance Studies is organizing a third symposium: ‘Harmful Policing’. We are delighted to invite submissions exploring the increased digitization of policing and harm.

More evidence doesn’t mean more justice: The limits of visual technologies in human rights cases The expansion of technologies has increased the documentation of violence. But it doesn’t always lead to justice since courts often exclude information gathered by families and communities.

This “evidence revolution” is often treated as if better visibility produces better justice but in practice, courts and legal institutions decide what becomes legible as truth. It is this gatekeeping that distorts what harms are recognized and acted upon. theconversation.com/more-evidenc...

🎉 Tomorrow our FWO-SNSF Weave project INFRASEC The Infrastructuring of Algorithmic Passenger Security: A comparative analysis of infrastructural processes at the national and international level kicks off! This is a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Zürich /1