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Earlier this month, a viral post on X claimed that the NFL would start using facial recognition technology (FRT) "to verify the identity of people entering [each] stadium." According to the rumor, the league had partnered with Wicket, a facial recognition software company, and would soon begin its fan surveillance program. Wicket's chief operating officer, Jeff Boehm, told Reason in a statement that the company's FRT technology was being used to verify the identity of "credential holders seeking access to restricted areas of the stadium, not for ticket holders." Boehm went on to say there were...
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Austria's chancellor presented a pack of measures to fight counterterrorism to his intelligence council on Tuesday, including stronger monitoring of "messenger services," in the wake of a thwarted terrorist attack over the weekend at a Taylor Swift concert. "It has become clear that Islamist terror poses a threat to security and freedom in Austria," a list of priorities from the government, published in the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitüng, read. "Legal measures should empower the services of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of the Interior to monitor the content of messages". Third s...
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Principled advocacy of liberty is hard, we get it. Many of us find something so offensive or irksome that all live-and-let-live sentiments evaporate. For former criminal defense attorney Dana Bazelon, now policy director for reformist Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, that issue is guns and the violence she attributes to them. She's discarded concerns about government abuses to endorse a wide-reaching surveillance state. "If the idea of more police cameras makes you queasy, I understand: I spent the first decade of my ...
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Argentine President Javier Milei announced an ambitious plan to use artificial intelligence to predict, detect, and investigate crimes. While the initiative aims to enhance security, it raises serious concerns about extensive surveillance and policing. Last week, Argentina's Ministry of Security unveiled the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit (UIAAS), which aims to use "machine-learning algorithms to analyze historical crime data to predict future crimes and help prevent them." The tools at the UIAAS's disposal include facial recognition software, social media monitoring, drone s...
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By Hera Rizwan India's rail networks are adding AI and facial recognition-enabled CCTV cameras inside train coaches nationwide. The Ministry of Railways will be using face-cropping tools and face-matching servers to monitor and identify individuals with the aim of 'curbing crime'. According to the blog post from IDIS Global, the South Korean video surveillance manufacturer handling the project, Indian Railways will be equipped with a 4K camera system integrated with AI video analytics and facial recognition technology from Herta Security. In May 2024, cameras were installed at hundreds of plat...
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James C. Scott, who died July 19 at age 87, was one of the most original and radical political theorists of the past century. Beginning as a political scientist studying Southeast Asia and then expanding to other disciplines and to the rest of the globe, Scott wrote about the ways authority exerts itself, about the ways ordinary people resist or avoid that authority, and about the unmapped territories where that resistance often takes place. I mean unmapped both figuratively (as when he recounted how Malaysian farmers covertly evaded the Islamic government's tithes) and literally (as when he d...
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In May, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled against the state after wildlife agents trespassed onto private land and planted cameras to look for hunting violations. This week, the Tennessee Attorney General's Office declined to file an appeal, meaning the ruling is affirmed. It's a good first step in reclaiming Americans' property rights. State law allows officers of the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA)—or any other state or federal wildlife agency—to "go upon any property, outside of buildings, posted or otherwise," in order to "enforce all laws relating to wildlife." As Reason firs...
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By Hera Rizwan Union Home Minister Amit Shah has introduced a new initiative aimed at expediting the immigration process for pre-verified Indian nationals and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders. Describing it as a "visionary initiative," Shah highlighted that the Fast Track Immigration-Trusted Traveler Programme (FTI-TTP) is specifically tailored to benefit Indian nationals and OCI cardholders. Applicants are required to apply online and provide biometrics (fingerprints and facial image) along with other specified details in the application form. Registration for FTI-TTP will remain v...
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Cellebrite is a dream come true for police surveillance. Plug in any cellphone, even a locked one, and get a full report of every file on its hard drive. Cellebrite, along with its main competitor, Grayshift, is one of the few companies offering this service. No wonder the Baltimore Police Department, like 6,900 other law enforcement agencies, bought a subscription. Where police saw a dream, however, courts saw a constitutional nightmare. In September 2022, the 5th Appellate Judicial Circuit in Maryland ruled that police must stop using "general and overbroad warrants" to scrape the entire con...
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The government has a long history of using tracking technology to ascertain our whereabouts, our habits, and even our preferences. From cellphones and cars to snow plows and garbage trucks, governments seemingly want to track anything that moves—or moos. The USDA recently finalized a rule—set to go into effect in a few months—that will require all cattle and bison being moved across state lines to be tagged with radio-frequency identification (RFID) ear tags. RFID technology uses radio frequency waves to transmit and collect data by way of a system of electronic tags and scanners. The technolo...
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