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• Pre-Crime AI: ‘It Wasn’t Telling Us Anything We Didn’t know’

  05-07-2019 18:06 via technocracy.news
  It is encouraging that some police departments are already beginning to drop pre-crime AI systems because they have not delivered the intended results, much less “preempting criminal activity.” ⁃ TN EditorThe Los Angeles Police Department took a revolutionary leap in 2010 when it became one of the first to employ data technology and information about past crimes to predict future unlawful activity. Other departments around the nation soon adopted predictive policing techni
  
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• Somerville, MA: Second City Bans Facial Recognition Technology

  05-07-2019 17:48 via technocracy.news
  TN predicts that the city rush is on to ban facial recognition tech. In this case, Somerville got this right: “the public use of face surveillance can chill the exercise of constitutionally protected free speech.” ⁃ TN EditorIs it a movement? Or just a couple of outliers that will forever remain on the periphery of the surveillance state? It’s too early to say, but at least we can now say San Francisco isn’t an anomaly.
  Somerville, Massachusetts just becam
  
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• San Francisco: Techies Who Transformed it, Hate It

  05-07-2019 17:12 via technocracy.news
  Most techies who live there will never sing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” because of the ugly side-effects of the tech transformation. The city of culture is now called depressing and boring. ⁃ TN EditorIt was a beautiful winter day in San Francisco, and Zoe was grooving to the soundtrack of the roller-skating musical Xanadu as she rode an e-scooter to work. The 29-year-old tech worker had just passed the Uber building when, without warning, a homeless man jumped into
  
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