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recent bookmarks from jmLondon police’s use of AFR facial recognition falls flat on its face2017-09-14T10:57:47+00:00
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/09/05/london-polices-use-of-facial-recognition-falls-flat-on-its-face/
jmA “top-of-the-line” automated facial recognition (AFR) system trialled for the second year in a row at London’s Notting Hill Carnival couldn’t even tell the difference between a young woman and a balding man, according to a rights group worker invited to view it in action. Because yes, of course they did it again: London’s Met police used controversial, inaccurate, largely unregulated automated facial recognition (AFR) technology to spot troublemakers. And once again, it did more harm than good.
Last year, it proved useless. This year, it proved worse than useless: it blew up in their faces, with 35 false matches and one wrongful arrest of somebody erroneously tagged as being wanted on a warrant for a rioting offense.
[...] During a recent, scathing US House oversight committee hearing on the FBI’s use of the technology, it emerged that 80% of the people in the FBI database don’t have any sort of arrest record. Yet the system’s recognition algorithm inaccurately identifies them during criminal searches 15% of the time, with black women most often being misidentified.
]]>face-recognition afr london notting-hill-carnival police liberty met-police privacy data-privacy algorithmshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9be47e7d092b/How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text - The Intercept2015-05-05T15:34:15+00:00
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/
jmTo Phillip Rogaway, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis, keyword-search is probably the “least of our problems.” In an email to The Intercept, Rogaway warned that “When the NSA identifies someone as ‘interesting’ based on contemporary NLP methods, it might be that there is no human-understandable explanation as to why beyond: ‘his corpus of discourse resembles those of others whom we thought interesting'; or the conceptual opposite: ‘his discourse looks or sounds different from most people’s.' If the algorithms NSA computers use to identify threats are too complex for humans to understand, it will be impossible to understand the contours of the surveillance apparatus by which one is judged. All that people will be able to do is to try your best to behave just like everyone else.”
]]>privacy security gchq nsa surveillance machine-learning liberty future speech nlp pattern-analysis cshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:37f63be6fcc7/Digital Rights Ireland files Amicus Brief in Microsoft v USA with Liberty and ORG2014-12-16T16:57:21+00:00
http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2014/12/16/digital-rights-ireland-microsoft-liberty-org/
jmMicrosoft -v- USA is an important ongoing case, currently listed for hearing in 2015 before the US Federal Court of Appeal of the 2nd Circuit.
However, as the case centres around the means by which NY law enforcement are seeking to access data of an email account which resides in Dublin, it is also crucially significant to Ireland and the rest of the EU. For that reason, Digital Rights Ireland instructed us to file an Amicus Brief in the US case, in conjunction with the global law firm of White & Case, who have acted pro bono in their representation.
Given the significance of the case for the wider EU, both Liberty and the Open Rights Group in the UK have joined Digital Rights Ireland as amici on this brief. We hope it will be of aid to the US court in assessing the significance of the order being appealed by Microsoft for EU citizens and European states, in the light of the existing US and EU Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty.
]]>amicus-briefs law us dri microsoft mlats org liberty eu privacyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ea8d6e2a072e/Liberty issues claim against British Intelligence Services over PRISM and Tempora privacy scandal2013-06-25T21:04:13+00:00
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/media/press/2013/liberty-issues-claim-against-british-intelligence-servic.php
jmJames Welch, Legal Director for Liberty, said:
“Those demanding the Snoopers’ Charter seem to have been indulging in out-of-control snooping even without it – exploiting legal loopholes and help from Uncle Sam.
“No-one suggests a completely unpoliced internet but those in power cannot swap targeted investigations for endless monitoring of the entire globe.”
Go Liberty! Take note, ICCL, this is how a civil liberties group engages with internet issues.]]>prism nsa gchq surveillance liberty civil-liberties internet snoopinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5a437425f21a/