This new surveillance system can track prison inmates every 30 seconds and monitor their heart rate.
A jail in the US is using 'tamper proof' wearable wristbands to keep track of people. Documents obtained by WIRED show this includes watching their heart rate for potential health issues, seeing which inmates they come into contact with, and monitoring how much time they spend in and out of their cells.
Privacy experts say this is another unneeded level of surveillance that has multiple potential points of failure. Two people I spoke to described it as "horrifying".
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“You have every right to allow [anything you want] on your platform. But the whole point of everyone eventually coming to terms with the content moderation learning curve, and the fact that private businesses are private and not the government, is that what you allow on your platform is what sticks to you. It’s your reputation at play.
And your reputation when you refuse to moderate is not “the grand enabler of free speech.” Because it’s the internet itself that is the grand enabler of free speech. When you’re a private centralized company and you don’t deal with hateful content on your site, you’re the Nazi bar.”
I was into privacy and security before it was cool. Side note- I was obsessed with pda tech. Little computers, no matter how simple, were incredibly novel back then. If you handed 10 year old me a smartphone I would have passed out.
The risk presented by AI isn’t superintelligent computers, but how it expands the ability of those in power to shape our lives and ultimately to decide who lives and dies.
Dan McQuillan’s latest piece is a must-read to dispel the AI hype. “To put it crudely: AI can decide which humans are disposable,” he writes.
One of my favourite books as a child was The Rough Guide 2.0: The Internet and World Wide Web. It's crazy how much has changed in 27 years and I hope this post helps you take a trip down memory lane. Or if you weren't around in 1996 it provides a glimpse of what the emergent days (dial-up days) of the internet were like.
[Battle of subs] /m/tech is murdering /m/technology in the numbers.
Turns out the /r/technology fans were lurkers after all. So far /m/technology has 1 comment vs 170 for /m/tech....
A trip to the internet in 1996 with The Rough Guide 2.0 (www.planetjones.net)
One of my favourite books as a child was The Rough Guide 2.0: The Internet and World Wide Web. It's crazy how much has changed in 27 years and I hope this post helps you take a trip down memory lane. Or if you weren't around in 1996 it provides a glimpse of what the emergent days (dial-up days) of the internet were like.