Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
“What they're not saying is that ALPRs are also frequently used for extremely low-level investigations, such as verifying whether a student lives within a particular school zone…police have even used this tech to conduct employment background checks and investigations into loud music complaints.”
"Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its powerful Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, embedding engineers inside the agency despite an ongoing legal battle with the Pentagon."
the pipeline from a facile understanding of "what if we afford nonhuman actors agency in sociotechnical systems analysis" to "the computer can think and it's my girlfriend" is such a thing to behold
Contrary to #Flock’s PR messages, their marketing materials and patents brag about tracking and facial recog. functionality. They can identify “different classes of people (male, female, race, etc.) … clothing types (jacket, pants, shorts, hat, etc.) and … height and weight.”
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