The proposals were filed by faith-based investors like the Presbyterian Church and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, and they requested transparent human rights impact assessments regarding the company's contracts.
New York lawmakers passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers.
If it's signed into law, it'd be the first of its kind.
It currently sits on Kathy Hochul's desk waiting for a signature. Will she sign it or veto it? 👀
These were modest proposals that were asking for independent reviews of human-rights risks. They weren't calling to abolish any contracts, or switch up the business model, or anything like that... but even the bare minimum is too much.
Amazon's Ring is facing a class-action lawsuit that alleges their "Familiar Faces" feature collects and stores biometric faceprints from visitors and bystanders without consent.
So basically, you don't ever have to own a Ring camera to be surveilled by one.
Our neighbors' doorbells are converting our faces, our movements, and anything we do into data for Amazon to harvest.
This is easily one of the largest civilian surveillance networks humanity has ever seen.
Welcome to our new perverted dystopia where the physical spaces in our communities have become one big surveillance dragnet.
Palantir's investors have rejected proposals for independent human-rights reviews of their work with ICE, DHS, police forces, and militaries.
"The lawsuit, filed by a Virginia resident, accuses the company of collecting and storing biometric information about him without his consent when he visited friends' and relatives' homes."
www.techradar.com/pro/ring-has...
