Civil Surveillance (39)

Video and data surveillance by public and private entities.

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  • Wired
  • 2020
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Facial Recognition Applications on College Campuses

After student members of the University of Miami Employee Student Alliance held a protest on campus, the University of Miami Police Department likely used facial recognition technology in conjunction with video surveillance cameras to track down nine students from the protest and summon them to a meeting with the dean. This incident provided a gateway into the discussion of fairness of facial recognition programs, and how students believe that they should not be deployed on college campuses.

  • Wired
  • 2020
  • 5 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2008
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Drones and Gatekeeping Natural Resources

Memo lives in a small Mexican rural village with his father. This narrative reveals that access to water in the area surrounding their village is limited; one company oversees a watering hole where people pay to replenish their supply. This business, Del Rio Water Company, builds dams and other means of controlling the water supply, and uses drones to protect these against suspected aqua-terrorists who might seek to take back control of it.

  • Kinolab
  • 2008
  • 5 min
  • CNN
  • 2010
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Why face recognition isn’t scary — yet

Algorithms and machines can struggle with facial recognition, and need ideal source images to perform it consistently. However, its potential use in monitoring and identifying citizens is concerning.

  • CNN
  • 2010
  • 7 min
  • The New York Times
  • 2019
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She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Biometrics Database

Biometric facial recognition software, specifically that used with arrest photos in the NYPD, makes extensive use of children’s arrest photos despite a far lower accuracy rate.

  • The New York Times
  • 2019
  • 7 min
  • Slate
  • 2019
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Facebook’s Face-ID Database Could Be the Biggest in the World. Yes, It Should Worry Us.

Discussion of Facebook’s massive collection of human faces and their potential impact on society.

  • Slate
  • 2019
  • 10 min
  • Quartz
  • 2019
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China embraces its surveillance state. The US pretends it doesn’t have one

A comparison of surveillance systems in China and the US which target, and aid in the persecution of, ethnic minorities. Data on targeted people is tracked extensively and compiled into intuitive databases which can be abused by government organizations.

  • Quartz
  • 2019
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