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North Korea to put Chinese surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces to monitor citizens, report says
Fox News correspondent Stephanie Bennett joins'Fox News Live' to break down recent evidence tying missile fragments in Russian attacks to North Korea. North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces and collecting fingerprints, photographs and other biometric information from its citizens in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely, a report said Tuesday. The state's growing use of digital surveillance tools, which combine equipment imported from China with domestically developed software, threatens to erase many of the small spaces North Koreans have left to engage in private business activities, access foreign media and secretly criticize their government, the researchers wrote. But the isolated country's digital ambitions have to contend with poor electricity supplies and low network connectivity. Those challenges, and a history of reliance on human methods of spying on its citizens, mean that digital surveillance isn't yet as pervasive as in China, according to the report, published by the North Korea-focused website 38 North. The study's findings align with widely held views that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is stepping up efforts to tighten the state's control of its citizens and promote loyalty to his regime.
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How Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank
In the occupied Palestinian territories, there are cameras everywhere. In Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, residents say cameras were installed by Israeli police up and down their streets, peering into their homes. One resident named Sara said she and her family "could be detected as if the cameras were just in our house … we couldn't feel at home in our own house and had to be fully dressed all the time." Surveillance cameras now cover the Damascus Gate, the main entrance into the old city of Jerusalem and one of the only public areas for Palestinians to gather socially and hold demonstrations. It's at that gate that "Palestinians are being watched and assessed at all times", according to an Amnesty International report, Automated Apartheid.
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Silent Sentry: Rail-mounted Robots With AI For Surveillance Along LoC
By Avinash Prabhakar New Delhi, July 12: The Silent Sentry is one among the 75 Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled defence products, which were launched by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the event'AIDef' (Artificial Intelligence in Defence)' on Monday. Out of the total AI defence products launched, many have already been deployed while the others are in the process of being deployed. The Silent Sentry is a key technology developed by the design bureau of the Indian Army to plug the gaps in Surveillance networks.They are rail-mounted Robots to be used as additional features to enhance Surveillance along the Line of Control (LoC). The fully 3D printed robot slides can be installed on the fences and in the Anti Infiltration Obstacle System (AIOS).The Robots which function autonomously within set limits can be controlled by computers, tablets and Android apps. The robot traverses on metal rails between two set points and utilises an electric motor for propulsion.The robot communicates by creating an ad-hoc network running on 2.4 Ghz Wi-Fi standards.
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Amazon's Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen Lauren Bridges
In a 2020 letter to management, Max Eliaser, an Amazon software engineer, said Ring is "simply not compatible with a free society". We should take his claim seriously. Ring video doorbells, Amazon's signature home security product, pose a serious threat to a free and democratic society. Not only is Ring's surveillance network spreading rapidly, it is extending the reach of law enforcement into private property and expanding the surveillance of everyday life. What's more, once Ring users agree to release video content to law enforcement, there is no way to revoke access and few limitations on how that content can be used, stored, and with whom it can be shared.
Smart CCTV Networks Are Driving an AI-Powered Apartheid in South Africa
Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of Digital Colonialism: US Empire and the New Imperialism in the Global South, and hosts the Tech Empire podcast. "Beggars" and "vagrants" are not welcome in Parkhurst, South Africa, a mostly white, middle-class suburb of about 5,000 on the outskirts of Johannesburg's inner city. Criminals are on the prowl, residents warn, and they threaten their neighborhood security. To combat crime, the locals came up with a solution: place CCTV surveillance cameras everywhere. However, these are not the camera networks of times past. Thanks to advancements in machine learning and AI, CCTV systems are now equipped with sophisticated video analytics that can track a wide range of behaviors, objects, and patterns, in addition to individual faces. Armed with powerful new tech, communities of color can be watched, flagged, policed, and intimidated into submission. I've spent the past several years studying the video surveillance industry in South Africa. During that time, a private corporation called Vumacam has been quietly assembling a "smart" CCTV surveillance network in the suburbs of Johannesburg. Earlier this year, the company announced it would blanket Joburg with 15,000 cameras.
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US government looking to develop AI that can track people across surveillance network
An advanced research arm of the U.S. government's intelligence community is looking to develop AI capable of tracking people across a vast surveillance network. As reported by Nextgov, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has put out a call for more information on developing an algorithm that can be trained to identify targets by visually analyzing swaths of security camera footage. The goal, says the request, is to be able to identify and track subjects across areas as large as six miles in an effort to reconstruct crime scenes, protect military operations, and monitor critical infrastructure facilities. To develop the technology, IARPA will collect nearly 1,000 hours of video surveillance from at least 20 camera networks and then, using that sample, test various algorithms effectiveness. The agency's interest in AI-based surveillance technology mirrors a broader movement from governments and intelligence communities around the globe, many of whom have ramped up efforts to develop and scale systems.
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Facial Recognition AI Used To Hunt Down Wanted Man In A Crowd Of 60K
We all know very well that China has a surveillance network with more than 170 million cameras that can identify a person in minutes. By the way, the network is operating at full speed: with the help of Facial Recognition AI (artificial intelligence) system, Chinese police identified a fugitive and arrested in the midst of 60,000 people accompanying a show. China has a surveillance network with more than 170 million cameras that can identify a person in minutes. By the way, the network is operating at full speed: with the help of an artificial intelligence system, Chinese police identified a fugitive and arrested in the midst of 60,000 people accompanying a show. This is a 31-year-old man identified only as Ao.
Smart cameras catch man in 60,000 crowd
Chinese police have used facial recognition technology to locate and arrest a man who was among a crowd of 60,000 concert goers. The suspect, who has been identified only as Mr Ao, was attending a concert by pop star Jacky Cheung in Nanchang city last weekend when he was caught. Police said the 31-year-old, who was wanted for "economic crimes", was "shocked" when he was caught. China has a huge surveillance network of over 170 million CCTV cameras. Mr Ao was identified by cameras at the concert's ticket entrance, and apprehended by police after he had sat down with other concert goers.
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