A new investigation published today by Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy & Technology reveals the Department of Homeland Security has amassed 1.5 million people’s DNA in recent years thanks to a potentially unconstitutional and predatory legal amendment targeting marginalized communities—a 5,000-percent increase compared to its database’s previous two decades of existence. This genetic material is […]
Rite Aid is banned from utilizing facial recognition programs within any of its stores for the next five years. The pharmacy retail chain agreed to the ban as part of a Federal Trade Commission settlement regarding “reckless use” of the surveillance technology which “left its customers facing humiliation and other harms,” according to Samuel Levine, […]
A new study indicates some white people can’t tell the difference between real and AI white faces thanks to ‘AI hyperealism.’
New research indicates most users don’t fall down dangerous YouTube rabbit holes—but the site can further strengthen hateful echo chambers.
Porcha Woodruff is the third person wrongly arrested by Detroit police due to the AI software in as many years.
After nearly 50 years, the Supreme Court ended affirmative action in college admissions, changing the future of US medical schools and healthcare.
Experts say Casual Conversations v2 is an improvement, but questions still remain about its sourcing and labor.
Tyre Nichols’s death has sparked new protests around police brutality, public safety, and medical mistrust in America.
Over the past seven years, Allegheny County Department of Human Services workers have frequently employed an AI predictive risk modeling program to aid in assessing children’s risk factors for being placed into the greater Pittsburgh area’s foster care system. In recent months, however, the underlying algorithms behind the Allegheny Family Screening Tool (AFST) have received […]
This article was originally featured on Undark. Back in the year 2000, sitting in his small home office in California’s Mill Valley, surrounded by stacks of spreadsheets, Jay Rosner hit one of those dizzying moments of dismay. An attorney and the executive director of The Princeton Review Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the private test-preparation and […]
