Todd Feathers

Policing

Police Are Using Gunshot Detection Tech To Justify Stop-and-Frisks

In Chicago, a government watchdog says Shotspotter alerts have only led to evidence of gun crime in 9 percent of cases.
Todd Feathers
9.13.21
Algorithmic Bias

AI Can Guess Your Race Based On X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How

Experts say medical images like X-Rays and CT scans allow algorithms to determine a patient's race—and warn it could lead to bias and discrimination.
Todd Feathers
8.23.21
police tech

More Cities Are Moving to Drop Automated Gunshot-Detection Tech

Experts say ShotSpotter is unreliable and disproportionately calls armed police into Black and brown neighborhoods.
Todd Feathers
8.3.21
algorithms

Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI

Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year.
Todd Feathers
7.26.21
police tech

Gunshot-Detecting Tech Is Summoning Armed Police to Black Neighborhoods

A Motherboard investigation found that ShotSpotter frequently generates false alerts—and it's deployed almost exclusively in non-white neighborhoods.
Todd Feathers
7.19.21
school surveillance

Tech Companies Are Already Building Tucker Carlson’s School Surveillance Fever Dream

Republicans want to stop discussions about racism by filling classrooms with cameras. We're already halfway there.
Todd Feathers
7.8.21
privacy

Debit Card Apps for Kids Are Collecting a Shocking Amount of Personal Data

Greenlight says it isn't currently selling data on kids' spending habits to advertisers, but its privacy policy suggests it could start anytime.
Todd Feathers
7.6.21
facial-recognition

Hackers Fool Facial Recognition Into Thinking I’m Mark Zuckerberg

Using a new technique, researchers say they can make AI systems misidentify people by adding small bits of data to the images.
Todd Feathers
6.24.21
SURVEILLANCE

A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers

Clerks at 7-Eleven and other convenience stores are being constantly monitored by a voice of god that can intervene from thousands of miles away.
Todd Feathers
6.21.21
facial-recognition

Facial Recognition Failures Are Locking People Out of Unemployment Systems

ID.me's CEO says unemployment fraud is costing taxpayers $400 billion, but his own company is denying claims because of problems with its tech, users say.
Todd Feathers
6.18.21
police tech

Honolulu Police Used a Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment

Local police used $150,000 in COVID relief funds to purchase Boston Dynamics' four-legged robot, Spot.
Todd Feathers
6.14.21
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips

First came facial recognition. Now, an early form of lip-reading AI is being deployed in hospitals, power plants, public transportation, and more.
Todd Feathers
6.14.21
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