The software for predictive policing is highly ineffective in forecasting criminal…
Ana Lalley, police chief of Elgin, Illinois, expressed dissatisfaction with the software in her 2019 master's…
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The Maker of ShotSpotter Is Buying the World’s Most Infamous Predictive…
SoundThinking, the companyWIRED has learned that ShotSpotter, the company responsible for the gunshot-detection…
The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires
The personal data for Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was requested 226…
The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That
While negotiations started with Young and Schumer, they didn’t end there. Rather, the pair heard input from other…
AI-Generated Voice Deep Fakes Aren’t Scary Good—Yet
The threat of scammers using voice deepfakes in their cons is real, but researchers say old-school…
A Privacy Hero’s Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI’s Future
Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded…
