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DHS says its facial recognition system, in use at 15 US airports now, identified 7K travelers who overstayed visas, plans to screen 97% of US departures by 2023 — The US immigration system was designed to track who comes into the country, not who leaves. For more than two decades …
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| Washington Post: |
Sri Lanka blocks access to social media platforms, including WhatsApp and Facebook, to curb spread of misinformation after a series of deadly explosions — LONDON — The Sri Lankan government blocked access to social media platforms on Sunday, following a string of explosions that claimed …
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
How two towns in Kansas soured on educational software from Summit Learning, funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; Summit CEO says protests are about nostalgia — WELLINGTON, Kan. — The seed of rebellion was planted in classrooms. It grew in kitchens and living rooms, in conversations between students and their parents.| Ellen Sheng / CNBC: |
A look at the rising use of surveillance technologies by companies to monitor their employees in the workplace — The emergence of sensor and other technologies that let businesses track, listen to and even watch employees while on company time is raising concern about corporate levels of surveillance.| Annaliese Griffin / Quartz: |
A look back at a distinctly gendered condescension that has often defined the news coverage of Pinterest because of its overwhelmingly female audience — Even as Pinterest prepares to go public, tech journalists covering the company remain slightly befuddled when it comes to defining what it does.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The French government debuts Tchap, its messaging app with end-to-end encryption, and open sources the code; a security flaw has already been found and patched — French government open-sources in-house-made end-to-end encryption IM app named Tchap. — The French government has developed …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
A comprehensive look at the plethora of face datasets, available upon request from universities and US government, used to train facial recognition software — When Jillian York, a 36-year-old American activist, was on vacation in February, she received an unexpected text.
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| Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post: |
A promo video for Leica showed the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” photo, so China banned the word Leica on Weibo; the camera maker says it wasn't an official video — Leica draws fire from online commenters and is censored on Chinese social media platform Weibo Spokeswoman …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Boom, one of seven tiny fact-checking firms Facebook hired before India's elections, which finds fighting misinformation a Sisyphean task — - The company has hired contract firms during India's elections — At least one fact-check team says it's struggling to keep up
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| Richard Moss / Polygon: |
On Game Boy's 30th anniversary, a behind-the-scenes account of how Nintendo leveraged games like Tetris and Pokémon to appeal to the North American market — We look back ahead of the console's 30th anniversary — Nintendo couldn't do much wrong, come 1989.| Zak Doffman / Forbes: |
Report: CIA shared intelligence with US allies showing Huawei received funding from Chinese security and intelligence agencies and the People's Liberation Army — In the battle between Washington and Huawei, there has long been the taunt from Shenzhen that U.S. officials have failed to produce …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
UK Government Digital Service says users can now ask Google Assistant or Alexa for answers from 12K data items on gov.uk like how to get free childcare — Smart speakers are great for answering basic questions, like “what's the weather tomorrow” or “what's the population of Brazil” (it's 209.3 million, in case you were wondering).
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