{"id":85957,"date":"2023-03-07T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85957"},"modified":"2023-03-07T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:30:18","slug":"dc-this-doesnt-surprise-me-but-its-yet-another-example-of-opaqueness-involving-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/07\/dc-this-doesnt-surprise-me-but-its-yet-another-example-of-opaqueness-involving-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"DC: This doesn&#8217;t surprise me. But it&#8217;s yet another example of opaqueness involving technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/03\/07\/facial-recognition-fbi-dod-research-aclu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>FBI, Pentagon helped research facial recognition for street cameras, drones<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Drew Harwell<br \/>\n<em>Internal documents released in response to a lawsuit show the government was deeply involved in pushing for face-scanning technology that could be used for mass surveillance<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The FBI and the Defense Department were actively involved in research and development of facial recognition software that they hoped could be used to identify people from video footage captured by street cameras and flying drones, according to thousands of pages of internal documents that provide new details about the government\u2019s ambitions to build out a powerful tool for advanced surveillance.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">This doesn&#8217;t surprise me. But it&#8217;s yet another example of opaqueness involving technology. And who knows to what levels our Department of Defense has taken things with AI, drones, and robotics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI, Pentagon helped research facial recognition for street cameras, drones &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Drew Harwell Internal documents released in response to a lawsuit show the government was deeply involved in pushing for face-scanning technology that could be used for mass surveillance Excerpt: The FBI and the Defense Department were actively involved in research and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,252,9,403,285,353,480,454,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-digital-photography","category-digital-video","category-ethics","category-legislation-legislatures","category-moralsvalues","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85960,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85957\/revisions\/85960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}