IT gurus warn facial recognition software is backdoor means for surveilling upon Internet users
Whistleblowers have previously said that the US government has a poor track record in protecting minors, including from trafficking. For instance, in April, Tara Lee Rodas, a whistleblower from the US Department of Health and Human Services, said that the US government has become the “middleman” in the transport of unaccompanied minors across the US-Mexico border.
Revealed: Experts worry Big Tech is investing in facial age-verification technology to promote child porn
But the companies also concede that “a third of people in the European Union and the United Kingdom to date have been blocked by facial age estimation,” leading to questions about the true accuracy of the technology. And a February 2022 Sifted article states that the technology “is usually able to accurately estimate age to within a four to six-year range,” and “as recently as 2018, the accuracy wasn’t where it should be on darker skin tones.”
How 1958 Tutsi aristocracy arrogant response to Hutu push for equity sowed seeds of the 1994 Rwanda genocide
Moreover, Rwanda’s European colonial rulers were intent upon preserving what they saw as “traditional” structures of power in which Tutsi aristocrats ruled over Hutu peasants. This model, based on colonialist interpretations of monarchical structures in the centre of the country, was not accurate even for central Rwanda, much less for regions on the periphery.
Puzzled Kremlin on backfoot as Ukrainian drone disables Russian warship at Novorossiysk port
The Kremlin referred questions to the defence ministry, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Ukrainian source shared a grainy video that looked like it had been shot from the top of a maritime drone that sails right up to the side of a large vessel before the video abruptly cuts out and turns to pixels.
