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Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy?

June 25, 2019

Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy?  The recent Financial Times investigation revealed that Microsoft had collected discreetly a facial recognition database of some 10 million images of some 100,000 people. They apparently used it for facial recognition software. When the FT began investigating, Microsoft discretely deleted the database. The public dataset, called ‘MS Celeb,’ included […]

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Is China Really More “Dystopian” Than The UK?

December 6, 2018

Is China Really More “Dystopian” Than The UK? RT reported that the UK’s so-called “National Data Analytics Solution” will see an algorithm process whichever of 30 separate data points have been recorded about a person in local and national police databases in order to predict which members of the population are most likely to commit […]

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Minority Report Comes To Life: UK Police Will Use AI To Prevent Crime

November 28, 2018

Minority Report Comes To Life: UK Police Will Use AI To Prevent Crime With increasing availability of information and new technologies, West Midlands Police in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England, has taken a page from the 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film, Minority Report, and will soon deploy artificial intelligence to stop crime before it […]

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Censorship in the Digital Age

October 22, 2017

Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]

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China Goes Full “Minority Report”, Creates “Pre-Crime” Program

March 7, 2016

China Goes Full “Minority Report”, Creates “Pre-Crime” Program By now, the world is largely familiar with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s fabled “Tigers and Flies” campaign. Since taking office in 2013, Xi has embarked on an ambitious effort to root out party corruption and ensure that the directives passed down from on high in the Politburo […]

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‘Minority Report’ Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality

September 29, 2015

‘Minority Report’ Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make […]

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The World of Philip K. Dick is Almost Here

May 5, 2015

The World of Philip K. Dick is Almost Here Holographic Computers and Self-Directing Bullets Philip K. Dick was long viewed as a mere genre hack, although his fans always knew better of course. He used the medium of science fiction originally because it was the only way for him to make money as an independent […]

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