Združeno kraljestvo želi, da migranti kriminalci z uro skenirajo svoje obraze do petkrat na dan

Na kratko The UK’s Home Office and Ministry of Justice want migrants with criminal convictions to scan their faces up to five times a day using a smartwatch kitted out with facial-recognition software.

Plans for wrist-worn face-scanning devices were discussed in a data protection impact assessment report from the Home Office. Officials called for “daily monitoring of individuals subject to immigration control,” po za The Guardian ta teden in predlagal, da bi morali vsi taki vstopniki v Združeno kraljestvo ves čas nositi pritrjene oznake na gležnju ali pametne ure.

Maja je britanska vlada oddala pogodbo v vrednosti 6 milijonov funtov podjetju Buddi Limited, proizvajalcu zapestnice, ki se uporablja za spremljanje starejših ljudi, ki jim grozi padec. Zdi se, da je Buddi zadolžen za razvoj naprave, ki bi lahko posnela slike migrantov in jih poslala organom pregona v skeniranje.

Location data will also be beamed back. Up to five images will be sent every day, allowing officials to track known criminals’ whereabouts. Only foreign-national offenders, who have been convicted of a criminal offense, will be targeted, it is claimed. The data will be shared with the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office, it’s said.

“The Home Office is still not clear how long individuals will remain on monitoring,” commented Monish Bhatia, a lecturer in criminology at Birkbeck, University of London.

“They have not provided any evidence to show why electronic monitoring is necessary or demonstrated that tags make individuals comply with immigration rules better. What we need is humane, non-degrading, community-based solutions.”

Talk to Meta’s AI chatbot

Meta je uvedla svojo najnovejšo različico svojega virtualnega pomočnika Blenderbot 3, ki ga poganja jezikovni model, ki ga poganja strojno učenje, in ga postavila na internet, da lahko vsakdo klepeta z njim.

Traditionally this kind of thing hasn’t ended well, as Microsoft’s Tay bot prikazan leta 2016 ko so spletni troli našli pravo besedno zvezo, ki jo je uporabila, da bi programska oprema pobrala in ponovila nove besede, kot so nacistična čustva.

People just like to screw around with bots to make them do stuff that will generate controversy – or perhaps even just use the software as intended and it goes off the rails all by itself. Meta’s prepared for this and is using the experiment to try out ways to block offensive material.

“Developing continual learning techniques also poses extra challenges, as not all people who use chatbots are well-intentioned, and some may employ toxic or otherwise harmful language that we do not want BlenderBot 3 to mimic,” je reklo. “Our new research attempts to address these issues.

Meta bo zbirala informacije o vašem brskalniku in vaši napravi prek piškotkov, če preizkusite model; lahko se odločite, ali želite, da pogovore beleži Facebook starš. Vendar bodite opozorjeni, Meta lahko objavi, kar vnesete v programsko opremo, v javnem naboru podatkov. 

“We collect technical information about your browser or device, including through the use of cookies, but we use that information only to provide the tool and for analytics purposes to see how individuals interact on our website,” it je dejal v pogostih vprašanjih. 

“If we publicly release a data set of contributed conversations, the publicly released dataset will not associate contributed conversations with the contributor’s name, login credentials, browser or device data, or any other personally identifiable information. Please be sure you are okay with how we’ll use the conversation as specified below before you consent to contributing to research.”

Razveljavitev prepovedi prepoznavanja obraza

Več ameriških mest je sprejelo zakone, ki dovoljujejo policiji uporabo programske opreme za prepoznavanje obrazov, potem ko so bili sprejeti prejšnji odloki, ki so omejevali to tehnologijo.

CNN je poročal, da so lokalne oblasti v New Orleansu v Louisiani in v zvezni državi Virginia med nekaterimi, ki so si premislile glede prepovedi prepoznavanja obraza. Programska oprema je tvegana v rokah organov pregona, kjer so posledice napačne identifikacije škodljive. Tehnologija lahko napačna identifikacija temnopolti ljudje, na primer.

Those concerns, however, don’t seem to have put officials off from using such systems. Some have even voted to approve its use by local police departments when they previously were against it.

Adam Schwartz, višji odvetnik pri Electronic Frontier Foundation, Rekel CNN “the pendulum has swung a bit more in the law-and-order direction.”

Scott Surovell, državni senator v Virginiji, je dejal, da morajo biti organi pregona pregledni glede uporabe prepoznave obraza in da morajo obstajati omejitve za zmanjšanje škode. Policija lahko na primer uporablja programsko opremo za iskanje novih sledi v primerih, je dejal, vendar ne bi smela uporabiti podatkov za aretacijo nekoga, ne da bi prej opravila preiskavo. 

“I think it’s important for the public to have faith in how law enforcement is doing their job, that these technologies be regulated and there be a level of transparency about their use so people can assess for themselves whether it’s accurate and or being abused,” he said. ®