The San Mateo County Sheriffâs Office is considering purchasing a facial recognition software created by the company Clearview AI after testing it around 2,000 times.
A BuzzFeedNews investigation published late last month found that use of the software, which compares photographs of people to images from public web sources like social media in order to identify them, was widespread. It found thousands of government entities and private businesses in the United States and abroad using the software, and attributed the information to an anonymous source.
Among the users it found was the San Mateo County Sheriffâs Office, which was said to have logged around 2,000 uses of the software between 2018 and 2020. When first asked by BuzzFeed reporters about the departmentâs use of the software, Public Information Officer Rosemerry Blankswade reportedly said, âNo one is able to speak about these matters at this time.â
New Push Aims to Bring Speed Cameras to California
California cities could soon set up automated cameras to catch and ticket speeders on their most dangerous streets, if lawmakers pass a bill being introduced Tuesday in a state where speed cameras are effectively banned. by Nico Savidge, Mercury News / March 16, 2021 Shutterstock/Pozdeyev Vitaly
(TNS) California cities could soon set up automated cameras to catch and ticket speeders on their most dangerous streets, if lawmakers pass a bill being introduced Tuesday that is sure to reignite debate over speed cameras in a state where they are effectively banned.
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ICE pulls out of career fair following student activism
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After it was discovered that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, was invited to a career fair held Thursday by the UC Berkeley Career Center, student activists petitioned to disinvite the organization from the event. While ICE chose to withdraw from the event, many UC Berkeley students became concerned over how undocumented students may be supported by campus.
Last Updated March 15, 2021
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, pulled out of a UC Berkeley career fair after student activists petitioned to disinvite the agency from the Thursday event.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has filed a new complaint against the Tulare County Jail for its living conditions during the pandemic, alleging that the jail is failing to adequately test for COVID-19 and that its social distancing policy violates inmates’ constitutional rights. Filed last Thursday in federal court, the supplemental complaint is the latest development in a lawsuit originally brought against the jail last summer.
The initial complaint from July alleged that the jail didn’t provide masks to incarcerated people for months into the pandemic, and that new visitation policies ostensibly prevented inmates from meeting with attorneys. In an interview with FM89 at the time, Sheriff Mike Boudreaux acknowledged that inmates were not given masks until July, but denied that the jail’s legal visitation policy was unnecessarily restrictive.