A.I., Brain Scans and Cameras: The Spread of Police Surveillance Tech

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Advances in artificial intelligence, drones and facial recognition have created an increasingly global police surveillance business. Israeli hacking software, American investigation tools and Chinese computer vision algorithms can all be bought and mixed together to make a snooping cocktail of startling effectiveness.

Fueled by a surge of spending from Middle Eastern countries such as the United Arab Emirates the event pointed to how tools of mass surveillance once believed to be widespread only in China are proliferating.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/technology/police-surveillance-tech-dubai.html
 
At the Dubai police fair, officials from the Emirates’ Ministry of Interior, which oversees state security and has access to all police cameras, demonstrated how, with a tablet, they could scan the irises of conference attendees and pull up information about when they had entered the country, complete with a recent customs photo. Also displayed was a headset that is said to detect when a part of the brain concerning memories is activated, something a ministry official said was useful during interrogations to determine if a suspect was lying.
 
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