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Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail – Futurism

Posted: January 1, 2021 at 9:30 am

Algorithmic Policing

New Jersey police are under fire after wrongfully accusing and arresting a suspect based on nothing more than faulty facial recognition software thats since been banned in the state. Now, hes suing.

Nijeer Parks was surprised to learn in January 2019 that police in the town of Woodbridge had a warrant out for his arrest for a list of crimes including shoplifting and aggravated assault. Parks told NJ Advance Media he had never even been to that town, but when he went to the police station, cops arrested him immediately.

He later learned that police had identified him using Clearview AIs controversial facial recognition software revealing how over-reliance on flawed policing algorithms can effectively accuse innocent people of crimes.

Because there are so many issues with the softwares accuracy and the way it obtains images from social media, NJ Advance Media reported that New Jersey State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal ordered cops to stop using the tech on January 24 2020 almost a full year after Parks was arrested.

With just the facial recognition match as proof, police interrogated Parks in camera-free rooms, held him in jail for ten days, and set off a year-long legal battle that drained Parks savings until a judge finally told prosecutors not to return unless they had real, tangible evidence against him, according to NJ Advance.

Parks has now filed a civil rights lawsuit against Woodbridges police director and mayor as well as Middlesex Countys Prosecutors Office and county jail.

The mistaken identity was solely based on facial recognition software that is illegal in the state now and was always known to be faulty, his attorney Daniel Sexton told NJ Advance Media. No actual evidence supported the charges against my client. No fingerprints or DNA, no blood type.

While the technology has been banned in New Jersey hopefully preventing more of these horror stories from happening the whole ordeal reveals what happens when faulty algorithms are left to shape peoples lives without oversight.

READ MORE: He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says [NJ Advance Media]

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The year of the impossible – Majorca Daily Bulletin

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The first article I wrote for 2020 appeared on January 2. The title was Tonight Im Gonna Party Like Its 2099. The allusion to Prince aside, the article had been inspired by the thoughts of British futurist Ray Hammond. Looking ahead to 2040, one of his predictions had to do with virtual and augmented reality. Travellers would never actually have to leave home. They could experience hotels, attractions, restaurants and so on courtesy of augmented reality.

Hammond didnt see this alternative reality replacing physical travel and tourism. Quite the contrary, as it would increase the demand for the real thing, but he had inadvertently set a theme not for future decades but for the here and now, one that was lurking just around the corner of the New Year. Life was to become virtual because there was danger lurking around every corner. While hotels, restaurants, travel werent replaced, they were - for a time - simply eliminated. Futurism doesnt deal with the impossible, because scenarios are possible - more than just possible, and a scenario that any futurist worth his or her salt could contemplate was what was about to become reality.

On February 9, the Balearic health ministry confirmed that a British citizen resident in Mallorca had been admitted to Son Espases Hospital with coronavirus. He had been at a French ski resort and had contact between January 25 and 29 with a person who had tested positive for what was being referred to as the Wuhan coronavirus.

This was the second case in the whole of Spain, the first having been that of a German citizen on the island of La Gomera in the Canaries. At the time of the confirmation in Mallorca, it was being reported that 812 people had died in China as a result of coronavirus and that over 37,000 people in the whole world were infected. A few days ago, the number of cases worldwide was over 80 million. The deaths stood at almost 1.8 million.

It was not impossible but it had nevertheless seemed impossible, and at the time of that confirmation it appeared as if governments were denying the possible; denying in fact the high probability. The virus was still somehow over there. China, the worlds second economic power, had shut borders, was building hospitals at record speed, was confining citizens to their homes. Could you imagine something like that happening here? It wasnt long before there was no need for imagination.

As things were to turn out, it became clear that governments had been fully aware of the high probability. In mid-January, the Spanish government had started to prepare. The regions were being informed that health services could be transferred almost entirely. What this meant was that the Spanish government would centralise command of public health. Which is what it did on March 14. There was not just centralisation of health. The ministries of health, transport, interior and defence were now running the whole country.

The state of alarm sounded alarming because that was exactly what the situation was. It was more than alarming, it was frightening not just because of the health risk but also because governments were acting in ways that ran counter to democratic principles. Freedoms of movement and of association (in its broadest sense) were, out of paramount necessity, being denied. The state of alarm, the lockdowns, the confinements - call them what you will - were not tools that any democratic government would wish to utilise. But they had to, and there were those who damned them. The year of the impossible bred virtual existence and it also cultivated the counter-virus culture - the control by governments, the conspiracies, the New World Order, the rantings and ramblings by the close-to certifiable.

Blame had to be sought, and so blame was duly attached. China headed the list of candidates, the paranoia and xenophobia stoked by political leaders who proved to be wholly ill-suited for a crisis of such magnitude - Trump, most obviously. In Spain, a great deal of blame was heaped on the International Womens Day rallies on March 8. This, it has to be said, wasnt without some justification, even if politically the capital was ratcheted up by Vox in particular.

The Spanish government, as it was to prove only six days later, could have prevented the rallies rather than leaving decisions to its regional delegations. In Madrid, some 100,000 people took part. The health authorities claimed that this would have had only a marginal impact on transmission. Maybe they were right, but with hindsight a mistake was admitted. There were others, such as a lack of protective equipment. While there was equivocation about the use of masks; the fact that it took weeks for them to become widely available must surely have influenced advice and then order.

The year of the impossible, yet all too possible, all too real as 2020 presented us with the ultimate reality - mortality. And it wasnt virtual.

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Gazing into the future: What life, work and travel could look like in 2021 – CBS News

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2020 brought changes and challenges to our daily lives, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. A recent American Psychological Association study found 65% of adults say the amount of uncertainty in the nation causes them stress.

While no one can forecast exactly how 2021 will unfold, futurist Erica Orange, a partner with consulting firm The Future Hunters, shared some predictions with "CBS This Morning."

Orange expects there to be permanent changes to industries and businesses, affecting supply chains, operations and workforces.

"It's like we're being shot through a cannon and almost overnight, global circumstances have changed dramatically and this is really setting the stage for everything that we see happening when it comes to the future of work," she said.

The Future Hunters help clients in tech, pharmaceutical and government identify trends that could affect business. One of those trends the firm is closely watching is working from home.

"Even after we get the vaccine, people are still going to be nervous about going into a physical office," said Orange. "Although at the same time, those that do have to report to a physical office, they're going to need that space to be redesigned and reinvented."

Research shows that COVID-19 is spread mainly through close contact between people. Companies and businesses in 2021 will have to keep this in mind as their employees return back to normalcy. Sophisticated technology such as self-cleaning elevator buttons could be seen in buildings in the upcoming months.

"This is going to be even more pronounced in the major cities where people are much more crammed together. We're also going to be seeing many more people relying on automation," Orange said.

Some tech giants such asTwitter have offered employees the choice to work from home indefinitely. Others are pushing back their reopening dates. Google has announced that it will keep employees home until at least September.

With empty office buildings in places such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Orange believes that major cities will have to adapt in more ways than in 2020.

"Just like how work is going to be completely reinvented and reimagined, we too have to reinvent and reimagine our physical cities. Transportation and infrastructure are going to go through tremendous changes," Orange said.

This also includes local coffee shops and restaurantsthat are heavily affected by foot traffic and by the revenue employees of nearby office buildings bring.

"I see a lot of these proprietors having to reinvent how it is that they reach out to workers when they aren't coming into a physical office. It's why the entire supply chain is being disrupted," she said.

The changes that the pandemic has brought is impacting the travel industry with both families and businesses seeking alternative ways to travel.

"It's going to be different and I see it playing out on both ends of the spectrum. What I mean by that is we're going to see the growth of high-tech travel and on the other end, we're going to see the growth of low-tech travel," she said.

High-tech traveling includes virtual reality and augmented reality. Experts predict that in 2021, travelers will look to technology to immerse themselves in places they cannot go.

But what experts believe is making a return to 2021 is nostalgic ways to travel. Cross-country trips with family and friends, visiting national parks and traveling via RV will likely be a popular option for the future of travel.

Orange says travelers "are kind of going back to basics and just engaging in much more simplistic acts of travel."

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Researchers believe that curators show bias while training AI models for algorithm-generated art – Digital Information World

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Art is a complex 'science' of creating various things, using different media of expression and tools. It takes years and years for an artist to completely evolve as a creator. These are terms that we nowadays use very casually. It's all because of various applications in this digitalized world that help people create any type of art with the help of AI-based algorithms. Now, some researchers from Fujitsu have published a new study in which they have shown the role of curators who create datasets to train AI models that are used by various applications to create generative art.

For their research, they surveyed different academic papers, applications that help the users create generative art with the help of AI, and various online platforms. They selected models for their research on the basis of various famous Art movements like Renaissance, cubism, futurism, impressionist art, the expressionist form of art, the post-impressionism period of art, and romanticism.

They took examples from varied genres like landscapes, war designs, and paintings, illustrations, portraits, etc. They studied the work of artists like Clementine Hunter, Mary Cassatt, Van Gogh, Gustave Dor, Gino Severini, all of them who have been famous for introducing various reforming patterns in art.

When they studied real art and compared it with the one that is reproduced by Artificial Intelligence in different applications and platforms like DeepArt and GoArt, they found out large discrepancies. During their research, they found out examples like a Cubism artwork being represented in ways that a Futuristic artwork appears, or a piece of artwork which was depicting realism by the real artist would be shown as a piece of expressionism.

So, the researchers looked into the cause of these mix-ups and imbalances, and it turned out that one important factor to blame is bias, that too, in different forms.

First off, the researchers deduced that the datasets that are used to train models for generative art are all highly reliant on the curators choices, likes, and dislikes.

Secondly, some apps were found to have trained around 45000 Renaissance portraits of white-skinned people only. Now, automatically, the apps AI generates art with white-toned people in it only, and that is the root cause of skin-tone bias.

There were many discrepancies in the labeling process also or the annotation of datasets was also found to be quite faulty. And there also, the annotators bias towards culture, beliefs, and other preferences was reflected in the labels they created. All of that inadvertently had an impact on the art that these models would generate for the lay users who wouldnt even know the faults with the actual art.

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Architects need ‘better ways to engage the public’: Rowan Moore on Trump’s classical architecture order – Archinect

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Pictured: exterior detail of the United States IRS building in Washington D.C. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress.

In fact, America has beautiful and popular non-traditional structures the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and it has crude and soulless classical buildings. Unfortunately, the authors of the order are not completely wrong when they say that some architects have ignored public feeling. The Guardian

Rowan Moore, architecture critic at The Observer, responds to last week's presidential executive order that makes classical and traditional architecture the preferred style for federal buildings.

"If architects dont want to give ammunition to the repressive thinking behind this order," Moore writes, "they have to show that there are better ways to engage the public."

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The Top predictions for cloud computing in 2021 – EnterpriseTalk

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CIOs believe that cloud infrastructure and practices will undergo drastic changes in 2021; both permanent and temporary fundamental changes are expected

2020 initiated the deployment of fundamental changes that impacted nearly every quarter in the business world. As the impact continues into 2021, cloud computing will also evolve to harmonize in the new reality.

CIOs say that the recently created remote workforce has had a significant impact on the office environment. Enterprise IT needs to be ready to face the changes as so many employees leave the on-premise workplace.

Work from home practice will further boost the migration away from geographically focused IT services to cloud-driven solutions that can be accessed from any location that has an internet connection. For this measure to be a success, leaders say that devices, networks, and applications will need to be rethought and re-implemented.

Read More: Are enterprises ready to deploy containers at a rapid pace?

It is predicted that even voice services will be shifted to the cloud. Help desk and customer service operations will be required to embrace the change by leveraging CCaaS (Contact Centre-as-a-Service) and UCaaS (Unified Communications-as-a-Service) solutions. This will be in addition to the tech innovations (which will definitely include trackers) to allow managers and supervisors to handle remote employees.

Employee migration will also modify how the data flows in networks. Such practices have a direct impact on the Edge computing and networking strategies. Eric Troyer, CMO at Megaport, says, The distribution of how data flows has been upended by the widespread shift to remote work and will force organizations to reevaluate and redefine their networking and edge computing strategies continually.

The pandemic has spurred many people to migrate away from the major cities, which means businesses will need to figure out how to support their distributed workforce with their existing infrastructure. As such, well see more of a focus on tier 2 and tier 3 cities like Nashville and Minneapolis, compared to the emphasis on cities like San Francisco and New York pre-pandemic.

As organizations shift physical hardware to employee-owned, DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service) and VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) will become more popular. Many organizations are considering implementing SD-WANs (Software Defined Wide Area Networks) compared to the cost per square foot of on-premise office space.

Latency is the main issue for connectivity. It will arise from variations in internet speeds in domestic neighborhoods. Wi-Fi speeds differ depending on the time of day, usage, and location. Bigger organizations have tried to compensate for this issue from their side by implementing business-grade connections to vital resources.

CIOs predicted way back in March 2020 that enterprises with on-premises infrastructure would move a large volume of their services to a cloud platform that is co-location or managed infra. While many organizations had already started the process, however, the pandemic has accelerated the journey considerably.

The sudden acceleration in the shift to cloud platforms also resulted in increased incidents of data breaches. Due to the lockdown, enterprises found it difficult to source the secured devices to be transported to the employees. Increased use of unsecured and personal devices resulted in an easier time for threat actors to exploit the network. John Ayers, Chief Strategy Product Officer at Nuspire, says, Businesses moved to the cloud, courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the increasing confidence in public, private and hybrid data cloud paved the way for new hurdles.

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Cloud-based security issues owing to misconfigured security measures and lack of monitoring give way for stricter security protocols and security testing capabilities. The accelerated cloud adoption means an increase in trust in infrastructure security.

Protecting cloud-based remote employees in 2021 is expected to take place in two formats dependent on the enterprise size. Organizations that can afford it will likely embrace a zero-trust security model similar to SASE. For organizations that cant afford to will likely adopt pre-existing solutions like DNS security. Employee training will mandatorily play a critical role regardless of the defense mechanism.

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This overlooked Amazon business is growing faster than its retail, cloud computing and Prime – Financial Post

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We still expect solid, if not strong growth, by traditional standards for Google in both 2020 and 2021 but increasingly Amazon is eating into that growth.

Amazon is becoming more and more a pay-to-play platform. Unless you're willing to invest in their advertising platforms, it's much more difficult to compete

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Amazon offers advertisers data that is irresistible: a closed loop that shows them how effective every dollar they spend is, and more than two decades of insight on the actual buying habits of consumers, rather than just their web-browsing habits.

I can understand better the value of $1 spent on Amazon because I can literally see the transaction, said Eric Heller, who runs the Amazon Center of Excellence at WPP, the worlds largest ad agency, which advises on how best to use Amazons platform.

Heller noted several studies had shown that people were increasingly searching for things to buy directly on Amazon, rather than on Google. For marketers, Heller said, it was the difference in reaching the person searching for athletes foot cream rather than why does my foot hurt?

The vast majority of Amazons advertising revenue is driven by this behaviour, with advertisers bidding to gain prominent spots as sponsored listings at the top of product search results, capturing the attention of the more than 200 million unique visitors to Amazon sites every month.

According to JungleScout, which provides management software to third-party sellers, the most coveted searches, such as noise-cancelling headphones, can sometimes be sold for in excess of US$7 per click a fee paid regardless of whether or not the customer goes on to buy the product.

Cloud Computing IaaS in Life Science Market Size, Share, Growth Trends, Revenue, Top Companies, Regional Outlook, and Forecast, 2020-2027 -…

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BENEFITS OF WORKING FROM HOME – Web Hosting | Cloud Computing | Datacenter | Domain News – Daily Host News

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Since the coronavirus pandemic has created a lot of fear and havoc in our lives, could there be a glimmer of hope somewhere? There sure is and its right where you live your home! If you are a working employee who is doing his job right from the humble abode of the cozy bedroom, there are benefits galore. Lets be realistic this pandemic is going to stay at least for the foreseeable future and as long as it is there, theres going to be plenty work from home opportunities for working class employees. Lets take a look at some of the benefits and perks you get while working right from your home.

1. More flexibility: Getting up and getting rushed for work is something nobody likes and youll have plenty of memories (especially bad ones) when youre already running late for work and skipping that important breakfast meal to make it to your office just in time. But not anymore! Since the break of the pandemic, many companies have asked their employees not to return to the office and instead work directly from home. Which means that you get to sleep as late as possible and wake up just in time for that morning Zoom call.

Whats more? You have immense flexibility going about doing your daily chores that may not necessarily involve any official duties such as going to the grocers, tending to your kids, baking more frequently and taking unlimited breaks between work. The flexibility that you get while working from home is truly unmatched.

2) No commute: I dont think any employee really likes the entire commuting process. What with the never-ending traffic, the jams, the incessant car honking and the rowdy road users. They always seem to zap the energy out of you even before you happen to make it to work. But say goodbye to these woes, as now you sit comfortably on the couch and make work happen.

It has been reported that an average employee spends at least 52 minutes to and fro in terms of commuting to work. This means that you end up saving at least four and a half hours on commuting time that you can now dedicate somewhere else (think: more sleep!) But in all honesty, working from home is a boon especially for mothers who have small kids to take care and can devote more time to bonding with them. The rest of us can use this extra time for more productive work such as learning a new language, setting up a side business or whatever that your heart desires.

3) Boost in productivity: There are people who always say that working from home isnt a good option because that means giving a lot of leeway to your employees who will then squander the office time. But this isnt true. According to studies conducted, employees were found to be 13% more productive working at home than at the office. This isnt just an isolated report and the reason being could be that employees feel far more comfortable in their homely surroundings and therefore able to provide far more output than in the office environs.

Sometimes people get easily distracted in their office cubicles with random colleague making a stop and gossiping about others, while spending unnecessary time at the coffee table drinking that extra cup to stay focused. At home though, the scenario is a bit different. Since those unwanted distractions arent there anymore, employees seem to perform far better at their place than at the chitter-chatter office floor.

4) Work-life balance: This is perhaps the biggest and the most important benefit an employee could ask for. Many people struggle in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. They spend long hours in the office, struggling to make their managers and superiors satisfied with their work; however that means giving up on their social life outside of work. This isnt a healthy way of living your professional dreams. Work from home thus came as a huge blessings for people who were going through this rough emotional roller-coaster and looking for a way out.

The pandemic has given all of us a respite and employees can now have a great balance managing both work and their social life. This is important as it leads to less employee turnover, less professional burnouts, a marked decrease in stress, keeps employees happy and thereby promoting a boost in their overall productivity.

5) Better communication: Lets face it work from home is a great option however it isnt going to be a fairytale episode if you dont treat it professionally. Although your office has given you the option to continue working from home, do not take advantage of it by means of dodging phone calls or work related matter. You should invest as much time and effort in building and collaborating team work by means of online available tools and software so that you get the maximum benefit out of working from home. Open communication is crucial at every stage and you must be able to communicate your thoughts and feelings to your colleagues and managers as much as you were able to do it when in office. Keeping the communication channel open means that you are receptive to their feedback and can grow as a person.

It is understandable that for many, working from home wasnt anticipated. It isnt everybodys cup of tea however since the pandemic has now shown hopeful signs of slowing down just yet, the professional show must go on. Working from home is a blessing for many and if managed well, you shouldnt be able to see much difference in the output of your work. In fact, with so much flexibility available, you should take full advantage of it and set high standards for yourself and others.

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Monthly Archives: January 2021

Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail – Futurism

The year of the impossible – Majorca Daily Bulletin

Gazing into the future: What life, work and travel could look like in 2021 – CBS News

Researchers believe that curators show bias while training AI models for algorithm-generated art – Digital Information World

Architects need ‘better ways to engage the public’: Rowan Moore on Trump’s classical architecture order – Archinect

The Top predictions for cloud computing in 2021 – EnterpriseTalk

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