Traffic fines as steep as $500 aren’t effectively deterring dangerous driving in the nation’s capital, some city lawmakers say. Now they want D.C. to take other, more drastic measures.
Among the proposals before the D.C. Council: allowing traffic cameras to issue points on driver’s licenses, reporting driving records of rulebreakers to insurance companies and forcing reckless drivers to take “safe driving” lessons. The accumulation of points can result in the loss of driving privileges, while a poor driving record can raise insurance premiums. Read More...
The Chinese tech giant Huawei has tested facial recognition software that could send automated “Uighur alarms” to government authorities when its camera systems identify members of the oppressed minority group, according to an internal document that provides further details about China’s artificial-intelligence surveillance regime.
A document signed by Huawei representatives — discovered by the research organization IPVM and shared exclusively with The Washington Post — shows that the telecommunications firm worked in 2018 with the facial recognition start-up Megvii to test an artificial-intelligence camera system that could scan faces in a crowd and estimate each person’s age, sex and ethnicity. Read More...
Explore More An 83-year-old North Carolina Home Depot worker has died — weeks after he was tossed to the ground trying to stop a “menace to society” shoplifter still on the loose.
Gary Rasor is seen on surveillance footage stepping up to confront a man wheeling three Ryobi power washers out of the Hillsborough store Oct. 18 — only to be shoved to the ground by the crook who then casually strolls away. Read More...