AI Surveillance: FaceBook Doubles Down Development Deployment of Censorship Tech

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/technology/facebook-hate-speech-extremism.html
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/combating-hate-and-extremism/
https://gifct.org/press/actions-address-abuse-technology-spread-terrorist-and-violent-extremist-content/

Facebook on Tuesday announced a series of changes to limit hate speech
and extremism on the social network, expanding its definition of
terrorist organizations and planning to deploy artificial intelligence
to better spot and block live videos of shooters. The company is also
expanding a program that redirects users searching for extremism to
resources intended to help them leave hate groups behind. The New York
Times reports: The announcement came the day before a hearing on
Capitol Hill on how Facebook, Google and Twitter handle violent
content. Lawmakers are expected to ask executives how they are
handling posts from extremists. In its announcement post, Facebook
said the Christchurch tragedy "strongly" influenced its updates. And
the company said it had recently developed an industry plan with
Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Amazon to address how technology is
used to spread terrorist accounts. Facebook said that it had mostly
focused on identifying organizations like separatists, Islamist
militants and white supremacists. The company said that it would now
consider all people and organizations that proclaim or are engaged in
violence leading to real-world harm. The team leading its efforts to
counter extremism on its platform has grown to 350 people, Facebook
said, and includes experts in law enforcement, national security,
counterterrorism and academics studying radicalization. To detect more
content relating to real-world harm, Facebook said it was updating its
artificial intelligence to better catch first-person shooting videos.
The company said it was working with American and British law
enforcement officials to obtain camera footage from their firearms
training programs to help its A.I. learn what real, first-person
violent events look like.



https://apnews.com/d1f77d3dd2684d7e8d7d47cbd192d8dd

A growing number of countries are following China's lead in deploying
artificial intelligence to track citizens.  The Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace says at least 75 countries are actively using AI
tools such as facial recognition for surveillance. The index of
countries where some form of AI surveillance is used includes liberal
democracies such as the United States and France as well as more
autocratic regimes. Relying on a survey of public records and media
reports, the report says Chinese tech companies led by Huawei and
Hikvision are supplying much of the AI surveillance technology to
countries around the world. Other companies such as Japan's NEC and
U.S.-based IBM, Palantir and Cisco are also major international
providers of AI surveillance tools. Hikvision declined comment
Tuesday. The other companies mentioned in the report didn't
immediately return requests for comment. The report encompasses a
broad range of AI tools that have some public safety component. The
group's index doesn't distinguish between legitimate public safety
tools and unlawful or harmful uses such as spying on political
opponents. "I hope citizens will ask tougher questions about how this
type of technology is used and what type of impacts it will have,"
said the report's author, Steven Feldstein, a Carnegie Endowment
fellow and associate professor at Boise State University. Many of the
projects cited in Feldstein's report are "smart city" systems in which
a municipal government installs an array of sensors, cameras and other
internet-connected devices to gather information and communicate with
one another.