Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
According to the ACLU, which American city is the largest to ban face recognition?
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Based on our experience in recent client matters, we have seen an escalating threat posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) workers engaging in sophisticated schemes to evade US and UN sanctions, steal intellectual property from US companies, and/or inject ransomware into company IT environments, in support of enhancing North Korea’s illicit weapons program.
Hint: Yesterday, Boston (the second largest city to ban the tech) lawmakers voted to ban the technology because of studies showing it is inaccurate in identifying people of color. Boston Councilor Ricardo Arroyo said, “It has an obvious racial bias and that’s dangerous. But it also has sort of a chilling effect on civil liberties. And so, in a time where we’re seeing so much direct action in the form of marches and protests for rights, any kind of surveillance technology that could be used to essentially chill free speech or … more or less monitor activism or activists is dangerous.”
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