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FBI Reportedly Harvesting Publicly Available “Weapon” Info<\/a><\/p>\n

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is initiating Project Tyr, an effort in its infancy to employ Amazon\u2019s artificial intelligence-driven Rekognition cloud service to identify firearms\u2014among other things\u2014and the people associated with them. According to the\u00a0bureau\u2019s description<\/a>\u00a0(on the last page) the software \u201c\u2026 offers pre trained and customizable computer vision (CV) capabilities to extract information and insights from lawfully acquired images and videos. Currently in initiation phase to customize to review and identify items containing nudity, weapons, explosives, and other identifying information.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news came as a shock to a digital community primarily concerned about privacy and inaccurate facial recognition. Amazon placed a moratorium on law enforcement\u2019s use of Rekognition\u2019s facial recognition software in June 2020, extended the moratorium in 2021 and released a statement explaining the latest FBI effort will only use the program\u2019s other assets.<\/p>\n

\u201cRekognition is an image and video analysis service that has many non-facial analysis and comparison features,\u201d Amazon spokesperson Duncan Neasham explained to\u00a0FedScoop<\/a>, the outlet that broke the news on January 25. \u201cNothing in the Department of Justice\u2019s disclosure indicates the FBI is violating the moratorium in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative may be fueled, in part, by the number of convicted felons willing to post photos of themselves on social media while holding a gun and\/or clearly stating ownership. That violation of the law has helped re-incarcerate criminals in Florida<\/a>,\u00a0Indiana<\/a>,\u00a0Iowa<\/a>,\u00a0Massachusetts<\/a>,\u00a0Nebraska<\/a>\u00a0and dozens, if not hundreds, of others in the last year alone.<\/p>\n

Identifying those instances falls well within the FBI\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0stated goal to, \u201c\u2026 protect the American people and uphold the U.S. Constitution.\u201d Today, its team of roughly 35,000 relies heavily on the latest forensic and investigative technology and routinely explores innovative new techniques, including this one. Precisely how it will harness Rekognition or the baseline used in the search for firearms\u2014and whether that information is cataloged\u2014has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

The Federal Government is not alone in its reliance on sometimes controversial software, however. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the New York City Police Department, for example, has been using facial recognition since 2011, can put 19 drones in the air, has video monitoring for loitering and more. For a look at systems employed by your city, county and state the organization has a free and easy-to-use\u00a0Atlas of Surveillance<\/a>\u00a0online.<\/p>\n

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FBI Reportedly Harvesting Publicly Available “Weapon” Info The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is initiating Project Tyr, an effort in its infancy to employ Amazon\u2019s artificial intelligence-driven Rekognition cloud service to identify firearms\u2014among other things\u2014and the people associated with them. According to the\u00a0bureau\u2019s description\u00a0(on the last page) the software \u201c\u2026 offers pre trained and customizable … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100196,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100193\/revisions\/100196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}