Patent application looks at smart doorbell sniffing, ACLU reacts

Facial recognition tech added to video-laden doorbells to track "suspicious" people? Sounds like a thorny concept, as people are still reeling over privacy and the lack thereof in very recent times. "Face" it, facial recognition emotionally are words that are the current opposites of mom and apple pie. And now this: CNET reported that Amazon's Ring was taking heat in the corridors of opinion for even considering facial recognition for its video doorbells.

The application was revealed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month and reported by CNET along with other sites. Ben Fox Rubin in CNET reported that the video and audio-laden doorbell company called Ring (Amazon acquired Ring this year) filed a facial recognition patent application which drew criticism for considering ways of using Ring's products to spot suspicious people in a neighborhood and then alert law enforcement.

He quoted a statement from the ACLU that "Amazon is dreaming of a dangerous future." Concern is twofold, that such usage could invite a surveillance state seeking to target political activists and seeking to target those unfairly deemed as threats to the public.

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-12-patent-application-smart-doorbell-sniffing.html

Next-generation of GPS satellites are headed to space

After months of delays, the U.S. Air Force is about to launch the first of a new generation of GPS satellites, designed to be more accurate, secure and versatile.

But some of their most highly touted features will not be fully available until 2022 or later because of problems in a companion program to develop a new ground control system for the satellites, government auditors said.

The satellite is scheduled to lift off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It's the first of 32 planned GPS III satellites that will replace older ones now in orbit. Lockheed Martin is building the new satellites outside Denver.

GPS is best-known for its widespread civilian applications, from navigation to time-stamping bank transactions. The Air Force estimates that 4 billion people worldwide use the system.

But it was developed by the U.S. military, which still designs, launches and operates the system. The Air Force controls a constellation of 31 GPS satellites from a high-security complex at Schriever Air Force Base outside Colorado Springs.

Compared with their predecessors, GPS III satellites will have a stronger military signal that's harder to jam—an improvement that became more urgent after Norway accused Russia of disrupting GPS signals during a NATO military exercise this fall.

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-next-generation-gps-satellites-space.html

Updated harder to jam GPS.

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Playboy model who posed naked at Vatican in controversial photoshoot arrested

Playboy model who posed naked at Vatican in controversial photoshoot arrested

"…Papen and Australian photographer Jesse Walker, who runs the ENKI Eyewear brand and took the snaps in Egypt and Turkey, have reunited for another controversial photoshoot as part of an ENKI sunglasses campaign and for a soon-to-be-announced personal project."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/playboy-model-poses-naked-vatican-13744712

ENKI mentioned in front of the Vatican

https://www.annunaki.org/enki-enlil/

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Wave propagation path?