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San Francisco votes to ban city use of facial recognition technology
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco officials on Tuesday voted 8 to 1 to ban the purchase and use of facial recognition technology by city personnel, in a move to regulate tools that local Silicon Valley companies helped develop.
The ordinance, which also would require city departments to submit surveillance technology policies for public vetting, can become final after a second vote next week by the same officials, the city’s Board of Supervisors.
The action puts San Francisco at the forefront of increasing discontent in the United States over facial recognition, which government agencies have used for years and now has become more powerful with the rise of cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies.
“We have a fundamental duty to safeguard the public from potential abuses,” Aaron Peskin, the city supervisor who championed the ban, said before the board’s vote.
Peskin said the ordinance was not an anti-technology policy. It allows continued use of surveillance tools like security cameras; the district attorney or sheriff can make an appeal to use certain restricted technology in exceptional circumstances as well.
Rather, Peskin said, the aim is to protect “marginalized groups” that could be harmed by the technology.
For instance, Amazon.com Inc has come under scrutiny since last year for selling an image analysis and ID service to law enforcement. Researchers have said this service struggles to identify the gender of individuals with darker skin, prompting fears of unjust arrests. Amazon has defended its work and said all users must follow the law.
Civil rights groups and companies including Microsoft Corp, which markets a facial recognition service, have called for regulation of the technology in recent months. This has added momentum to the effort in San Francisco and to a parallel ban reportedly in the works in nearby Oakland.
While communities at the heart of the technology industry are moving to limit facial recognition, police elsewhere have increased their use, primarily to spot potential suspects in known offender databases after a crime has occurred.
U.S. customs agents are vetting foreign travelers at airports with facial recognition, and other federal agencies use the technology too.
Daniel Castro, vice president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, said concerns that the U.S. government would use face identification for mass surveillance, like China has, were overblown. The non-profit includes technology industry representatives on its board.
San Francisco’s “ban on facial recognition will make it frozen in time with outdated technology,” he said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-san-francisco-facial-recognition/san-francisco-votes-to-ban-city-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-idUSKCN1SK2NH
Monster Execs sell moar shares-A-level
Cap#1 is today's filing,2&3 are recent.
Monster Beverage Corporation develops, markets, sells and distributes energy drink beverages, sodas and/or concentrates for energy drink beverages, primarily under various brand names, including Monster Energy, Monster Rehab, Monster Energy Extra Strength Nitrous Technology, Java Monster, Muscle Monster, Mega Monster Energy, Punch Monster, Juice Monster, Ubermonster, BU, Mutant Super Soda, Nalu, NOS, Burn, Mother, Ultra, Play and Power Play, Gladiator, Relentless, Samurai, BPM and Full Throttle. The Company has three segments: Monster Energy Drinks segment, which consists of its Monster Energy drinks, as well as Mutant Super Soda drinks; Strategic Brands segment, which includes various energy drink brands owned through The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC), and Other segment (Other), which includes the American Fruits & Flavors (AFF) third-party products. The Strategic Brands segment sells concentrates and/or beverage bases to authorized bottling and canning operations.
Number of employees : 2 991 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/MONSTER-BEVERAGE-CORP-22497283/company/
Monster Energy Drink Almost Killed Us, Lawsuits Claim
(well maybe you should not shotgun these fucking things-or eat something first…right?
Robert Grim was driving to work when the nausea set in. As his vision blurred, the Arizona resident pulled over to the side of the road and called in sick. His symptoms only worsened at home, he said.
The twenty-something* rushed to the emergency room that day in December 2014 and would soon learn he had stage 4 kidney disease, court papers charge.
Grim claimed he downed a can of Monster Energy before leaving the house, just as he’d always done for the last 10 years. Until his diagnosis, Grim guzzled four of the energy drinks a day—or the caffeine jolt equivalent of eighteen 12-oz cans of Coca-Cola, according to a new lawsuit filed against the beverage maker.
Now he’s on dialysis and awaiting a kidney transplant, according to the lawsuit.
Grim is one of five people to file lawsuits against Monster Beverage Corp. this month, alleging irreversible and near-fatal health problems they claim were caused by long-term use of the energy drink.
The civil suits allege habitual drinkers of the caffeine bombs suffered heart attacks, stroke, and renal failure, among other health concerns. The lawsuits allege Monster is guilty of negligence, defective design, failure to warn of risks associated with consuming the drink and other potential violations. And the attorneys say energy drinks like Monster say they’re as bad for young people as cigarettes.
“These cans lack all types of warnings,” attorney Mike Morgan, whose Florida law firm is representing the consumers, told The Daily Beast.
rest at link
https://www.thedailybeast.com/monster-energy-drink-almost-killed-us-lawsuits-claim
https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/865752.htm
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Biodelivery Sciences Execs sell shares
Cap#1 is filed today, Cap#2 is recent.
BROADFIN HEALTHCARE MASTER FUND LTD
C/O 20 GENESIS CLOSE
GRAND CAYMAN E9 KY1-1108
yeeeeea that's not suspicious at all
Broadfin Capital is based out of New York. Broadfin Capital is a large advisory firm with 3 clients and discretionary assets under management (AUM) of $645,384,755 (Form ADV from 2019-03-29). Their last reported 13F filing for Q4 2018 included $760,541,000 in managed 13F securities and a top 10 holdings concentration of 59.91%. Broadfin Capital's largest holding is SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust with shares held of 700,000. Broadfin Capital has at least 38 13F filings, 34 13D filings, 296 13G filings, and 3 Form 4 filings.
https://whalewisdom.com/filer/broadfin-capital-llc
https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1103021.htm
agree but as the post above you says they are probably just doing it to save face and abusing it. Lived there for 25 year's in/round, par for the course for that council. Just trying to keep the feds at bay it seems. See what POTUS say's
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Wendy's Exec(s) sells shares
https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/30697.htm
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remember a few of those around Ontario airport east of LA in early january