Surveillance – Unite.AI

August 11, 2025 August 11, 2025

By Antoine Tardif, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI

Red Wolf, Blue Wolf: AI-Powered Facial Recognition and the Surveillance of Palestinians

By Antoine Tardif, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI

Few places on Earth are as relentlessly surveilled as the occupied Palestinian territories.In the streets of Hebron, at crowded checkpoints in East Jerusalem, and in the...

July 16, 2025 July 16, 2025

By Zac Amos

Is AI Getting Better at Predicting Crime?

By Zac Amos

Sci-fi books and movies have imagined a future where police can predict crimes long before artificial intelligence (AI) made it possible. Now, it’s not just a...

March 1, 2025 March 1, 2025

By Antoine Tardif, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI

Israel’s Trojan Horse: How Ghana’s Pegasus Purchase Ignites Privacy Concerns Across Africa

By Antoine Tardif, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI

In the shadowy world of international espionage and digital surveillance, few names evoke as much controversy as Israel’s NSO Group and its infamous Pegasus spyware. As...

February 15, 2025 February 15, 2025

By Antoine Tardif, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI

China’s Watchful Eye: AI Surveillance in Uganda

By Antoine Tardif, CEO & Founder of Unite.AI

This marks the first in a series by Unite.AI exploring the growing connections between international government bodies and AI surveillance. Across the globe, state-driven surveillance programs...

January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025

By Danya Golan, VP Marketing at Hailo

A Delicate Balance: Protecting Privacy While Ensuring Public Safety Through Edge AI

By Danya Golan, VP Marketing at Hailo

In our modern age, communities face several emerging threats to public safety: rising urbanization, increased crime rates and the threat of terrorism. When addressing the combination...

January 14, 2025 January 14, 2025

By Zac Amos

Are AI-Powered Traffic Cameras Watching You Drive?

By Zac Amos

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere today. While that’s an exciting prospect to some, it’s an uncomfortable thought for others. Applications like AI-powered traffic cameras are particularly...

September 13, 2023 September 13, 2023

By Zac Amos

AI Is Supercharging the Capabilities of Security Cameras

By Zac Amos

When you hear about security today, it’s often about cybersecurity — especially when AI’s involved. Still, the need for physical protection hasn’t gone away, and AI...

August 1, 2022 August 1, 2022

By Martin Anderson

‘Degraded’ Synthetic Faces Could Help Improve Facial Image Recognition

By Martin Anderson

Researchers from Michigan State University have devised a way for synthetic faces to take a break from the deepfakes scene and do some good in the...

July 2, 2022 July 2, 2022

By Alex McFarland

Engineers Create AI Railroad Trespassing Detection Tool

By Alex McFarland

A team of engineers at Rutgers has developed an AI-enabled tool that can detect trespassing on railroad crossings, helping reduce the increasing number of fatalities taking...

June 30, 2022 June 30, 2022

By Alex McFarland

Kogniz Introduces Computer Vision Platform for Gun Detection

By Alex McFarland

Advanced AI-based computer vision company Kogniz has announced its ready-to-deploy gun detection module as part of the latest version of its technology, which predicts, detects, and...

March 30, 2022 March 30, 2022

By Zac Amos

The State of AI in Policing

By Zac Amos

Advanced technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), are leveraged by many companies in various industries to help fuel business growth, achieve efficiencies and support human workers.Organizations that...

January 6, 2022 January 6, 2022

By Martin Anderson

CSET: China Leads the World in Computer Vision Surveillance Research

By Martin Anderson

A new report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) has found that China’s research sector produces ‘a disproportionate share’ of research into three...

October 14, 2021 October 14, 2021

By Martin Anderson

Facebook: ‘Nanotargeting’ Users Based Solely on Their Perceived Interests

By Martin Anderson

Researchers have developed a method to deliver a Facebook ad campaign to just one person out of 1.5 billion, based only on the user’s interests, and...

September 9, 2021 September 9, 2021

By Martin Anderson

AI Uncovers the Secret Activity Revealed by Blank Walls

By Martin Anderson

A research collaboration, including contributors from NVIDIA and MIT, has developed a machine learning method that can identify hidden people simply by observing indirect illumination on...

September 8, 2021 September 8, 2021

By Martin Anderson

Identifying Drivers’ Mobile Phone Abuse With Polarizing Filters and Object Recognition

By Martin Anderson

Researchers in the UK have proposed a roadside system to automate the detection of illegal mobile phone usage among drivers, using classic photo-optical filters and infra-red...