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Verkada Inc is a Silicon Valley startup and the company’s camera security system is used widely from companies to hospitals around the world. Make sure to sign up for our Daily IT Wire Newsletter to get all the news that matters directly in your mailbox every day.Another massive hacking incident shook the world as a group of hackers successfully compromised the security camera systems of Verkada Inc. Add us to your Alexa Flash Briefing or your Google Home daily briefing. Hashtag Trending is a part of the ITWC Podcast network. That’s all the tech news that’s trending right now. Since the pandemic began, cellphone mobility data has been used as a way to determine how people are behaving and as a good indicator of where the pandemic is headed. Environics defines mobility as the percentage of residents 15 or older who travelled 500 metres or more beyond their home postal code. 28, average mobility across Ontario increased from 58 per cent to 65 per cent, according to the marketing firm Environics Analytics. Yikes.Ĭellphone data shows that more people are on the move again and shopping despite experts warning of a third coronavirus wave.

From the spreadsheet, it’s not clear which specific customers are deploying Verkada’s facial recognition capabilities however, those features appear to be basic functions of the cameras.

There is also a spreadsheet that Hackers shared with Vice Motherboard showing more than 24,000 unique entries of organizations that use the cameras. Verkada’s cameras can also filter individuals by their gender, clothing colours and other attributes. Bloomberg also reports that hackers accessed live video feeds from companies such as Tesla and Cloudflare, and even jails and hospitals. The breach has shown facial recognition-enabled cameras in bars, parking lots, schools. Vice is reporting that hackers managed to access live feeds of thousands of cameras globally as well as its customer list. Verkada, a popular surveillance and facial recognition camera company, has been compromised by hackers. Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of Facial Recognition from technology Last May, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the platform would not interfere with inflammatory posts from Trump, Twitter, on the other hand, was more active and used alerts to warn readers of misleading to manipulated content. He’s also criticizing the algorithms that determine what users see and describes them as dangerous. Isaacson says he’s concerned about how people feel enraged, and spread misinformation. According to a report by a U.K.-based advocacy group, Center for Countering Digital Hate, Instagram suggested about one false post per week to each of 15 profiles created by the nonprofit.

Walter Isaacson who wrote the biography of Steve Jobs says social media platforms should take more responsibility for the extremism and misleading information. House subcommittee this month regarding the spread of misinformation linked to the 2020 election and COVID-19. The CEOS of Facebook, Google, and Twitter will appear before a U.S. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Thursday, March 11, and I’m your host Baneet Braich.įacebook and Twitter algorithms incentivize ‘people to get enraged’: Walter Isaacson from technology It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. The CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter will face questions about misinformation, hackers breach surveillance cameras globally, and cellphone data shows more people are on the move.