‘It Felt Like Kidnapping,’ #MahmoudKhalil Says in First Interview Since Release
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New Orleans debates real-time facial recognition legislation
New Orleans has emerged as a flashpoint in debates over real-time facial recognition technology. The city’s leaders are weighing a landmark ordinance that, if passed, would make New Orleans the first U.S. city to formally legalize continuous facial surveillance by police officers.The move follows revelations that, for two years, the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) quietly used automated alerts from a privately operated camera network known as Project NOLA that bypassed the strictures of the city’s 2022 ordinance which explicitly banned such practices. Project NOLA is a non-profit surveillance network founded by ex-police detective Bryan Lagarde.
Despite this, Project NOLA’s network was set to continuously and automatically scan public spaces. Every face that passed within view was compared in real time, and officers were pinged via an app whenever a watchlist match occurred, leaving no requirement for supervisory oversight, independent verification, or adherence to reporting standards.
Opponents argue that automated surveillance everywhere in public spaces raises profound threats to privacy, civil rights, and due process. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana described the system as a “facial recognition technology nightmare” that enables the government to “track us as we go about our daily lives.”
The wrongful arrest of Randal Reid based on misidentification from still-image facial recognition is touted as highlighting the real-world dangers of facial recognition. Reid is a 29‑year‑old Black logistics analyst from Georgia who was wrongfully arrested in late 2022 and held for six days due to a false facial recognition match.
The ACLU has urged the City Council to reimpose a moratorium and demand an independent audit covering privacy compliance, algorithmic bias, evidence admissibility, record retention, and public awareness. The organization said that NOPD currently lacks any system for logging or disclosing facial-recognition-derived evidence, and Project NOLA operates outside official oversight entirely.
A vote by the City Council is expected later this month. If passed, NOPD and any authorized third party will be legally empowered to scan live public feeds using facial recognition, provided reports are submitted according to the new law.
Meanwhile, NOPD is awaiting the outcome of its internal audit and Kirkpatrick has stated that policy revisions will be guided by the council’s decisions. Meanwhile, the ACLU and partners are preparing to escalate their opposition, pushing for either outright prohibition or deeply strengthened accountability measures.
The decision facing New Orleans encapsulates the broader tension between embracing AI-based public safety tools and protecting civil liberties. Proponents emphasize the edge that real-time intelligence can provide in stopping violent crime and responding to emergencies, while critics warn that indiscriminate surveillance erodes privacy, civil rights, and due-process safeguards.
A few things I feel are very important that none of the recent June articles about this mention:
- The city has managed to keep this all relatively under wraps. Few people are even aware of this, and even if they are they are not aware of the level of surveillance.
- This seems to be being kept in the dark even by people that we should be able to trust. I only found out about the City Council vote this month bc I make a habit of searching for updates about this every so often. I cannot find any information about when the vote is actually scheduled, just sometimes at the end of June. This is the last week of June so presumably this week?
- State Police and ICE can't be regulated by city government. There is a permanent state police force in New Orleans that was established as of last year by Governor Landry.
I believe they have continued using this technology however they please, and there is no real way for the city to regulate how they use it, and who they share it with.
New Orleans debates real-time facial recognition legislation
The landmark ordinance, if passed, would make New Orleans the first U.S. city to formally legalize continuous facial surveillance by police officers.Anthony Kimery (BiometricUpdate.com)
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Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko released after four years of Russian detention
Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko was released on June 22 after more than four years in Russian imprisonment, and has left Russian-occupied Crimea.Sonya Bandouil (The Kyiv Independent)
Shohei Ohtani is back on the mound, and the Dodgers are monitoring his return to two-way play
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Receiver planning sale of Yukon gold mine involved in contaminant release disaster
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Após fala sobre “mortezinha” em Israel, jornalista da GloboNews Eliane Cantanhêde pede desculpas - Gazeta
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Israeli occupation aircrafts launch another airstrike on #Jabalia city in northern Gaza.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine @israel
Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie
The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itselfMohamad Bazzi (The Guardian)
One UI 7: 5 dicas para economizar a bateria do seu celular da Samsung
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Iran’s president joins Tehran protest condemning US, Israel
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian joined a crowd in Tehran on Sunday condemning the US strikes on Iran.Al Jazeera
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More Intel TDX Code Merged For KVM In Linux 6.16
Merged minutes ago ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc3 release due out shortly was this week's batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates. Beyond the usual KVM fixes merged for the week, a bit of feature code was pulled in by Linus Torvalds for this post-merge-window phase...
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FR: Christoph Werner, Manager der Drogeriekette "dm" fordert " 'radikal anderes Verständnis': So gelingt Zuwanderung."
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Top-Manager fordert „radikal anderes Verständnis“: So gelingt Zuwanderung
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Russia and China push for a ceasefire as UN Security Council meets on Iran
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"DeepSeek Researchers Open-Sourced a Personal Project named ‘nano-vLLM’: A Lightweight vLLM Implementation Built from Scratch"
#AI #LLM #OpenSource
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DeepSeek Researchers Open-Sourced a Personal Project named 'nano-vLLM': A Lightweight vLLM Implementation Built from Scratch - MarkTechPost
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Trump launches PAC to oust sitting Republican congressman after strike criticism
President Donald Trump's political operation has reportedly launched a new political action committee (PAC) to oust Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican.David Edwards (Raw Story)
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Islamic State group behind deadly Damascus church attack, Syria's interior minister says
A suicide bomber who blew himself up at a church on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday was a member of the Islamic State group, Syria's interior minister said.FRANCE 24
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What are sleeper cells and why are the FBI on alert for them after Trump’s strikes on Iran?
The covert spies or terrorists live quiet and unassuming lives in America until they are called to act against the U.S.Isabel Keane (The Independent)
Hundreds take to the streets of the Hague in demonstration against NATO days before major summit
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Hundreds take to the streets of the Hague in demonstration against NATO days before major summit | Flipboard
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Hague to show their discontent at NATO's climbing defence spending and a possible war with Iran, just days before the Dutch city hosts the decisive alliance summit.Flipboard
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"ideological battles of the Fifties and Sixties. Such a thing as an independent political movement was outside her imagination; and in any case the Party was invincible. It would always exist, and it would always be the same. You could only rebel against it by secret disobedience or, at most, isolated acts of violence such as killing someone, or blowing something up. In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened.' This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him. She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was to avoid bursting out laughing. But she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her. She believed, for instance, having learnt it at school, that the Party had invented airplanes. (In his own schooldays, Winston remembered, in the late Fifties, it was only the helicopter that the Party claimed to have invented; a dozen years later, when Julia was at school, it was already claiming the airplane; one generation more, and it would be claiming the steam engine.) And when he told her that airplanes had been in existence before he was born, and long before the Revolution, the fact struck her as totally uninteresting. After all, what did it matter who had invented airplanes? It was rather more of a shock to him when he discovered from some chance remark that she did not remember that Oceania, four years ago, had been at war with Eastasia and at peace with Eurasia. It was true that she regarded the whole war as a sham; but apparently she had not even noticed that the name of the enemy had changed. 'I thought we'd always been at war with Eurasia,' she said vaguely. It frightened him a little. The invention of airplanes dated from long before her birth, but the switch-over in the war had happened only four years ago, well after she was born. He argued with her about it for perhaps a quarter of an hour. In the end he succeeded in forcing her memory back until she did."
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The 1943 Tehran Conference, where Allied leaders discussed dividing up the postwar world, sparked Orwell’s initial idea for the book as a warning about unchecked state #power.
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