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the. palestinian teenager and two men are killed by israeli soldiers at the gaza border with eight other protesters wounded who journalists working with was caught up in the violence. we just woke up from inhaling it suffocating. the night doing. their calls in the u.s. to stop authorities using amazon's facial recognition to left wrongly matched photos of members of congress with criminals. johns like spotify have still not made a single cent of profit we look at how this puts that workers and even consumers to risk.
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good evening and welcome you watching doxie international. israeli soldiers at the gaza border killed three palestinians including a teenager and wounded a t. that's according to gaza's health ministry people have been demanding the return of territories they claim is sturrock lee belong to palestine journalist working with r.t. dari was covering developments that she was quoting tear gas fired by the israeli defense force protest. this stuff here just add drone that. does. it mean. for. the not doing. to the body of the body. we just woke up
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from inhaling its effect i think you guys i think it's going to go to you just one more time by all the tear gas canisters and despite other life in unison the palestinian protesters continue to protest and are still very very close to the fence participating in the great much of return and this is not the first time and they have been facing this violence and this excessive force but they have been witnessing this for more than eighteen weeks now most of the injuries today have been injured in the upper part of the body where most of them are in the chest in the stomach conduct in that and the had this is one of the injuries that was shot with live ammunition from that is right the snipers that you said those palestinian minister of have stated that most of the injuries today are from live ammunition this is a protest that was killed denise just then people are saying that she's shot killed very did. just for us to be here but despite everything we're still here covering
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all the israeli violence against the palestinians live ammunition we can hear live ammunition and more injuries are coming from the frontline. it's really military has said that it responded in accordance with the rules of engagement and that it was defending the border it accuses mass of using the protests to try and breach the barriers voters to the gaza border have been ongoing now for almost four months .
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u.s. lawmakers and the american civil liberties union raising the alarm over amazon's facial recognition tool now that's after it falsely much photos of members of congress with criminals there are now calls for a ban on its use by law enforcement and identification with that accurate or not could cost people their freedom or even their lives congress must take these threats seriously hit the brakes and enact a moratorium on law enforcement use of face recognition. the american civil liberties union compared photos of all the members of the u.s. congress with a large database of criminal mug shots and was and facial recognition till may twenty eight matches all of them false eleven of the mismatches involve people of color and that's prompted additional concern the inning claims that the till has an inbuilt racial bias with forty percent of the mismatches involving people of color that's even know congress which form the test group is overwhelmingly white we
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spoke to technology analyst project k. about the issue when the after is trained to recognize faces it has to train on a corpus and the corpus is made up of lots of the images of people and if for whatever reason the images are mainly prosecution people then you will be better at recognizing them some of the minorities if they weren't well represented in the training center so i think that's the technical side of it but if you're just grabbing any images that you find and many of them will be dark you know absolutely people who have darker skin tones may just do just may be harder to see it should be understood that visual recognition is not a matter of photograph and period to another photograph and say no this one looks like that and that's what that's what is human we do know what a computer do ours is though the measures point. in may the
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a.c.l.u. revealed amazon is trying to sell its facial recognition technology to government and police agencies that let numerous civil liberties groups to join together to campaign against it even amazon workers join the protests but the technology is already being tested by some u.s. police department. but next of course comedy as kate says you could expect is a public safety commission is already working with government agencies to deploy this technology at the a.c.l.u. we obtain records that show that amazon signed a secrecy agreement with one county to keep details about the technology out of public view they've also invited law enforcement to suggest new features and they offered free consulting to help the city of orlando build its own system and was honest hit back at the a.c.l.u. test though saying that it uses lower accuracy settings than recommended while eighty percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of hot dogs chairs animals or other social media use cases it wouldn't be appropriate for identify an
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individual us with a reasonable level of certainty when he is in facial recognition for law enforcement activities we got customers to set a threshold of at least ninety five percent or higher management point of view what they said was that the train there are law enforcement clients not to use the software or who are making decisions but rather to narrow down the pool to where shuman can look at the final results and verify yes these do make sense the people who are not the same people amazon is saying well we think it's quite helpful we can find lost children we can find criminals and things and that's all very positive but then the a.c.l.u. is saying yes but you also may use that as a way to sweep up people there's a possibility of abuse of the technology and there's also the use of it for a good. twenty corporations like tesla and
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spotify are seeing huge losses down bushell looks at the raisins and how their employees and consumers could be affected. wall street soaring around all time peak and driving that growth locomotive these guys who corporations like tesla spotify and dropbox are invested darlings committing even the general public who use their everyday products to buy in a role. big terrace by five is the leader in stream music i say some sometimes the most successful american tech company. just one tiny problem these firms are losing a rethink money tesla is worth more than car colossus is ford or general motors despite selling a skyline fraction of the cause and losing billions music streaming giant spotify
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is just announced vast losses now the biggest alltop in the world but it's lost money every year of its life and last year the worst an i was four and the whole of billion the hope is one fine day will book. in to cause while uploading spotify music to the dropbox cloud or something like that but new economy new danger these aren't small companies anymore they affect millions of workers and users and cracks beginning to show suggesting far from expanding some of starting to fire their workforce and in the new economy relationships are shall we say complicated hundreds of thousands of paid for tesla cause the poor company hasn't even built if it goes bust these ordinary people would likely be quote wiped out definitely there's a there's a bubble not just in tech stocks but in the general stock market itself in the u.s.
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we're already seeing companies like general electric to caterpillar and so. the others. wells fargo in financial stress that there are signs of financial fragility as i call it where francia fragility is really a condition where the cash flow to finance previous debt becomes insufficient and they can't roll over the debt and they can't borrow the debt so then they have to default or sell off some of their assets first or better assets and then they did they default that after the can't sell off those assets well that financial fragility in my book systemically jilin the global economy is an indicator of pending financial instability and i think we're approaching that and we may see that emerge in the next year or two. the company behind the infamous trump russia dossier will soon have to face questions its long been trying to avoid
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that's after a judge in the u.s. ordered fusion g.p.s. to give sworn testimony in a lawsuit brought by russian tech guru has filed a defamation suit against the dossiers author along with the media company that released that buzz feed alexy google have claims that he's been falsely accused of being a russian intelligence officer the trunk also known as the steel dossier is a private intelligence reports it contains allegations of collusion between donald trump's presidential campaign and the russian government and it was published in full by buzz feed last january r.t. samira com has more. but fusion g.p.s. will now have to answer questions regarding its role in compiling the steel dossier the very dossier that made headlines a world wide for its unverified salacious allegations about donald trump before his inauguration now lawyers will be able to ask a fusion g.p.s. representatives about its clients how they verify their claims and why they hired
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christopher steele and they'll also have the opportunity to find out the nature of the firm's interactions with government officials and media outlets now the russian entrepreneur is a lawyer who filed these claims against buzzy and still called it a victory this ruling gave us everything that we had hoped for after a year of trying everything they could think of to avoid being deposed fusion is finally going to have to sit down and answer our questions fusion g.p.s. hasn't revealed any information regarding the dossier claiming that it would violate confidentiality clauses in free speech rights but for some background the firm was hired in april twenty sixth by the clinton campaign and the d.n.c. to investigate trump's allegedly to russia for a fever about one point eight million dollars then fusion hired former m i six operative christopher steele and then buzz feed to publish the dossier even though it wasn't verified now fusion g.p.s. will have until august thirty first to sit in for the deposition but it's possible
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that the revelations that will come out of that hearing will be more scandalous than the dossier itself. has released a suspected islam is terrorist who was deported from germany two weeks ago so it is claimed not enough evidence against the man although they did an investigation is still ongoing. sammy i do d. is an alleged al qaeda member and was accused by the german interior minister of being one of the sama bin laden's bodyguards living in germany since nine hundred ninety seven and later applied for asylum there in two thousand and six although that bid was unsuccessful he was arrested and subsequently deported from the country earlier this month in two thousand and ten the administrative court of docile doff prevented the deportation of sami by duty it was concerned that he could be exposed to torture and inhumane treatment in tunisia at the time a number of german politicians said that the court was in the wrong were free to
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wait sami in tunisia is not a problem of german taxpayers to protect and financially equipped any islamist while less and less remains for our own people is not acceptable but it suits chancellor angela merkel's vision for germany is allegedly a hate preacher he has al qaeda training and is said to have been the bodyguard have been lauded and anyone who thinks that we've done something terrible to sami a has to weigh up how long this man has already been in the country and how long we have tolerated this security risk almost that he. should have been left in germany for ten years and sadly. the way he was in tunisia where he was planted there is. cause to question the rule of law in germany.

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