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  1. Huge shoutout to the #NoToFusus coalition last night for their win in beating #FUSUS and preventing further funding for dystopian surveillance. #MNPD in tears.

    #Nashville is safer knowing the cops aren't watching our every move.

    #fusus #StopCopCity #acab #tennessee #uspol #politics #antifa

  2. Big week for #Nashville.

    The Tennessee Drivers Union had a successful strike downtown yesterday, driving a caravan through Broadway.

    The day before, the anti-FUSUS coalition showed up to city council and got a deferment of the vote. A temporary victory but a victory nonetheless.

    And earlier this week protestors also showed up to resist the annual AmRen nazi conference. Many of the groups who have protested this in the past stepped back due to the heavy police presence in recent years, so it was a good surprise to see people still show up and continue the fight.

    Not to mention all the other organizing happening, such as reMix's training on Sunday to prepare for the fight against deportations, the multiple Trans Day of Remembrance events, or the post election town hall last night. Nashville is kicking into gear and it's great to see all this energy.

    #politics #tennessee #nash #antifa #notofusus #fusus #midtn #tdu #labor #union

  3. #Bodycam Maker #Axon Is on a Mission to Surveil America with #AI
    Axon, maker of #Tasers and #police #bodycameras, acquired AI #surveillance company #Fusus amid a push into retail and healthcare. This “expands and deepens” companies’ so-called real time capabilities. Fusus operates what it calls “real time crime centers (RTCC)” which allow police and other agencies to analyze a wide array of video sources at single point and apply AI that detects objects & people. vice.com/en/article/m7bwp4/axo #privacy

  4. #USA #Surveillance #AI #PoliceState #FUSUS: "More than a hundred local police departments, sheriff’s offices, and cities have set up an AI-powered camera system, with nearly 200,000 connected cameras belonging to residents and businesses around the country able to provide “direct access” to law enforcement, according to a 404 Media analysis of a set of scraped data.

    Although likely not fully comprehensive, the data provides the clearest picture yet of the growing popularity of Fusus, a company and platform that qualitatively changes what surveillance cameras mean for a town’s residents and public agencies. Fusus turns dumb cameras into smart ones, with object recognition capabilities for items, people, and specific vehicles; it funnels usually siloed camera feeds into one central location for law enforcement, and lets agencies survey what surveillance coverage they have across their jurisdiction.

    “Whether it’s a drone, a traffic camera, a private cell phone video, or a building security camera, FUSUS can extract the live video feed and send it to our Intelligence Center and officers in the field,” one memorandum 404 Media previously obtained reads."

    404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-m

  5. #Videoüberwachung: Wie die #Polizei mit vernetzten privaten Kameras amerikanische Kleinstädte überwacht

    "US-amerikanische Polizeien nutzen #Videoüberwachungssysteme, die private und staatliche #Überwachung vernetzen. Zum Einsatz kommt dabei auch ein System namens #Fusus. Es bündelt beliebig viele Live-Übertragungen und soll mittels „künstlicher Intelligenz“ auch gezielt nach Personen und Objekten fahnden können."
    #KI #Überwachung
    netzpolitik.org/2023/videouebe

  6. #USA #Surveillance #Fusus #Biometrics #Privacy #FacialRecognition: "Spread across four computer monitors arranged in a grid, a blue and green interface shows the location of more than 50 different surveillance cameras. Ordinarily, these cameras and others like them might be disparate, their feeds only available to their respective owners: a business, a government building, a resident and their doorbell camera. But the screens, overlooking a pair of long conference tables, bring them all together at once, allowing law enforcement to tap into cameras owned by different entities around the entire town all at once.

    This is a demonstration of Fusus, an AI-powered system that is rapidly springing up across small town America and major cities alike. Fusus’ product not only funnels live feeds from usually siloed cameras into one central location, but also adds the ability to scan for people wearing certain clothes, carrying a particular bag, or look for a certain vehicle.

    404 Media has obtained a cache of internal emails, presentations, memos, photos, and more which provide insight into how Fusus teams up with police departments to sell its surveillance technology. All around the country, city councils are debating whether they want to have a system that qualitatively changes what surveillance cameras mean for a town’s residents and public agencies. While many have adopted Fusus, others have pushed back, and refused to have the hardware and software installed in their neighborhoods."

    404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-t

  7. @jasonkoebler

    A private surveillance corporation embedding itself into public agencies using people's cameras to spy on the population.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    #Fusus

    fusus.com/

  8. Fusus is deploying smart camera technology that historically has been used in places like South Africa, where experts warned about it creating an ever present blanket of surveillance.

    Now, tech with some of the same capabilities is being used across small town America.

    Rather than selling cameras themselves, Fusus’ hardware and software latches onto existing installations, which can include government-owned surveillance cameras as well as privately owned cameras at businesses and homes.

    It turns dumb cameras into smart ones. “In essence, the Fusus solution puts a brain into every camera connected with the system,” one memorandum obtained by 404 Media reads.

    “The lack of transparency and community conversation around Fusus exacerbates concerns around police access of the system, AI analysis of video, and analytics involving surveillance and crime data, which can influence officer patrols and priorities,” Beryl Lipton, investigative researcher at activist organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told 404 Media in an email.

    “In the absence of clear policies, auditable access logs, and community transparency about the capabilities and costs of Fusus, any community in which this technology is adopted should be concerned about its use and abuse.”

    #fusus #serveillance #ai #camera
    404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-t