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How video analytics and facial recognition are fighting crime

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Security surveillance just got smarter thanks to the development of video analytics and facial recognition technology. With millions of closed-circuit...

Privacy in the age of performance crime fighting

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Why privacy is becoming a collateral of crime fighting

Daniel Sanchez5 years ago

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Tech giants like Google and Apple could be helping catch criminals with technologies already built in gadgets we use everyday....

Technology

Citywide facial recognition cameras could be cool and worrying

Ben Allen5 years ago

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Moscow has, according to TechCrunch, turned on facial recognition for the city's CCTV cameras. And that's OK, apparently, because there is...

Web

DOJ under fire for warrant attempting to collect anti-Trump website visitor data

Omar Elorfaly5 years ago

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The US legal system gets another reality check as the Department of Justice (DOJ) completely flops its attempt to get the...

Web

FBI allowed to continue secretly obtaining your data from tech companies: court

Ben Allen5 years ago

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The FBI will be allowed to continue issuing National Security Letters (NSLs) under nondisclosure laws according to a ruling by...

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CIA-backed, NSA-approved Pokemon GO users give away all privacy rights

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Pokemon GO users swept up in the phenomenon are willingly giving away their rights to privacy by agreeing to download...

Niall Dorr, Innovation Manager at Netwatch and Professor Noel O’Connor, a Principal Investigator in CLARITY

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New surveillance technology analyses video for human characteristics, greatly reduces false alarms

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Netwatch, an established security company that specialises in crime prevention technologies, has developed a surveillance technology that can distinguish between human and non-human activity, greatly reducing the number of false alarms issued to key holders, security guards and members of the police force.

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Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.