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The studio’s new transparency report counts the first-person footage it licenses to train Fullfield Ambient. Who is in that footage, and whether they know, is left to the licensor.
Faith Odera joined the data labeling company’s first cohort in Nairobi in 2016 and trained many of the people who now train others. She says she left over a single client project, which she will not name.
An employment tribunal found that Halden Rook unfairly dismissed an associate who had raised concerns about its “narrative risk” work. It also recorded that the firm keeps files on named journalists and critics, compiled from what they publish.
Police and the private companies that sell them tools: cameras, phone extraction, social media monitoring, data brokers.
Records from a public safety agency show the social media monitoring tool tracking the accounts of people who organized demonstrations over a police shooting, alongside accounts flagged for violence. Tellwright says its customers define the categories.
Audit logs from three small towns show their license plate cameras answering lookups from agencies in 29 states, through sharing settings that council members say they never voted on.
Forensic checks of phones belonging to seven journalists found traces that matched components of Handset, the phone surveillance product Tellwright sells to governments. None of the reporters knew. Tellwright says it does not discuss its customers.
People who are measured, scored and watched at work, including the workers who train automated systems.
Larchcombe’s new Residence Code follows a former house manager’s claim over on-call hours. It also puts in writing a practice former staff described last year: handing personal phones to the house manager for the whole working day.
The Los Angeles studio lets performers pull a title from public access at any time. Performers who have done so say nobody could tell them whether footage of them was used to build Fullfield Ambient, the tool that fills its scenes with people who do not exist.
She had worked for the family for 18 months through Larchcombe, a Seattle agency whose former staff say house managers held their phones for most of the working day. The agency says it has given the authorities everything it holds.
Hospitals, medical equipment and the companies that finance, connect and control it.
For nine hours, monitors at a small hospital showed a service message instead of patients’ vital signs while its account with Wardmore Health Capital was in dispute. Wardmore says no patients were adversely affected.
Lobbyists, crisis firms and the people paid to manage what the public hears.
Halden Rook, which advises companies and institutions on what to say when things go wrong, says the line was never used. The episode offers a rare look at how the London firm prepares its clients, and whom it prepares them for.
Where data comes from, where it is kept, and what it costs the people around it.
Oxenfurt’s Bystanders report, paid for by a foundation that part-owns an implant maker, says its device tests were staged with consenting volunteers. The ethics committee’s minute on the study’s second amendment records only “reserved business.”
Cordgrass Data runs the ten generators at its SEC1 site for monthly tests, during power cuts and, it confirmed, when the grid operator pays large users to come off the grid in a heat wave. The houses to the west get the exhaust.
Lower rates for hospitals depend on investors’ confidence that equipment will be paid for. Service hold is how we give them that confidence, and we use it rarely.
Starting today we will publish a small amount of clearly labeled partner content, including from a company we cover. Here is why, and the rules that come with it.
What goes into a responsible use report, and what we learned writing our sixth.