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How will ICE's deportation teams use iris scanning technology?
On August 7th, America's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a notice they intended to purchase an iris scanning technology that can identify "suspects and inmates who try to hide their identity". Unsurprisingly, it's raised some red flags.
Plus, online game marketplaces have removed more than 20,000 titles after an "anti-porn" group, Collective Shout, pressured payment processors. Several LGBTQIA+ creators have been censored as part of the move.
And in case you thought you'd escaped AI for a week, more than 130,000 AI chatbot records have been made public, and Trump has launched an AI search engine for Truth Social.
GUESTS:
Josh Taylor, technology reporter for the Guardian Australia.
Josh Taylor, technology reporter for the Guardian Australia.
Phoebe Toups Dugas, Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing in the Exertion Games Lab at Monash University.
This episode of Download This Show was made on Gadigal land and in Meanjin.
Technical production by Ross Richardson.
