To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words
Oakland in California. Like many other American cities, today it is covered with hundreds of hidden microphones and sensors, part of a system known as ShotSpotter, which not only alerts the police to the sound of gunshots but also triangulates their location. On verifying that the noises are actual gunshots, a
…
human operator then informs the police. These systems are not cheap—ShotSpotter reportedly charges $40,000 to $60,000 a year per square mile—but they are hardly the latest word in crime detection. Why bother with
…
some of the tasks of faulty sensors and easily distracted human operators. It’s not hard to imagine other ways to improve a system like ShotSpotter. Gunshot-detection systems are, in principle, reactive; they might help to thwart or quickly respond to crime, but they won’t root it out. The
…
sensor technology, and the ability to tap into vast online databases allow us to move from identifying crime as it happens—which is what the ShotSpotter does now—to predicting it before it happens. Instead of detecting gunshots, new and smarter systems can focus on detecting the sounds that have preceded
…
“What the utopian denounces”: Thomas Molnar, Utopia: The Perennial Heresy (London: Tom Stacey Ltd., 1972), 6. 182 ShotSpotter: Ethan Watters, “Shot Spotter,” Wired, March 2007, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/shotspotter.html. 183 PredPol: on PredPol and predictive policing in general, see “Sci-fi Policing: Predicting Crime before It
…
industry SenseCam Sensors 7-Eleven Sexual predators Shapiro, Ian Shaw, Steven Shirky, Clay and critics and digital revolution and Eisenstein Shklar, Judith Shopping, on-line ShotSpotter Shoup, Donald The Silicon Jungle Singer, Peter Singly (start-up company) Singular network myth Situational crime prevention (SCP) critiques of and exclusionary strategies See also
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain · 27 May 2009 · 629pp · 142,393 words
users could come close to realizing Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren’s ideal” of privacy). 43. ShotSpotter is a company that offers some examples of this technology. See ShotSpotter, ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System (GLS) Overview, http://www.shotspotter.com/products/index.html (last visited June 1, 2007) (providing an overview of the company’s
…
products); Ethan Watters, Shot Spotter, WIRED MAGAZINE, Apr. 2007, at 146—52, available athttp://www.shotspotter.com/news/news.html (discussing the
…
use and effectiveness of this technology); see also ShotSpotter, ShotSpotter in the News, http://www.shotspotter.com/news/news.html (last visited June 1, 2007) (providing links to articles discussing the company
…
Sender ID, 193–94 sensors: cheap, 206, 208–9, 210, 221; ubiquitous, 212–13 September 11 attacks and PATRIOT Act, 186–87 SETI@home, 90 ShotSpotter, 314n43 signal neutrality, 182 Simpson, Jessica, 53 Skype, 56–57, 58, 59, 60, 102, 113, 178, 180, 182 Slashdot, 217 smoking bans, 118 snopes.com
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill · 19 Sep 2023 · 487pp · 124,008 words
where. And there was a large TV, which was always tuned to Fox News. The most interesting interactive screen in the room was devoted to ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system with acoustic sensors placed in key locations in the city, for which the department paid $800,000 a year. It made
…
of the morning in a majority-Black neighborhood called Overtown. The system let him play the captured audio. It sounded to me like fireworks, but ShotSpotter had labeled it “High capacity” and “Full auto,” suggesting that it was from an assault rifle. Gooty said it sounded like fireworks to him as
…
well but that shooters sometimes cover up gunshots with fireworks. Regardless, anytime ShotSpotter detects what it thinks is a gunshot, a police car is sent, sirens on, to check it out. “The system becomes our 911 caller,” Gooty
…
of Miami’s cameras seemed to be far lower resolution and not as widely distributed as officers would have liked. Time and time again, when ShotSpotter went off, it would be in a blind spot, out of camera view. After the festival, each evening, the festivalgoers flooded out into the street
…
, 240, 242 September 11 attacks, 28, 64, 235 Sequoia Capital, 113 sex workers, 197–199, 221–222 Sherman, Rob, 144 Shirley cards, 179 ShopperTrak, 242 ShotSpotter, 232–233, 234 Showing Up for Racial Justice, 57 Shteyngart, Gary, 34 Six Flags amusement park, 151–152 Slack, 10 Slashdot, 104 Smartcheckr contractors for
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
databases stocked with 120 million facial images, give law enforcement unprecedented search capability. But beyond looking for trouble, our sensors can listen as well. Take ShotSpotter,3 a gunfire detection technology that gathers data from a network of acoustic sensors placed throughout a city, filters the data through an algorithm to
…
6, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2013/08/06/machine-to-machine-connections-the-internet-of-things-and-energy/. 3 See http://www.shotspotter.com. 4 Clive Thompson, “No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking,” Wired, December 6, 2012, http://www.wired.com/2012/12/20
…
Commission (SEC), US, 172 security-related sensors, 43 sensors, see networks and sensors Shapeways.com, 38 Shingles, Marcus, 159, 245, 274–75 Shirky, Clay, 215 ShotSpotter, 43 Simply Music, 258 Singh, Narinder, 228 Singularity University (SU), xi, xii, xiv, 15, 35, 37, 53, 61, 73, 81, 85, 136, 169, 278, 279
The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of Firearms
by Iain Overton · 15 Apr 2015 · 436pp · 125,809 words
. Of course, many would say the American police are entirely justified in arming themselves to the teeth – look at what they have to contend with. ShotSpotter, a company that specialises in gunfire detection through urban listening monitors, looked at the data from forty-eight American cities over 2013. The company found
…
looked at, they found on average over eight bullets were shot every single day for an entire year within a single square mile; http://www.shotspotter.com/policy-implications 35. Others would contest this figure as being on the low side. As the Washington Post reported: ‘Officials with the Justice Department
Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Jerry Kaplan · 3 Aug 2015 · 237pp · 64,411 words
of inches, not to mention if you could add additional ones at will facing in various directions. Consider, for instance, how much better the automated ShotSpotter system is at locating gunshots than the police are. Similarly, there’s no reason for the means by which robots pursue their goals to be
…
Quant), 51–53, 58, 95, 96, 97, 103 shipping, 39 costs of, 100, 101 delivery and, 141–42, 177 “free,” 101 warehouse stacking and, 144 ShotSpotter system, 43 Silicon Valley startups, x–xi, 64–65, 95–96, 127, 144, 223–24n15 disruption of industries by, 16 personal wealth from, 109 restricted
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias · 19 Aug 2019 · 458pp · 116,832 words
continuously streamed just for them—not for their entertainment but to enable that world’s modulation or management in their interests. When the CEO of Shotspotter, makers of algorithmically processed surveillance mechanisms for the law enforcement sector, was asked to disclose his company’s data to the US public, he responded
…
model for knowledge, 8; for telematics, 65. See also self-tracking Shared Value, 135 sharing economy (gig economy), 13, 59–63, 108 Shilliam, Robbie, 74 Shotspotter, 134 Sidewalk Labs (Google), 150 Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, xiv–xv, 90, 195–96, 204 Siri (Apple), 133 Skam (Facebook), 109–10 skin-embedded microchips, 172
The Rights of the People
by David K. Shipler · 18 Apr 2011 · 495pp · 154,046 words
a cop holding a mug shot after all.13 Not only sights but also sounds are being fed into police computers, with more accurate results. ShotSpotter, a system installed in a few American cities, can determine a gunshot’s location within ten to twenty feet by triangulating the noise received by