[cerol]

> Project Nimbus is a joint effort of Google, Amazon, and the Israeli government that provides futuristic surveillance capabilities through the use of advanced machine learning models.

> Nimbus training documents emphasize “the ‘faces, facial landmarks, emotions’-detection capabilities of Google’s Cloud Vision API,”

The "training documents" he mentions are basically a GCP manual. [0]

"facial recognition, landmarks, emotions, ..." These are ML 101. Does my face have a second degree equation pointing up? Happy. Is it pointing down? Sad. It's like the car dealer rambling about the leather seat that reclines, when you're only interested in the horsepower. It's a sales pitch.

This reminds when the Intercept made a whole piece about the brazilian DMV's "dystopian system" that could "integrate multiple data sources" just to say it was a SQL join.

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22119705-core-infra-...

[lovelearning]

The simplicity or complexity of the technical implementation doesn't change the intention in any way.