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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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They cannot carry out any reconciliation, interconnection or automated linking with other processing of personal data.” In response, some companies use face-blurring tools to reduce the possibility of a leak containing personal data. Other researchers propose recording video from directly overhead, to avoid recording people’s faces.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. He went on to earn a master's degree in computer science in 2008, also from Loyola. Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru. and a Ph.D.

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