[Link] ​​Tech Firm Offers Cops Facial Recognition to ID Homeless People

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

“Police use ODIN facial recognition to identify even non-verbal or intoxicated individuals,” the brochure from surveillance firm ODIN Intelligence reads. ODIN’s specific homelessness product is called ODIN Homeless Management Information System, or ODIN HMIS.

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[Link] New York City’s Billionaires’ Row Just Got Its Very Own Homeless Shelter

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Residents of Manhattan’s so-called Billionaires’ Row—a smattering of ultra-posh, super-expensive skyscrapers abutting Central Park—just might have to encounter poor people after all.

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