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Uber applies for patent to spot drunk passengers
Taxi app company Uber has applied for a patent to use artificial intelligence to determine how drunk potential passengers might be.
The app used to summon rides could also feed other information to the driver, including a passenger's location, how accurately they are typing and even the angle they are holding their phone at.
It could help drivers who do not want to pick up inebriated riders.
But critics said it could also be used to identify vulnerable passengers.
According to the application to the US patent office, the system would spot "uncharacteristic user activity".
Also at The A.V. Club.
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Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are
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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:40PM (7 children)
Next thing you know we'll be forcing people to make wedding cakes for gay couples.
Slavery really isn't dead in the USA, its just hidden. If, as owned property, you're not allowed to say "no" to an economic transaction, then you're a slave.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:24PM (1 child)
Bigotry and hate are alive and well also.
We'll probably always have them.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @12:31AM
The little girl screamed in pain and begged the man for mercy. In response, the man stopped violating her and started searching his person for something. He checked his pockets, his wallet, and his jacket, and then shook his head as though to indicate that he could not find whatever he was looking for. After this, he grinned; it was truly terrifying, as was apparent from the girl's expression of horror. Indeed, this man had no mercy to spare. Thus, the agonized screams resumed and continued for hours to come...
On that day, a child's mutilated, violated corpse was tossed into a dumpster as if it were nothing more than trash. And it was trash, since there was nothing left to utilize.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:48PM (4 children)
You'll probably have a hard time finding a liberal around here who thinks this is a totally fine invasion of privacy.
Try again with your strawman, maybe it is time to realize why government regulation is an incredibly GOOD thing. Such as making a law against this sort of invasive tracking / analyzing. Anyone caught trafficking private data will be punished accordingly, it is the new drug war! the INFO WARS!
Oh you're losing by the way. I'm not gloating, it actually is pretty sad how you infowars devotees are so bent in the brain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @12:37AM (3 children)
While I agree we need serious improvements when it comes to privacy, I have very little confidence in governments which themselves conduct unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace, as the US government does.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 15 2018, @01:46PM (2 children)
Trust the government. The solution is government regulation. There is no problem so great it cannot be solved by adding a new government regulation. Even too much government regulation can be solved by adding more government regulation. And taxes.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @04:50PM (1 child)
Some things do require laws.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 18 2018, @02:43PM
Yes. Some things do require laws. I strongly agree. There is a middle ground between don't regulate anything, and too much regulation.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.