Cape Town city app adds emergency response

Cape Town city app adds emergency response

A safety and security reporting feature has been added to the city’s app. (Image: supplied) Cape Town’s safety and security directorate has added emergency reporting to the city’s mobile application. The functionality, developed by the emergency policing incident control team within the safety and security directorate, allows the public to report by-law and criminal acts….

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Africa: AI – ‘African Govts Are Using ‘Smart City’ Systems to Monitor Dissent and Consolidate State Control’

Africa: AI – ‘African Govts Are Using ‘Smart City’ Systems to Monitor Dissent and Consolidate State Control’

CIVICUS discusses the spread of AI-powered surveillance in Africa with Wairagala Wakabi, executive director of the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) and co-editor of Smart City Surveillance in Africa: Mapping Chinese AI Surveillance Across 11 Countries, the latest report by the African Digital Rights Network (ADRN) and the Institute…

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Africa: AI – ‘African Govts Are Using ‘Smart City’ Systems to Monitor Dissent and Consolidate State Control’

Africa: High Commission of Kenya in South Africa Hosts Nairobi City Thunder Ahead of Petro De Luanda Clash in BAL6

Pretoria, South Africa — Ahead of their crucial tie against 2024 champions Petro de Luanda in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) Kalahari Conference, the Nairobi City Thunder were hosted to a luncheon by the High Commission of the Republic of Kenya in Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday afternoon. Led by Elizabeth Choge, Minister II at…

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Leader of Ecuador-based criminal group Los Lobos arrested in Mexico City | Crime News

Leader of Ecuador-based criminal group Los Lobos arrested in Mexico City | Crime News

Angel Esteban Aguilar is suspected of masterminding the 2023 assassination of an Ecuadorian presidential candidate. Law enforcement authorities have announced that the leader of the Ecuadorean crime group Los Lobos was arrested at the international airport in Mexico City, where he attempted to enter the country under a false identity. The effort on Wednesday to…

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Africa: AI – ‘African Govts Are Using ‘Smart City’ Systems to Monitor Dissent and Consolidate State Control’

Africa: Rapid Rise of Smart City Surveillance Tech Across Africa to Spy On Citizens

Brighton, UK — A massive expansion of AI-enabled surveillance of public spaces across Africa is violating citizens’ freedoms and the fundamental human right to privacy, warns a new report by the Institute of Development Studies. African governments are paying billions of dollars to Chinese companies for so-called ‘smart city’ products for public space surveillance –…

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