Vumacam accused of driving "AI-powered apartheid"

Occurred: November 2018

Private South African CCTV company Vumacam is driving an "AI-powered apartheid", according to Vice magazine. 

Vumacam installed over 5,000 AI-powered CCTV cameras across Johannesburg combined with tools such as license plate recognition to track population movements and identify "unusual behavior".

But civil rights organisations argued Vumacam was violating privacy rights by surveilling citizens without consent. Fears were also expressed that the system's AI algorithms may have had built-in biases against people of colour, potentially leading