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The software that analyzes video streams will be used for threats in public spaces and the systems will
flag eight different categories of events: abandoned objects, abnormally heavy crowds, crowd suggest,
presence of use of weapons, a person on the ground, fire and contravening traffic direction. With a city
that expects to receive millions of visitors, officials and law enforcement believe that by allowing artificial
intelligence programs to look through video footage, suspicious and abnormal behavior will be easily
detected, therefore making the games a safer place for all attendees.

Overall, with the games less than six weeks away, it is vital to be mindful of the security risks lingering
before and during the events. Remember to play close attention to ticketing URLs and sites and stick to
the official sale and resale pages. Steer clear of purchasing tickets from social media or apps like
WhatsApp or Telegram, as the likelihood of them being scams is high. Beware of public Wi-Fi access
points as bad actors will be creating open Wi-Fi hotspots disguised as legitimate and free networks.
Lastly, familiarize yourself with the knowledge that the level of video surveillance at the games will be
record breaking, but that at this time, there is no facial recognition where you run the risk of
misidentification, though location data collected could be accessed by nefarious actors.

About the Author

Narayana Pappu is the CEO of Zendata. He started in Data Science at Fannie
Mae before the term existed. He was tasked to build a better home price index
than what was available in the market. For 15 years after that at PayPal,
Coinbase, and Doctor on Demand, he built and scaled low-latency and high-
volume internal investigation, graph, and entity resolution tools for risk
management and compliance. He also launched consumer/merchant lending
solutions in the US, UK, and Germany with over 5 billion dollars in annual
transaction volumes each. And drove projects around data monetization with
partnerships between PayPal, advertising, and payment networks; his expertise
lies in building complex data solutions that are easy to implement, use, and generate incremental value.
Our company website: Data Protection, Privacy Observability and AI Governance Solutions | Zendata

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