PimEyes says Meta glasses integration could have ‘irreversible consequences’ ~tech privacy Article 769 words 23 votes
Police in Denmark to implement facial recognition technology to combat violent crimes – recent increases in crime in Copenhagen involving gangs from neighbouring Sweden ~society politics Article 489 words 9 votes
'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech' ~tech privacy Article 989 words 59 votes
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of Canadian college students ~tech Article 831 words 72 votes
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’ ~tech privacy Article 515 words 24 votes
As employers expand artificial intelligence in hiring, few states in the USA have rules ~tech privacy Article 1428 words, published Jul 17 2023 12 votes
US federal aid is supercharging local Washington state police surveillance tech ~tech privacy Link 11 votes
The ESRB wants to start using facial recognition to check people's ages ~games Article 605 words 44 votes
Concerns about new facial recognition software implemented by TSA at US airports ~transport Article 1184 words, published Jul 11 2023 42 votes
Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras ~tech privacy security.home Article 3038 words 23 votes
Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras. Despite claims of only using local storage, Eufy has been uploading identifiable footage to the cloud. ~tech security.home privacy Article 1232 words 18 votes
Accused of cheating by an algorithm, and a Professor she had never met. An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education. ~tech amazon.rekognition Article 1915 words, published May 27 2022 17 votes
Facebook - An update on our use of face recognition ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 1117 words 15 votes
To catch teenage gamers after curfew, Chinese company deploys facial recognition ~tech Article 598 words 14 votes
King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software ~tech privacy Link 15 votes
Employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments ~tech privacy Article 5855 words 9 votes
Activists build facial recognition to ID cops who hide their badges ~tech Article 1542 words 15 votes
Gigapixel AI accidentally added Ryan Gosling’s face to this photo ~tech Article 227 words, published Aug 17 2020 5 votes
Face ID doesn’t work when you’re wearing a mask—Apple’s about to address that ~tech apple security Article 375 words 12 votes
The far-right helped create the world’s most powerful facial recognition technology ~tech Article 7387 words 11 votes
Sharing photos has the potential to reveal a lot of personal information, even if you're careful with removing metadata ~tech privacy social media Article 1726 words 9 votes
Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 846 words 9 votes
Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case ~tech Article 4078 words 10 votes
Fifty countries ranked by how they’re collecting biometric data and what they’re doing with it ~tech privacy Article 3350 words, published Dec 4 2019 11 votes
NIST study evaluates effects of race, age, sex on face recognition software - Findings included that many algorithms had false positive rates 10 to 100 times higher for non-Caucasians ~tech privacy Article 1079 words 7 votes
San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits ICE access to criminal justice data ~tech Article 475 words 9 votes
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group ~tech Article 5665 words, published Apr 14 2019 13 votes
“Affordances” - A new science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias ~books science fiction short stories Article 5858 words, published Oct 26 2019 7 votes
Chinese professor sues wildlife park after it introduces facial recognition entry system ~tech privacy Link 6 votes
Australia's idiotic war on porn returns, this time using facial recognition ~tech internet privacy Article 476 words 16 votes
Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification ~tech privacy security Article 416 words 22 votes
Soccer team Brøndby IF in Denmark is using facial recognition to stop unruly fans ~sports.football Article 1116 words 4 votes
Ring says it doesn't use facial recognition, but it has “a head of face recognition research” ~tech amazon privacy security.home Article 1200 words 16 votes
Why protests are becoming increasingly faceless ~tech Article 1977 words, published Aug 25 2019 10 votes
Swedish data protection agency has issued the country's first GDPR fine after a school was found improperly using facial recognition technology ~tech privacy Article 346 words 7 votes
Swedish police want to introduce facial recognition technology to fight crime ~tech Article 217 words 3 votes
San Francisco has banned government and police use of face surveillance technology ~tech privacy Article 304 words 25 votes
How facial recognition became a routine policing tool in America ~tech privacy Article 2109 words 6 votes
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent ~tech privacy Article 2993 words 8 votes