California Governor signs child privacy law requiring online age checks
Get ready for face scans, expanded surveillance, violated rights, and more, say critics
Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 63
Facial Recognition
Articles tagged with Facial Recognition
Amazon gave Ring video to cops without consent or warrant 11 times so far in 2022
Updated Got no time for that red tape in an emergency, says exec
Security14 Jul 2022 | 41
Clearview AI wants its facial-recognition tech in banks, schools, etc
I get knocked down but I get up again, Italy, Canada, UK, ACLU, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter... are never gonna keep me down
AI + ML25 May 2022 | 23
Clearview AI fined millions in the UK: No 'lawful reason' to collect Brits' images
Updated Notorious selfie-scraper must pay $9.43 million – less than half of predicted fine – says data regulator
AI + ML23 May 2022 | 74
Did ID.me hoodwink Americans with IRS facial-recognition tech?
Senators want the FTC to investigate "evidence of deceptive statements"
AI + ML18 May 2022 | 14
Clearview AI promises not to sell face-recognition database to most US businesses
Caveats apply, your privacy may vary
AI + ML10 May 2022 | 8
1,000-plus AI-generated LinkedIn faces uncovered
More than 70 businesses created fake profiles to close sales
AI + ML28 Mar 2022 | 41
Research finds data poisoning can't defeat facial recognition
Someone can just code an antidote and you're back to square one
AI + ML15 Mar 2022 | 9
Ukraine uses Clearview AI facial-recognition technology
Controversial search engine being used to identify dead and Russian operatives
AI + ML14 Mar 2022 | 7
IRS doesn't completely scrap facial recognition, just makes it optional
But hey, new rules on deleting your selfies
AI + ML23 Feb 2022 | 17
Sri Lanka to adopt India’s Aadhaar digital identity scheme
Biometric IDs for all, cross-border interoperability not on the table
Security09 Feb 2022 | 2
Face Off: IRS kills plan to verify taxpayers with facial recognition database
Updated Uncle Sam takes security, privacy concerns seriously, it says here
AI + ML07 Feb 2022 | 12
UK police lack framework for adopting new tech like AI and face recognition, Lords told
Governance structure is 'a bush, not a tree' – whatever that means
AI + ML19 Jan 2022 | 18
UK privacy watchdog may fine selfie-hoarding Clearview AI £17m... eventually, perhaps
Regulator's 'assertions are factually and legally incorrect' biz tells El Reg
AI + ML30 Nov 2021 | 21
Facebook ditches its creepy, controversial robot – yes, its facial-recognition AI
Updated Social network is going to sit this one out until clear rules are formulated
AI + ML02 Nov 2021 | 14
UK schools slap a hold on facial scanning of children amid fierce criticism
'Consent cannot be truly freely given' says privacy campaigner
AI + ML26 Oct 2021 | 68
Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children
Updated Facial recognition for meal payment system works for kids, supplier says
AI + ML18 Oct 2021 | 126
Euro Parliament backs ban on cops using blanket facial-recognition surveillance
Majority of MEPs want end to police face-ID'ing anyone and everyone in public, and more
AI + ML07 Oct 2021 | 19
UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns
How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?
AI + ML21 Sep 2021 | 12
It's bizarre we're at a point where reports are written on how human rights trump AI rights
But that's what UN group has done
AI + ML16 Sep 2021 | 13
If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this
Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start
AI + ML16 Sep 2021 | 41
Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance
Philip K Dick is rolling in his grave
AI + ML07 Sep 2021 | 21
Don't believe the hype that AI-generated 'master faces' can break into face recognition systems any time soon
Analysis The machine learning model was trained and tested on limited data
AI + ML10 Aug 2021 | 23
Peers question experts over UK police use of AI, facial recognition tech
Academics, senior officers sat at uncomfortable table and asked 'what's going on 'ere, then?'
AI + ML21 Jul 2021 | 12
Teen turned away from roller rink after AI wrongly identifies her as banned troublemaker
Software claimed it was 97% sure
AI + ML16 Jul 2021 | 129
Regulating facial recognition technology? It's the 'Wild West out there,' says US law boffin
House Committee on the Judiciary told until there is a proper regime, there will be 'misuse, and mistrust' of the tech
Security15 Jul 2021 | 7
Facial-recognition technology gets a smack in the chops from civil rights campaigners
Updated US retailers accused of privacy invasion
Security14 Jul 2021 | 50
US Homeland Security sued for 'stonewalling' over use of Clearview facial recognition
Potential surveillance nightmare could be unfolding in secret, civil-rights warriors fear
AI + ML14 Apr 2021 | 13
Pair accused of turning photos into vids to crack tax dept facial recognition system in China
Then issuing tens of millions in fake invoices
Security31 Mar 2021 | 29
Intel wheels out new face authentication product that works a lot like Apple's FaceID
Chipzilla joins facial-recog race
Security07 Jan 2021 | 9
After demonstrating a facial recognition system that works on cows, moo-chine learning pioneer seeks growth funding
A grand uddertaking
AI + ML27 Nov 2020 | 29
YouTube is going to splash adverts all over your videos, and won't pay creators unless there's a big enough audience
Also bans devs from scraping the site for facial recognition fodder
Personal Tech20 Nov 2020 | 66
Los Angeles police ban facial recognition software and launch review after officers accused of unauthorized use
Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do when they run an algorithm for you?
Science19 Nov 2020 | 9
Europe clamps down on cybersurveillance exports, pushes human rights focus
No selling to evil folks albeit with a few big loopholes for some
Security11 Nov 2020 | 7
Black Lives Matter protester ID'd from Twitter photo via facial-recog system secretly used by US law enforcement
NCRFRILS had never been disclosed publicly – until court case
AI + ML04 Nov 2020 | 28
IBM calls for US export bans on facial recognition tech including cameras and big iron
‘Certain foreign governments’ can’t be allowed to conduct mass surveillance
AI + ML14 Sep 2020 | 17
ICE to see you: Homeland Security's immigration cops tap up Clearview AI to probe child exploitation, cyber-crime
One-year deal worth quarter of a million dollars
AI + ML15 Aug 2020 | 12
Police face-recog tech use in Welsh capital of Cardiff was unlawful – Court of Appeal
Judges went out of their way not to set a nationwide precedent, though
Security11 Aug 2020 | 33
Face masks hamper the spread of coronavirus. Know what else they hamper? Facial-recognition systems (except China's)
Uncle Sam tests AI models with pics of immigrants, travelers. Wait, what?
AI + ML28 Jul 2020 | 52
Sick of AI engines scraping your pics for facial recognition? Here's a way to Fawkes them right up
Cloaking code contaminates snapshots so they're useless for face matching
AI + ML22 Jul 2020 | 66
Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview
Investigation follows Canada's decision to give image-scraping biz the boot
AI + ML09 Jul 2020 | 16
NEC insists its face-recog training dataset isn't biased, but refuses to share details of Neoface system with UK court
Magical Black Box of Suspects to Arrest is updated annually, says firm
Security30 Jun 2020 | 12
Brit police's use of facial-recognition tech is lawful, no need to question us, cops' lawyer tells Court of Appeal
Plus: Home Office urges judges to leave lax legal framework as is
Security26 Jun 2020 | 58
Detroit cops cuffed, threw a dad misidentified by facial recognition in jail. Now the ACLU's demanding action
Another machine-learning model that can't tell people of color apart? Shocker
AI + ML24 Jun 2020 | 35
Laws on police facial recognition aren't tough enough, UK data watchdog barrister tells Court of Appeal
Top judge replies: Don't understand what you're on about
Security24 Jun 2020 | 45
Hey NYPD, when you're done tear-gassing and running over protesters, can you tell us about your spy gear?
City council demands snoop gear kit reports, mayor OK with that
Security19 Jun 2020 | 81
After IBM axed its face-recog tech, the rest of the dominoes fell like a house of cards: Amazon and now Microsoft. Checkmate
At least its bandwagon-detection AI still works
AI + ML12 Jun 2020 | 43
AWS won't sell facial-recog tool to police for a year – other law enforcement agencies are in the clear
Updated Cop block doesn't mention BLM, nods to legislative interest in writing rules for AI ethics
AI + ML11 Jun 2020 | 14
IBM quits facial recognition because Black Lives Matter
CEO Arvind Krishna tells Congress it’s time to debate law enforcement reform, including access to AI
AI + ML09 Jun 2020 | 45
Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system
Startup says it's covered by the First Ammendment, ta very much
AI + ML28 May 2020 | 17
You can't have it both ways: Anti-coronavirus masks may thwart our creepy face-recog cameras, London cops admit
Metropolitan Police's China-style surveillance runs up against reality
Security15 May 2020 | 137
Lawyers hail 'superb result' in Facebook biometric privacy battle: They'll get 25% of $550m, Illinois gets the rest
Sure, they should have got more, but let’s not get greedy here
Personal Tech13 May 2020 | 17
Uncle Sam stonewalls probe into its secretive airport facial-recognition technology. Now the ACLU is suing
All your face are belong to US
Science12 Mar 2020 | 8
If you're wondering how Brit cops' live suspect-hunting facial-recog is going, it's cruising at 88% false positives
AI software led to one person on Met's watch list being positively identified out of 8,600 people
AI + ML05 Mar 2020 | 92
Hacker swipes customer list from controversial face-recog-for-Feds Clearview. Its reaction? 'A part of life'
AI biz tells clients miscreant 'gained unauthorized access', tells us 'servers were never accessed, flaw patched'
AI + ML26 Feb 2020 | 19
London's top cop dismisses 'highly inaccurate or ill informed' facial-recognition critics, possibly ironically
Appears she ignored report that concluded the tech is highly inaccurate
AI + ML25 Feb 2020 | 141
London's Metropolitan Police flip the switch: Smile, fellow citizens... you're undergoing Live Facial Recognition
This is not a test
Science20 Feb 2020 | 77
Will Police Scotland use real-time discrimination-happy face-recog tech? Senior cop tells us: We won't... for now
After panel urges halt to live matching, top brass says it would only be 'used in an intelligence-led, targeted way'
AI + ML13 Feb 2020 | 24
Google, YouTube, Twitter tell face-rec upstart Clearview to stop harvesting people's content – that's their job
Updated Tech-for-cops CEO claims First Amendment rights as a legal defense
AI + ML05 Feb 2020 | 13
Facebook coughs up $550m to make AI photo tagging lawsuit vanish. How ever will it survive on that $17.9bn left over?
That tech backlash in full: More and more are using the antisocial network
AI + ML30 Jan 2020 | 14
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