Facial Recognition

The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system – and we're going to court to prove it, says ACLU

Civil-rights warriors sue FBI, DEA, DoJ over fears of secretive mass-spying network

AI + ML31 Oct 2019 | 37

Come on, you can't be serious: Now Australia mulls face-recog tech for p0rno site age checks

A whole new spin on facial recognition

AI + ML29 Oct 2019 | 104

Rekognition still racist, politicians desperate over deepfakes, and a good reason to go to (some) music festivals

Roundup Let's bring you up to speed on the latest misuses of machine-learning tech

AI + ML28 Oct 2019 | 16

Guess who's dreaming of facial-recog body cams now? US border cops: AI tech sought to scrutinize travelers

Always-on, always-recording, always-analyzing gear mulled

AI + ML18 Oct 2019 | 30

How much is your face worth? Google thinks a $5 Starbucks gift card should be good enough

Updated Pixel 4 facial recognition tests go beyond the pale

Science03 Oct 2019 | 20

Computer says no: An expression-analysing AI has been picking out job candidates for Unilever

One day you may find yourself having to impress software

AI + ML30 Sep 2019 | 60

Amazon, maker of racist and sexist facial recog, to suggest regulations for facial recog systems

Now we're really scared

AI + ML27 Sep 2019 | 16

Vimeo's Clippy-for-video-bumpf app 'breaks biometric privacy law by slurping thousands of faces without consent'

AI marketing tool sparks lawsuit

AI + ML24 Sep 2019 | 15

Your ugly mug may be scanned yet again – but at least you'll be able to board faster at Gatwick

Brit airport to extend facial recog after easyJet trial

Security18 Sep 2019 | 55

Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit

Mayor apologizes, joins privacy watchdogs in probing use of technology in bustling corner of UK capital

AI + ML06 Sep 2019 | 48

Welsh police use of facial recog tech – it's so 'lawful', rules High Court

Claimant to appeal judgment and campaign for outright ban

Science04 Sep 2019 | 41

And you thought the cops were bad... Civil rights group warns of facial recog 'epidemic' across UK private sites

Shopping centres, museums and conference centres all found to be using tech

Security16 Aug 2019 | 46

'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha

ICO wants to know if AI surveillance systems in central London are legal

AI + ML16 Aug 2019 | 43

Ohio state's top legal eagle just made it harder for the FBI, ICE, cops to snoop around its DMV DB for people's faces

Reminder: They're not allowed to do that without permission

Science15 Aug 2019 | 12

J'accuse! Amazon's Rekognition reckons 1 in 5 Californian lawmakers are crims in ACLU test

You gotta use 99% confidence setting before arresting anyone

Science14 Aug 2019 | 61

Plot twist: Google's not spying on King's Cross with facial recognition tech, but its landlord is

Updated More unregulated creepycams blight London

Security12 Aug 2019 | 60

Take two cornerstones of British life, booze and queues, then squirt them with face scans: AI Bar

Pics and video System tracks who's next, but it's no stand-in for a good bartender's judgment

AI + ML02 Aug 2019 | 76

It's a facial-recognition bonanza: Oakland bans it, activists track it, and pics taken from dating-site OkCupid feed it

Roundup Watching us, watching you

AI + ML21 Jul 2019 | 13

Arrested development: Cops dump Amazon's facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly

15 months of wrangling and Orlando couldn't even begin testing AI cloud tech for population surveillance

AI + ML19 Jul 2019 | 18

Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee

Updated Latest call to halt creepy tech likely to fall on deaf ears

Security18 Jul 2019 | 26

UK Home Secretary doubles down on cops' deeply flawed facial recognition trials

1984 is not an instruction manual, and yet here we are

Security12 Jul 2019 | 47

'It’s not a surveillance program'... US govt isn't going all Beijing on us with border face-recog, official tells Congress

Lawmakers told: 'We don’t run the scans against any other databases'

AI + ML11 Jul 2019 | 34

Chinese government has got it 'spot on' when it comes to face-recog tech says, er, London's Met cops' top rep

Thinks British public will be fine getting stopped and searched on faulty software's say so

Science08 Jul 2019 | 80

FBI and immigration officials trawling US driving licence databases for suspects

Maybe time to put 4th amendment-bothering facial recog on ICE?

Legal08 Jul 2019 | 23

Metropolitan Police's facial recognition tech not only crap, but also of dubious legality – report

Just 8 out of 42 matches correct, say uni researchers

Legal04 Jul 2019 | 128

How do we stop facial recognition from becoming the next Facebook: ubiquitous and useful yet dangerous, impervious and misunderstood?

We talk to one CEO about why bans aren't the answer but federal regulation is

Security03 Jul 2019 | 36

US cop body cam maker says it won't ship face-recog tech in its kit? Due to ethics? Did we slip into a parallel universe?

Development paused after AI experts sounded alarm. Amazon et al take note, eh?

AI + ML28 Jun 2019 | 15

You're responsible for getting permission from subjects if you want to use Windows Photos' facial recog feature

Microsoft gets nervous, dumps burden of consent on users

AI + ML10 Jun 2019 | 40

Auditors slam FBI for shoddy testing of facial-recog tech. But no big deal. It only has 641m images on its systems

No one has complained so far, fed honcho protests

AI + ML05 Jun 2019 | 17

Tesla's autonomous lane changing software is worse at driving than humans, and more

Roundup Also, one man launched a legal battle against the police for using facial recognition cameras in the UK

AI + ML28 May 2019 | 124

We listened to more than 3 hours of US Congress testimony on facial recognition so you didn't have to go through it

Analysis Long story short: Models are ineffective, racist, dumb...

AI + ML22 May 2019 | 50

Let's check in with our friends in England and, oh good, bloke fined after hiding face from police mug-recog cam

Video Well, it is the nation that brought us Nineteen Eighty-Four

AI + ML16 May 2019 | 166

San Francisco votes no to facial-recognition tech for cops, govt – while its denizens create it

Alternative headline: Face-rec tech rekt – wham ban, thank you, San Fran

AI + ML14 May 2019 | 21

Photo 'memories' storage biz Ever uses family snaps to train facial recognition AI

You mean you didn't read the 2,566-word privacy policy?

AI + ML10 May 2019 | 20

UK is 'not a surveillance state' insists minister defending police face recog tech

Creepycams are fine. Public just needs to trust us... I mean them, I mean private firms

Science03 May 2019 | 103

Baffling tale of Apple shops' 'non-facial' 'facial recognition', a stolen ID, and a $1bn lawsuit after a wrongful arrest

Teen loses driving permit, gets wrongly linked to spate of thefts

AI + ML23 Apr 2019 | 85

FYI: Get ready for face scans on leaving the US because 1.2% of visitors overstayed their visas

Water cooler Uncle Sam wants to run fliers' fizogs through photo databases by 2023

Science23 Apr 2019 | 85

Microsoft president: We said no to Cali cops' face-recog tech – and we won't craft killer robots

Why? Because biased AI is bad news for minorities

AI + ML17 Apr 2019 | 25

While Google agonizes over military AI, IBM is happy to pick up the slack, even for the Chinese military

Big Blue insists it's only for good ol' fashioned research

AI + ML12 Apr 2019 | 15

SEC says no to Amazon bid to stop shareholders voting on use of facial recognition system

Proposal seeking to halt sale of Rekognition to US agencies to be heard at annual meeting

Science08 Apr 2019 | 22

Dodgy US government facial data grab, self-nannying cars, and a chance for non-techies to learn about AI

Roundup The week's news in AI and machine learning

AI + ML25 Mar 2019 | 11

New phone who dis? Facial recognition models more farcical despite progress

GTC AI doesn't always work as well as you'd expect in real life

AI + ML21 Mar 2019 | 17

UK Ministry of Justice: Surprise! We tested out biometric tech in prisons and 'visitors' with drugs up their bums ran away

Oh, we'll let regulators know about it next time, promise

Security06 Mar 2019 | 69

The infamous AI gaydar study was repeated – and, no, code can't tell if you're straight or not just from your face

What are these pesky neural networks really looking at?

AI + ML05 Mar 2019 | 43

Cops told live facial recog needs oversight, rigorous trial design, protections against bias

How about only using face-scan tech if it, er, actually works, is the only option, eh?

Science27 Feb 2019 | 25

Oh dear! Amazon's facial recognition is racist and sexist – and there's a JLaw deep fake that will make you want to tear out your eyes

Roundup The week's other news in AI

AI + ML03 Feb 2019 | 43

Romford Station, smile! You're in London cops' final facial recog 'trial'

Cams trained on entrance today and tomorrow – so tough luck if that's on your commute route

AI + ML31 Jan 2019 | 58

Forget Finding Nemo: This AI can identify a single zebrafish out of a 100-strong shoal

Sounds fishy, yet it works for fruit flies, too. So take that, fish/fly-spotting humans

AI + ML15 Jan 2019 | 16

Americans are just fine with facial recognition technology – as long as they get shorter queues

The younger generation leads the fight against face matching

AI + ML11 Jan 2019 | 43

Y'know how you might look at someone and can't help but wonder if they have a genetic disorder? We've taught AI to do the same

More suggestive assistant than robo-doc, boffins say

AI + ML09 Jan 2019 | 37

Full frontal vulnerability: Photos can still trick, unlock Android mobes via facial recognition

Dutch consumer club names 42 easy-to-fool cameras

Personal Tech04 Jan 2019 | 51

Who's watching you from an unmarked van while you shop in London? Cops with facial recog tech

Great. Big Brother Watch claims tech had 100% fail rate since May

Security17 Dec 2018 | 112

Taylor's gonna spy, spy, spy, spy, spy... fans can't shake cam off, shake cam off

Swifties' faces scanned against DB of 'known stalkers' at US gig – reports

Security13 Dec 2018 | 101

ICO to probe facial recog amid concerns UK cops can't shake their love for unregulated creepy tech

Plus: Boffins find kit struggles in low light, crowds

Science03 Dec 2018 | 14

Scot.gov wins pals with pledge not to keep hold of innocents' mugshots and biometric data

So why can't UK.gov do the same? – campaigners

Security22 Aug 2018 | 17

Need a facial recognition auto-doxxx tool? Social Mapper has you covered

Use this to match profiles to names of people at an organization. Nothing could possibly go wrong here

AI + ML10 Aug 2018 | 28