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
Mysterious face-recog AI startup Clearview sued, capabilities questioned after scraping billions of web pics Roundup Also, the most detailed brain map yet took 12 years, $40m to build AI + ML26 Jan 2020 | 22
Europe mulls five year ban on facial recognition in public... with loopholes for security and research Euro Commission also wants to loosen purse strings for AI investment while tightening reins AI + ML17 Jan 2020 | 42
Facial-recognition algos vary wildly, US Congress told, as politicians try to come up with new laws on advanced tech Vid Most-accurate algorithms showed 'little to no bias', so nothing to fear, eh? AI + ML16 Jan 2020 | 10
Trump Administration fast-tracks compulsory border facial recognition scans for all US citizens Homeland Security also clamping down on H1-B visas Science03 Dec 2019 | 58
In your face! US Senate mulls bipartisan federal law on police facial recognition use Bill would require cops to get a court order for any surveillance Legal14 Nov 2019 | 12
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