Facial Recognition

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