Facial Recognition

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

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