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Articles about Facial Recognition

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

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

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

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

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

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

AWS won't sell facial-recog tool to police for a year – other law enforcement agencies are in the clear

UpdatedCop block doesn't mention BLM, nods to legislative interest in writing rules for AI ethics

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

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

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

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

Uncle Sam stonewalls probe into its secretive airport facial-recognition technology. Now the ACLU is suing

All your face are belong to US

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

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'

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

London's Metropolitan Police flip the switch: Smile, fellow citizens... you're undergoing Live Facial Recognition

This is not a test

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'

Google, YouTube, Twitter tell face-rec upstart Clearview to stop harvesting people's content – that's their job

UpdatedTech-for-cops CEO claims First Amendment rights as a legal defense

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