The unseen Black faces of AI algorithms
An audit of commercial facial-analysis tools found that dark-skinned faces are misclassified at a much higher rate than are faces ...
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‘Orwellian’ facial recognition cameras in UK stores challenged by rights group
Big Brother Watch said Southern Co-operative's use of biometric scans in 35 stores across Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brighton and Hove, Chichester, Southampton, and London was “Orwellian in the extreme” and urged Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to investigate whether it breaches data protection legislation.
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Facial recognition systems: 20 million fine against the Amercian company Clearview.
"Not everything that is technically possible is legally and ethically lawful." These are the words of Guido Scorza, member of the Italian Data Protection Authority, to describe the €20 million fine imposed last February by the Italian DPA on the US company Clearview AI Inc. for its facial recognition service.
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Artificial intelligence helps Instagram to verify your age with your face
How old are you? Well, this question never leaves your side no matter how old you get. You feel happy to answer it till the age you don’t really want people to know and if you are under age then social media platforms get replaced by people. But this time Instagram has something different planned for everyone.
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analyticsinsight.net
Australian retailer pauses facial recognition trial over privacy complaint
Australia's second-biggest appliances chain said on Tuesday it was pausing a trial of facial recognition technology in stores after a consumer group referred it to the privacy regulator for possible enforcement action. Use of the technology by The Good Guys, owned by JB Hi-Fi Ltd , and two other retail chains was "unreasonably intrusive" and potentially in breach of privacy laws, the consumer group CHOICE told the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in a complaint published on Monday.
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Facial recognition is out of control in India
In May 2021, during India’s second wave of COVID-19, SQ Masood and his father-in-law were returning home on his silver-coloured motor scooter in Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Telangana. While driving through the busy lanes of Shahran, a Muslim-dominated neighborhood, they were pulled over by two police officers.
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Surveillance tech didn’t stop the Uvalde massacre
On Tuesday, a horrific but familiar story unfolded: a disturbed 18-year-old had traveled to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where he used a legally purchased assault rifle to murder 21 people: 19 children and two teachers. Before the dust had settled over the Texas border town, the conversation turned to the prevention of future shootings. Schools across Texas quickly promised increased security and new protective measures.
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gizmodo.com
Clearview AI agrees to permanent ban on selling facial recognition to private companies
Facial recognition surveillance company Clearview AI has agreed to permanently ban most private companies from using its service under a court settlement. The agreement, filed in Illinois court today, would settle a 2020 American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit that alleged the company had built its business on facial recognition data taken without user consent.
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theverge.com
Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System
For the past 15 years, police forces searching for criminals in Europe have been able to share fingerprints, DNA data, and details of vehicle owners with each other. If officials in France suspect someone they are looking for is in Spain, they can ask Spanish authorities to check fingerprints against their database. Now European lawmakers are set to include millions of photos of people’s faces in this system—and allow facial recognition to be used on an unprecedented scale.
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wired.co.uk
Oekraïne zet gezichtsherkenning in om Russen en lichamen te identificeren
Het Oekraïense ministerie van Defensie is afgelopen weekend begonnen met de inzet van gezichtsherkenning van Clearview AI, schrijft Reuters. De Amerikaanse start-up had zijn technologie aangeboden om Russische aanvallers te onthullen, desinformatie te bestrijden en lichamen te identificeren.
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Texas klaagt Facebook aan om inmiddels gestopt gezichtsherkenningssysteem
De procureur-generaal van de Amerikaanse staat Texas heeft Facebook-moederbedrijf Meta aangeklaagd, schrijft CNN. Volgens de staat heeft Facebook op illegale wijze gezichtsherkenningsdata van tientallen miljoenen Texanen verzameld.
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Tech firm offers cops facial recognition to ID homeless people
A tech firm is offering police a capability to identify and pull up information on people experiencing homeless through facial recognition technology, according to a product brochure reviewed by Motherboard. The company markets the product as being a tool to use against "problems" such as “degradation of a city's culture,” “poor hygiene (use street as a restroom),” and “unchecked predatory behavior.”
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Hoe invasief zijn gezichtstransformatie apps? Blijft er nog iets van je privacy over?
Iedereen heeft wel eens een gezichtstransformatie app zoals FaceApp, Oldify of Facetune gebruikt of gespeeld met soortgelijke features in TikTok ...
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Leaked documents link Huawei to China’s domestic spying in Xinjiang
Huawei was involved in building technology for labor and reeducation camps, as well as surveillance systems in China’s Xinjiang region, according to PowerPoint presentations obtained and translated by The Washington Post. The report shows some of the ways the tech giant’s work may have been involved in the persecution against ethnic minorities in the region.
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theverge.com
Clearview AI is closer to getting a US patent for its facial recognition technology
Clearview AI is on track to receive a US patent for its facial recognition technology, according to a report from Politico. The company was reportedly sent a “notice of allowance” by the US Patent and Trademark Office, which means that once it pays the required administration fees, its patent will be officially approved.
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Justitie onduidelijk over gebruik van omstreden gezichtsherkenningssoftware
Het nieuws dat Nederlandse politiemedewerkers gebruik zouden hebben gemaakt van omstreden software voor gezichtsherkenning zorgt al anderhalf jaar voor politieke deining. Het lukt demissionair minister Grapperhaus niet om helderheid te scheppen.
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