Halt public use of facial recognition tech, says UK’s equality watchdog
Equalities and Human Rights Commission says mass AFR surveillance is discriminatory and stifles free expression. The Equalities and Human Rights […]
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Washington state approves stronger facial recognition regulations
Washington officials have approved a set of stronger facial recognition regulations for the state. Under the bill, facial recognition technologies […]
Surveillance Firm Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media
One former employee said the secret company called Pink Unicorn Labs was doing the same thing as Cambridge Analytica, “but […]
Swedish Data Inspectorate investigates Clearview AI
Swedish supervisory authority – Datainspektionen – is conducting an investigation on possible use of facial recognition technology provided by US […]
What Facebook’s $550M settlement teaches us about the future of facial recognition
In January, plaintiffs and Facebook reached the largest privacy settlement in U.S. history. Facebook agreed to settle for $550 million […]
Clearview AI is Developing Security Cameras
Clearview AI, the secretive company that’s built a database of billions of photos scraped without permission from social media and […]
Scotland Yard makes first arrest using live facial recognition technology
A woman arrested in Westminster, London yesterday has become the first to be apprehended by Metropolitan Police using its facial […]
London Police Just Turned On Facial Recognition In One Of The World’s Busiest Shopping Districts
Just across from the Microsoft store on London’s Regent Street, and just outside the entrance to the Oxford Circus tube […]
EU Police Push for Pan-European Facial Recognition Network
The proposal to link the EU’s facial recognition databases would likely connect them to the U.S. as well, in a […]
Moscow deploys facial recognition technology for coronavirus quarantine
Moscow is using facial recognition technology to ensure people ordered to remain at home or at their hotels under coronavirus […]
Automated facial recognition breaches GDPR, says EU digital chief
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president for digital affairs, has said that automated facial recognition breaches GDPR as […]
EU backs away from call for blanket ban on facial recognition tech
New draft of AI paper drops suggestion of five-year moratorium on surveillance tech. In a draft of a paper on […]