Clearview

A hot potato: Despite getting under the skin of just about every regulator imaginable, Clearview AI continues to collect and scape publicly available images of individuals worldwide. Regulators in several countries have been debating how authorities can use this particular biometric technology. In the meantime, it seems Clearview has become…

On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it was ending its Face Recognition system on the app and rolling back the technology in the coming weeks. In a press release, Jerome Pesenti, VP of artificial intelligence at Meta (the new name for Facebook’s parent company), said that the shutting down of the…

Facebook is shutting down its automatic face recognition feature for tagging people in photos and videos.  It is reported that the social media platform will delete more than one billion faces in its database. As a result, users will no longer be able to make use of the feature –…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has demanded that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, preserve its facial recognition system data due to an ongoing Texas investigation into the company's biometric data collection practices. Paxton is pictured speaking to the media outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on November 1,…

Today Facebook has shocked the world by announcing that it's shutting down its automatic face tagging system, powered by facial recognition. This is the system that figures out who is in photos based on the faces it sees. People who have previously opted in to using this will no longer…

Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev (Getty Images) On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement. According to a new blog post from the platform’s shiny new parent company, Meta, the big blue app will be shuttering its…

Facebook plans to shut down its face recognition system in the "coming weeks," Meta announced Tuesday, citing the "many concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society." Driving the news: The changes will affect more than a third of daily users, according to Jerome Pesenti, vice president of…

Meta is further backing away from facial recognition. The company has announced it's shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook in the "coming weeks." You'll no longer be automatically recognized in photos if you opted in to the feature, and the Facebook team will delete over a billion facial…

Ahmedabad, India, October 21, 2021 --(PR.com)-- During the product launch, Mr Hiren Bhandari, Founder & Technical Director, Mantra Softech, said, "The design of this device was conceived after researching industry trends, particularly in relation to COVID-19. After the outbreak of coronavirus, organizations started preferring face recognition as a contactless means of…

Welcome to I Was There When, a new oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by the people who witnessed them. In this first episode, we meet Joseph Atick— who helped create the…