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On October 26, a new regulations was submitted to the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Hangzhou Municipal People’s Congress for deliberation. The revised draft clearly stipulates that it is forbidden to force owners to enter a residential community through biometric information such as fingerprints and face…

iPhone 12 sales have just started, and the phones are already selling out. But the first rumor about future iPhones is already here. A reliable leaker says that Apple plans to bring back one of the iPhone’s most popular features: the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. The iPhone 13 might be…

The Pixel 5 isn’t even official, but Google mistakenly announced preorders for Japan, complete with pricing details, a few days before its press event. The Google Japan leak confirms the recent Pixel 5 design leaks, and the rumors that said the Pixel 5 would be more affordable than the Pixel…

Img source: mobygeek.com Many casinos around the world have begun to use Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition software to help identify problem gamblers and instances of criminal behavior, as according to the site www.casinobest.in. Visitors to a casino have their faces scanned as soon as they enter the premises, and their image is then automatically…

Man, 66, suffers life-threatening injuries following collision on County Road 91 in Clearview Township NEWS RELEASE ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE ************************* Officers from the Huronia West OPP detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with the Clearview Fire Department and Simcoe County Paramedics attended to a traffic collision on Sept. 4,…

In brief A tech savvy Reddit dweller has trained a machine-learning model to mimic David Attenborough’s world-famous plummy voice. The award-winning 94-year-old British naturalist is well-known for narrating nature documentaries. Now the UK national treasure's voice has been taken on a joyride to read Reddit comments, rather than describe the…

Photo: Alex Wong, Getty Images In a pairing that has all the makings of a privacy and/or human rights nightmare waiting to happen, the dystopian facial recognition software maker Clearview AI secured an ongoing contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week. ICE — the agency whose greatest hits…

A bizarre class action lawsuit against Instagram alleges that the photo sharing app illegally uses face recognition to tag people in photos. It says that this breaches Illinois law, and leaves Instagram liable to fines of up to $5,000 per violation, for as many as 100 million users. There’s just…

In the first of a four-part series on FaceID, host Jennifer Strong explores the false arrest of Robert Williams by police in Detroit. The odd thing about Willliams’s ordeal wasn’t that police used face recognition to ID him—it’s that the cops told him about it. There’s no law saying they…

Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world. Your picture is probably in there (our host Jennifer Strong’s was). In part two of this four-part series on facial recognition, we meet the CEO of the controversial company who tells us our future…