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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…

Technology | Analysis 11 August 2020 By Chris Stokel-Walker A police face recognition camera in Cardiff, WalesMatthew Horwood/Getty ImagesThe UK Court of Appeal has unanimously reached a decision against a face-recognition system used by South Wales Police. The judgment, which called the use of automated face recognition (AFR) “unlawful”, could…

Researchers have demonstrated that they can fool a modern face recognition system into seeing someone who isn’t there. A team from the cybersecurity firm McAfee set up the attack against a facial recognition system similar to those currently used at airports for passport verification. By using machine learning, they created…

The big picture: Face recognition is quickly becoming one of the biggest threats to our privacy, with many startups looking to create commercial services around this technology while exploiting the immense number of photos we've uploaded online. There is a solution to this problem, but its effectiveness will ultimately depend…

World28 Jul, 2020 02:39 AM4 minutes to readA study found that even the best commercial facial recognition systems have error rates as high as 50 per cent when trying to identify masked faces. Photo / NIST, APHaving a tough time recognising your neighbours behind their pandemic masks? Computers are finding…

Britain’s data watchdog and its Australian counterpart said on Thursday that they launched a joint investigation into the personal information handling practices of facial recognition technology company Clearview AI.The investigation will be conducted by UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), focussing on…

Thanks to the growing global anti-racism movement, the world is opening its eyes to how police use of facial recognition fits into the bigger picture of harm against Black and Indigenous people -- and how badly we need laws that govern, or ban, its use. Facial recognition technology, or FRT,…