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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,…

Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing said on Wednesday it would “add legal means” and research other ways to thwart misuse after its software was involved in the first known wrongful arrest based on the technology in the United States.Robert Williams, who is Black, spent over a day in Detroit…

On a Thursday afternoon in January, Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was in his office at an automotive supply company when he got a call from the Detroit Police Department telling him to come to the station to be arrested. He thought at first that it was a prank.An hour later, when…

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Image: Bill Pugliano (Getty)In a spectacularly rare admission of likely very common fuckery, police copped to using face recognition to make a wrongful arrest, according to the ACLU, confirming a long-suspected but nearly-impossible-to-prove practice. On Wednesday, the civil rights litigation group lodged a complaint against the Detroit Police Department for…