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IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Krishna addressed the letter to Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris…

Facial recognition tech has issues. IBM says enough's enough. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images IBM announced Monday that it's withdrawing from the general-purpose facial recognition market, saying it worries that the technology is being used to promote discrimination and racial injustice."IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including…

Josh Peter USA TODAYPublished 1:06 AM EDT Jun 6, 2020Arsonists, looters and rioters who think they evaded U.S. law enforcement this past week because they wore face masks might be in for a surprise.Not long after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended wearing cloth face coverings to slow…

It’s too soon to know what surveillance tools police departments across the country have been using to identify protesters and looters in the past week. But we know there are a lot of them, from widespread camera technology and license plate readers to drones. Not to mention the facial-recognition tool…

Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois is proposing the Orwellian (and improperly capitalized) COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act, offering states and locales $100 billion with which to become total police states. The bill would provide funds for localities to contact trace, test, and quarantine infected individuals, and while…

Face recognition is having a moment. Apple mainstreamed face unlocking for smartphones with its Face ID. Clearview AI freaked everyone out about the implications of a system that can let you upload a photo and find out anything about anyone in seconds. And several companies in the United States and…

Facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been sued by the American Civil Liberties Union over accusations of 'an extraordinary and unprecedented violation' of privacy.The ACLU filed the case in Illinois, with the backing of a consortium of Chicago-based rights groups.Illinois was the first state in the U.S. to regulate the…

Home » ACLU, Clearview AI, facial recognition, privacy, Surveillance The American Civil Liberties Union on May 28 sued controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, “to put a stop to its unlawful surreptitious capture and storage of millions of Illinoisans’ sensitive biometric identifiers”. Clearview’s face surveillance activities violate the Illinois Biometric Information…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is taking Clearview AI to court, claiming the company's facial surveillance activities violate the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and "represent an unprecedented threat to our security and safety".The legal action, brought on by lawyers at the ACLU of Illinois and the law…

Souls: Much like content, Twitter harvests them, they’re monetiseable, and closely associated with hell.Grimes, a member of the Cyber Baby–Elon Musk trio, is putting her soul to work by auctioning part of it, in the form of a legal document, to the highest bidder. She told Bloomberg that at first she…