

Nation Jun 24

The complaint by Robert Williams is a rare challenge from someone who not only experienced an erroneous face recognition hit, but was able to discover that it was responsible for his subsequent troubles.
By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press
Nation Jun 11

Amazon banned police use of its face-recognition technology for a year, making it the latest tech giant to step back from law-enforcement use of systems that have faced criticism for incorrectly identifying people with darker skin.
By Joseph Pisani, Matt O'Brien, Associated Press
World Mar 27

Microsoft says it is pulling its investments from a controversial facial-recognition startup that scans faces at Israeli military checkpoints.
By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press
Economy Mar 03

Clearview AI has drawn attention following investigative reports about its practice of harvesting billions of photos from social media and other services to identify people.
By Associated Press
Feb 05

By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press
The companies have been sending cease-and-desist letters to New York-based Clearview AI, which works with law enforcement agencies.
Jan 24

By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press
The Metropolitan Police Service said Friday it will use the cameras to automatically scan faces of people passing through small, targeted areas where intelligence suggests serious offenders will be found.
Nov 19

By Associated Press
Amazon is telling Congress that facial recognition is a “contemplated, but unreleased feature” of its home security cameras.
Oct 07

By Ivan Manokha, The Conversation
The data on which algorithms “learn” to judge candidates contains a whole range of different kinds of biases, prejudices, inequalities and discrimination.
Sep 30

By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn
Technology is transforming China, helping improve life in some ways, but also collecting big data. The government is beginning to convert that data and surveillance footage into social credit scores, which critics say can be used to penalize those who…
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