Detroit police challenged over face recognition flaws
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.
Amazon bans police use of face recognition technology for a year
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.
Microsoft divests from Israeli facial-recognition startup
Microsoft says it is pulling its investments from a controversial facial-recognition startup that scans faces at Israeli military checkpoints.
U.S. senators scrutinize web-scraping facial recognition startup
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.
The companies have been sending cease-and-desist letters to New York-based Clearview AI, which works with law enforcement agencies.
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.
Amazon is telling Congress that facial recognition is a “contemplated, but unreleased feature” of its home security cameras.
The data on which algorithms “learn” to judge candidates contains a whole range of different kinds of biases, prejudices, inequalities and discrimination.
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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