Mar 27 Microsoft divests from Israeli facial-recognition startup By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Microsoft says it is pulling its investments from a controversial facial-recognition startup that scans faces at Israeli military checkpoints. Continue reading
Mar 03 U.S. senators scrutinize web-scraping facial recognition startup By Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Feb 05 YouTube, Venmo demand AI firm stop taking facial data from sites 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. Continue reading
Jan 24 London police to use facial recognition cameras, stoking privacy fears 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. Continue reading
Nov 19 Amazon tells senator it’s considered face-scanning doorbells By Associated Press Amazon is telling Congress that facial recognition is a “contemplated, but unreleased feature” of its home security cameras. Continue reading
Oct 07 How using facial analysis in job interviews could reinforce inequality 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. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch 10:34 How China’s high-tech ‘eyes’ monitor behavior and dissent 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… Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch 3:19 Biometric data becomes new weapon in Hong Kong protests By PBS NewsHour As protests continued on the streets of Hong Kong on Saturday, authorities were using facial recognition and biometric data to identify protesters — who were in turn using technology to track police officers. New York Times reporter Paul Mozur joins… Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch 8:28 British privacy groups say facial recognition ripe for abuse By Malcolm Brabant British civil rights groups are calling on the government to suspend the use of facial recognition technology now being tested by police on the general public, claiming the technology is in a legal vacuum and could impact privacy. But some… Continue watching
Jul 24 Is FaceApp a security risk? 3 privacy concerns you should take seriously By Nsikan Akpan We asked five experts with backgrounds in data security and tech law if FaceApp worries them. Their resounding answer was yes. Continue reading