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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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Jul 27

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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…

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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.

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Jul 10

WATCH: Facial recognition technology, privacy under scrutiny at House committee hearing

By Gretchen Frazee

The hearing comes during a week when Immigration and Customs Enforcement has come under scrutiny for requesting states provide it with scans of driver's license photos.

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