Amazon officials reportedly defended the company’s facial recognition programs during a meeting with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Thursday, just hours before Amazon reversed its controversial deal to base its new “HQ2” headquarters in New York City.
E-commerce giant Amazon has defended its facial recognition software from claims of racial and gender bias following a study by MIT.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) is reportedly considering using facial recognition software to prove he does not appear in a decades-old racist photo amid reports the embattled Virginia Democrat is backtracking on his apology and has no immediate plans to resign.
Facebook’s popular “10 Year Challenge” could potentially be a data mining ploy under the guise of a harmless Internet meme. The data could be used to train machines to better recognize age-progression characteristics, according to Wired magazine.
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A Chicago judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against tech giant Google over its use of facial recognition technology.
Google announced this week that it won’t sell its facial recognition technology before a thorough consideration of the impact it might have on society.
The U.S. Secret Service is reportedly testing facial recognition systems around the White House.
Facebook has submitted a patent for a system which would allow the social media giant to find out information about households based on family pictures, according to a report.
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy dismissed employee concerns over the company’s “Rekognition” facial recognition contracts with the U.S. government and law enforcement during a meeting.
Amazon has pitched its facial recognition system, called “Rekognition,” to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a report. The Daily Beast obtained documents from July showing Amazon’s pitch to ICE, which included a workshop and access to Amazon’s
According to a recent report, Amazon’s facial recognition tool has mistakenly identified criminals on the FBI’s Most Wanted List as famous celebrities.
Amazon’s facial recognition tool, which the company sells to government agencies and other customers, reportedly misidentified 28 members of Congress as police suspects.
A Texas school district hopes to incorporate facial recognition technology and tracking software into its current security suite. This decision comes in response to the deadly high school shootings that happened in Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe, Texas, earlier this year.
The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has revealed that facial recognition systems are already scanning drivers’ faces in New York City and putting their photos into databases. The state is even “experimenting” with technology to identify people just by pictures of their ear.
British police are set to expand their facial recognition program, which was recorded as being 98 percent inaccurate in London.
Orlando, Florida, is currently debating whether to resume testing Amazon’s “Rekognition” facial recognition system in the city, following complaints and an expired contract with the tech company.
Amazon employees complained to CEO Jeff Bezos about the company’s facial recognition contracts with the U.S. government and police, accusing Bezos of aiding “immoral U.S. policy” and providing a list of demands.
British Police should drop facial recognition software, increasingly used by authorities to monitor the public, as evidence shows it is “almost entirely inaccurate”, campaigners have said.
South Wales Police have defended their eight-percent accurate facial recognition system, declaring, “no facial recognition system is 100% accurate.”
Event ticketing giant Ticketmaster has partnered with a facial recognition software developer in an effort to create a concert experience that doesn’t require a physical or digital ticket at all — just your face.
A surveillance company founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer has been using Facebook, YouTube and other social networks to build a massive facial recognition database — and is just one of many companies doing so.
Facebook has implemented facial recognition on its platform, and all you have to do is sign over your face.
Artificial intelligence can “accurately” determine whether you’re gay or straight, using photos of your face, according to a study.
The “Kuri” robot will use facial recognition to begin automatic recordings of its users in their homes, with or without their input.
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new video creation method utilizing A.I., allowing them to create videos showing politicians and public figures saying things that they never actually said.
A new patent filed by Facebook shows that the company may use phone, tablet and laptop cameras to spy on their users.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is being sued by a privacy group for failing to disclose information about a “secretive” facial recognition program.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is planning to unveil a facial recognition program that will track visa holders at U.S. airports while using the same technology on drones to patrol the southern border.
Chinese authorities are adding facial recognition technology to toilet paper dispensers in order to deter people from stealing entire rolls, according to Vocativ.
The facial recognition database used by the FBI is “out of control,” according to a new report by The Guardian.
As facial recognition shifts from movie magic to mundane reality, one man is taking a unique approach to the preservation of personal privacy with clothes to confuse such technology.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook claiming that the social network violates Illinois state law by holding biometric data of its users and keeping faces on file for recognition purposes.
The Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology recently completed an extensive study on America’s surprisingly extensive facial recognition software, and concluded half of American adults have already been tagged by systems accessible to law enforcement.
When the FBI announced its Next Generation Identification System in 2014, it said the database would include about 51 million photographs. A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds the system actually includes about 411 million photos, only 30 million of them “civil and criminal mugshots.”
TEL AVIV – An Israeli start-up claims to have developed a program that can identify terrorists, pedophiles, even expert poker players in just a fraction of a second using facial analysis tools.
The FBI’s Next Generation Identification System is the largest biometric database ever assembled, a billion-dollar system containing information on over 52 million people, many of them never subjected to a criminal investigation. The FBI has proposed exempting this massive database from the U.S. Privacy Act, which means citizens would not be told their information was included in NGIS or given an opportunity to correct any errors their files might contain.
A California school district is about to launch a first-of-its-kind facial recognition pilot program for K-6 aged children. Select San Diego area elementary school children will log into their iPads through a biometric system that is being pitched as a time saver because youngsters will not have to learn or remember manual online passwords anymore.
