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Anyone who attends the 2022 World Cup in Qatar can expect to be watched by 15,000 cameras with facial-recognition technology
"As long as there is no property damage and no one injured, we will just be watching," Hamad Al-Moh…
Amanda Goh
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Meta says it's getting rid of facial recognition on Facebook - but that won't apply to the metaverse
Facebook is scrapping facial recognition but a Meta spokesperson told Recode the technology "has th…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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A Detroit woman who says she was falsely arrested while 8 months pregnant says she spent 11 hours on a concrete jail bench before being released. She says a bogus facial recognition match is to blame.
Police used facial recognition software, which often misidentifies Black people, to connect Porcha …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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New facial-recognition technology can accurately identify travelers wearing masks 96% of the time, according to a test run by the Department of Homeland Security
New facial-recognition algorithms can now identify airline passengers wearing face masks as much as…
Natasha Dailey
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20 federal agencies use facial recognition technologies that store billions of photos
The Government Accountability Office surveyed 42 federal agencies on their use and regulation of fa…
Morgan Keith
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Texas is suing Meta for violating state privacy laws with its former facial-recognition program
Meta Platforms, Facebook's parent company, is being sued by the Texas attorney general over its fac…
Gabrielle Bienasz
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The 4 retail stores you probably shop at that use facial-recognition technology
Retail stores across the country are using facial-recognition systems in their stores, leading to p…
Hannah Towey
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A social media app just for 'females' intentionally excludes trans women and some say its face-recognition AI discriminates against women of color, too
Users submit a selfie to confirm they are "female" before using the app. The CEO said she didn't mi…
Connor Perrett
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A scary proposal to use facial recognition and AI by an Indian state has experts fuming
While the idea may seem well-intended at first, most experts consider this surveillance pro…
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Trust Stamp, a facial recognition company with a $7.2 million ICE contract, had dozens of peoples' data exposed in breach
Names, addresses, and driver's license data were exposed in the breach, though it doesn't appear to…
Caroline Haskins
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The LAPD banned officers from using facial recognition technology which harvested images from social media by Clearview AI
Both the LAPD and Clearview have previously misrepresented how law enforcement officers use facial …
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Police used facial recognition tech on a Twitter video to find and charge a Lafayette Square protester with assault
Court documents offer a rare insight into how the police use facial recognition tech in tandem with…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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LAPD officers reportedly used facial recognition 30,000 times in the past decade, contradicting the department's previous denials
Despite frequent denials and refusals to respond to public records requests, the LAPD has been usin…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Portland becomes the first city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by government agencies and private entities in public spaces
Portland's ban goes further than any other city in the US and allows people to sue private companie…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Property tech companies are helping landlords spy on residents, collect their data, and even evict them. Critics are calling it an invasion of privacy that could reinforce inequality.
Researchers say "proptech" like facial recognition and AI-powered applicant-screening software is h…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that scraped billions of faces off the internet, was just hit with a data privacy complaint in Europe
Zoé Vilain, chief privacy and strategy officer at Jumbo Privacy, tried to find out what data Clearv…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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This interactive map shows you whether police departments near you are using facial recognition, drones, body cameras, and other surveillance tech
Electronic Frontier Foundation and student researchers found more than 5,300 instances of police us…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Boston just became the latest city to ban use of facial recognition technology
The move also bans Boston city officials from asking a third party to carry out facial recognition …
Aaron Holmes
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Microsoft will not sell facial recognition to American police departments until there is a national law 'grounded in human rights,' President Brad Smith says
Brad Smith says Microsoft does not sell facial recognition to US police departments, and won't unle…
Ashley Stewart
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The ACLU says Amazon's 1-year suspension on selling facial recognition to law enforcement falls short and it wants a longer ban
AI experts and civil rights activists have been campaigning for Amazon to halt the sale of Rekognit…