A Detroit-area skating rink is under fire for barring entry to a Black teenager after its facial recognition cameras misidentified her as a woman who was banned from the property. It has further ignited debate on the ethics of using facial recognition technology in the United States. 14-year old Lamya Robinson was barred from entering […]
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Last week The Verge reported on an incident involving a man from Detroit who was wrongly arrested for shoplifting back in 2019. The article said that the Detroit police department had used facial recognition technology to help catch the "offender. thephoblographer.com »
2021-05-01 01:00
Face recognition developer Paravision AI has been ordered to delete masses of user data it held and used illegally to create face recognition applications from the images stored on its former cloud storage service Ever. dpreview.com »
2021-01-20 21:47
A team of researchers at the University of Chicago have developed an algorithm that makes tiny, imperceptible edits to your images in order to mask you from facial recognition technology. Their invention is called Fawkes, and anybody can use it on their own images for free. petapixel.com »
2020-08-11 01:32
Last year, an AI technology called FindFace garnered a lot of attention after it was found to trace the faces of pedestrians back to their online social accounts. Now, one year on, Baidu’s own facial recognition technology has miraculously been able to reunite a Chinese family after 27 years apart. digitalrev.com »
2017-04-17 03:00
In order to show how easy it is for complete strangers to gather information about you, Egor Tsvetkov spent six weeks taking around 100 pictures of subway commuters in St Petersburg before using a facial recognition app called FindFace to track down their internet profiles. boredpanda.com »
2016-12-12 12:59