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Recent efforts by right wing groups to target Wikipedia are beginning to converge as Elon Musk enters the fray.
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Leaked Documents Show Plot to Dox Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Using Hacking and Facial Recognition

By Joe Wilkins

The NYPD isn't mcuh closer to tracking down the identity of the man who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Even With Cameras Everywhere and Facial Recognition, NYPD Helpless to Catch CEO Killer

By Victor Tangermann

Supermarkets in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas are selling bullets by way of AI-powered, facial recognition-embedded vending machines.
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In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines Are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest him for a robbery in Texas.
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Man Says Sunglass Hut Used Facial Recognition to Falsely Jail Him, Where He Got Sexually Assaulted

By Sharon Adarlo

Rite Aid used faulty facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting but instead ended up antagonizing and traumatizing shoppers.
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Rite Aid’s Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

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Here’s What It’s Like To Be Falsely Arrested via Facial Recognition

By Sharon Adarlo

Rage Against the Machine is living up to its name by signing a pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition technology. 
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Rage Against the Machine Refuses to Play Venues With Facial Recognition

By Noor Al-Sibai

Surveillance technology, including facial recognition software, reportedly has an outsized presence in public housing projects.
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Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.
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Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Italian clothing line, Cap_able, just released a collection of knitwear that tricks facial recognition software into registering you as an animal.
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Chaotic Italian Fashion Line Baffles Facial Recognition Software

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Iranian state is likely using facial recognition as a tool of tracking down and penalizing the women for rejecting the state's hijab law.
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Iran Apparently Using Facial Recognition to Catch Women Breaking Hijab Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

28-year-old Georgia man Randal Reid was thrown in jail for nearly a week based on a facial recognition match that should've been obvious was false.
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Man Accuses Cops of Throwing Him in Jail Based on False Facial Recognition Match

By Frank Landymore

Pubs, clubs, and hotels in New South Wales, Australia, are testing a facial recognition system used to deter self-reported "problem gamblers."
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Casinos to Use Facial Recognition to Keep “Problem Gamblers” Away

By Frank Landymore

Protecting children online has never been easy. With the advent of facial recognition search engine PimEyes, the safety of children is even more at risk.
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Experts Horrified by Facial Recognition Site That Digs Up “Potentially Explicit” Photos of Children

By Frank Landymore

A smart pet door from Petvation that uses facial recognition software and machine learning to let your pets in and out is headed to production.
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Smart Pet Door Uses Facial Recognition to Keep Strange Animals Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Reporters and readers reacted to the news that Ukraine is using facial recognition AI software to identify dead soldiers Russia left behind.
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Internet Aghast at AI Facial Recognition Used to Identify Dead Russian Soldiers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Soldiers in Ukraine are using facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify dead Russian soldiers and send it to families in Russia.
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Ukraine Reportedly Using Facial Recognition to Send Photos of Dead Russian Soldiers to Their Mothers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook has announced it will shut down its face-recognition system, deleting the unique faceprints of over one billion users.
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Facebook Is Shutting Down Its Facial Recognition System

By Victor Tangermann

Employees at Canon's office in China have to smile into a facial recognition camera before they're allowed into the building.
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Chinese Canon Employees Must Smile at the Facial Recognition Camera Before Returning to Work

By Dan Robitzski

In a test, the Department of Homeland Security found that new facial recognition can identify 96 percent of people despite their face masks.
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Government Facial Recognition Can Identify 96 Percent of Masked People

By Dan Robitzski

A man is suing NJ police after he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned because of flawed, since-banned facial recognition AI.
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Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail

By Dan Robitzski

Senior employees at the security camera company Verkada used the company's own facial recognition to sexually harass their coworkers.
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Men at Facial Recognition Startup Used Its Own Tech to Sexually Harass Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of activists are training new facial recognition algorithms to ID cops who hide their names while cracking down on protests.
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Activists Build Facial Recognition to ID Cops Who Hide Their Badges

By Dan Robitzski

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with the extremely controversial facial recognition tech company Clearview AI.
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ICE Signs Contract With Controversial Facial Recognition Company

By Victor Tangermann

A London courtroom declared the South Wales Police's notorious use of mass facial recognition surveillance is unlawful due to a lack of safeguards.
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UK Court Slams Automatic Facial Recognition Tech as “Unlawful”

By Dan Robitzski

The Department of Homeland Safety has been circulating a memo about how masls could block facial recognition since Black Lives Matter protests began.
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Government Leak: Cops Terrified Masks Will Block Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

New proposed legislation would keep facial recognition technology out of the hands of all levels of law enforcement in the U.S.
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Senators Propose a National Ban on Police Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

The first documented case of police facial recognition AI making its first wrongful arrest happened when a man was wrongfully identified as a shoplifter.
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Cops Arrested an Innocent Man Because Facial Recognition Told Them To

By Dan Robitzski

In the parts of China where medical face masks are mandatory, some find that the facial recognition systems they use to unlock their phones don't work.
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Medical Face Masks Thwart China’s Omniscient Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

A children's hospital being constructed in Dublin might implement facial recognition security cameras. The reasoning? To prevent babies from being stolen.
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Hospital: We Need Facial Recognition to Catch Baby Snatchers

By Dan Robitzski

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) compared facial recognition tech to the dystopian sci-fi series "Black Mirror" during a House committee meeting.
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AOC Warns That Facial Recognition Is “Real-Life ‘Black Mirror'”

By Kristin Houser

The AI research firm AI Now called for the ban of untested and biased technologies like facial recognition and emotion-detecting algorithms.
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Report: Facial Recognition Should Be Banned From Everyday Life

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers were able to easily fool facial recognition systems at a variety of places, including banks, border crossings, and airports using a mask.
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Hackers Dupe Facial Recognition Systems With Creepy Mask

By Victor Tangermann

A Redditor designed a hat to thwart facial recognition by literally putting on a picture of Chinese President XI Jinping's face which blocks their face.
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This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental TikTok feature available in China lets users highlight someone's face and search for any other time it appears in a post.
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TikTok Tracks Users With Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon, a company that makes facial recognition software for police, is now attempting to write the laws that regulate facial recognition.
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Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Bills

By Dan Robitzski

China plans to "curb and regulate" the use of facial recognition technology in its schools, according to officials from the Ministry of Education.
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Surprise Move: China to Curb Use of Facial Recognition in Schools

By Kristin Houser

Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech
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Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech

By Kristin Houser

Bernie Sanders just announced that he would ban police from using facial recognition tech if he wins in 2020 as part of a broader police reform.
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Bernie Sanders Vows to Ban Police From Using Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Hong Kong protesters are reportedly shining high-powered laser beams at surveillance cameras to confuse facial recognition technology.
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Hong Kong Protesters Use Lasers to Block Facial Recognition Tech

By Kristin Houser

Oakland, California's city council just voted unanimously to ban all municipal uses of facial recognition tech within its borders.
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The City of Oakland Votes to Ban Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.
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Chinese Casinos Use AI, Facial Recognition to Spot Suckers

By Dan Robitzski

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.
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Police Body Camera Maker Decides Against Using Facial Recognition

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers built a new tool that matches DNA samples to specific faces from a database that could be linked to the specific genes found in the sample.
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Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database
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Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database

By Victor Tangermann

The Army is accepting bids from contractors to build a rifle that could automatically targets and scan them with facial recognition.
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The US Army’s Next Rifle May Use Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

New York's State Education Department has asked a public school district to delay its trial of a facial recognition system on students and staff.
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State Attempts to Nix Public School’s Facial Recognition Plans

By Kristin Houser

NYPD detectives uploaded a photo of Woody Harrelson to their facial recognition system to find a suspect that they thought resembled the actor.
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Police Catch Woody Harrelson Look-Alike Using Facial Recognition

By Kristin Houser

San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to pass a facial recognition ban, and the move has the potential to inspire others to follow suit.
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Tech Hub San Francisco First US City to Ban Facial Recognition

By Kristin Houser

Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects
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Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects

By Kristin Houser

AI researcher Os Keyes envisions several "nightmare scenarios" for transgendered people that could result from the deployment of facial recognition tech.
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Researcher: Facial Recognition Tech Could Get Trans People Killed

By Kristin Houser

Casinos all across the globe are starting to use facial recognition systems to improve their ability to keep self-identified problem gamblers away.
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Casinos Are Using Facial Recognition to Keep Banned Gamblers Away

By Kristin Houser

A New York teen is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming its facial recognition system led to his false arrest — but Apple denies the system exists.
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Teen Says Apple’s Facial Recognition Got Him Wrongfully Arrested

By Kristin Houser

Japanese ecommerce firm DeNA has equipped taxis with a facial recognition system that selects ads based on passenger gender and age.
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Japanese Taxis Are Using Facial Recognition to Target Ads to Riders

By Dan Robitzski

A facial recognition trial focused on New York's Robert F. Kennedy Bridge didn't correctly identify a single person's face.
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New York’s Facial Recognition Trial Was a Complete Failure

By Kristin Houser

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car
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Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent blog post, an Amazon VP called for stronger regulations for facial recognition technology, including Amazon's own Rekognition.
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Amazon Calls for Regulation of Its Own Facial Recognition Tech

By Dan Robitzski

A San Francisco Board of Supervisors member proposed to ban facial recognition outright, calling for an approval process for any future surveillance tech.
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San Francisco Is Considering a Ban on Facial Recognition

By Victor Tangermann

During a facial recognition trial, London police stopped a man for "suspicious behavior," but the man claims all he did was cover his face.
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Police Said You Could Skip Public Facial Recognition. They Lied.

By Kristin Houser

Amazon responded to recent criticism its facial recognition system, Rekognition, by claiming safeguards were in place. The cops using it disagree.
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Cops Are Using Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Wrong

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's facial recognition software, Rekognition, struggles to identify the gender of women with darker skin, suggesting ongoing algorithmic bias.
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Amazon’s Facial Recognition Struggles With Darker Skin

By Dan Robitzski

A report from the Chinese media claims that the NYPD is using facial recognition software developed by Chinese companies.
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China Claims US Police Are Using Its Facial Recognition Software

By Kristin Houser

A facial recognition survey indicates that more Americans are now in support of the tech, but that doesn't mean it's ready for widespread implementation.
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Americans Support Facial Recognition Tech — When It Works

By Kristin Houser

The creators of an app called SocialRecall say it can use facial recognition to scan people you meet — or even strangers — and tell you their names.
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This Facial Recognition App Remembers Names so You Don’t Have To

By Jon Christian