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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Kristin Houser

Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech
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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database
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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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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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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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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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By Kristin Houser

Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects
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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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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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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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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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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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By Kristin Houser

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Jon Christian

Google won a key Illinois lawsuit that has long been a barrier to big tech companies' use of facial recognition software.
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By Jacob Banas

Police in London will conduct another trial of their highly inaccurate facial recognition technology, the seventh since 2016.
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By Kristin Houser

At a May 2018 concert, pop start Taylor Swift used facial recognition technology to scan the crowd for any signs of her many known stalkers.
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By Kristin Houser

Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, issued a dire warning of a future where facial recognition tech helps the government track civilians. He's helping it.
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By Dan Robitzski

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By Jon Christian

A European aquaculture giant that says it's working on a facial recognition system to track the health of millions of salmon.
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By Jon Christian

A pilot program using facial recognition tech at airports catches a man from the Republic of Congo presenting a passport that didn't belong to him.
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By Kristin Houser

Open-source tool Social Mapper can help white hat hackers keep up with the black hats, but also has the potential to create more of the latter.
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By Kristin Houser

Microsoft President Calls For Government Rules For Facial Recognition Technology
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By Victor Tangermann

The Digest: Facial Recognition Tech Is No Match for Juggalo Makeup
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By Kristin Houser

New Facial Recognition Software Tracks and Protects Endangered Primates
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By Kristin Houser

Security Companies Want To Use Facial Recognition To Stop School Shootings
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By Victor Tangermann