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An activist in the Netherlands is using AI and facial recognition to identify masked ICE agents from viral arrest videos.
Artificial Intelligence

Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A father was wrongly arrested after the NYPD's facial recognition software identified him based on grainy CCTV video.
Artificial Intelligence

Police Arrest Man With Almost Zero Resemblance to Actual Perpetrator Because AI Told Them To

By Joe Wilkins

Police in Florida are eating crow after it was revealed that a random man was wrongfully arrested based on AI.
Facial recognition

Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime

By Joe Wilkins

A new AI tool called Track is being used as a workaround to the current laws against facial recognition, not to improve the tech.
Facial recognition

The Hot New AI Tool in Law Enforcement Is a Workaround for Places Where Facial Recognition Is Banned

By Foster Kamer

Meta quietly restarted efforts to infuse facial recognition into its smart glasses, according to a report from The Information.
Facial recognition

Years After Promising to Stop Facial Recognition Work, Meta Has a Devious New Plan

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a reporter, the NYPD is using AI to nail the identify of the gunman who killed Brian Thompson. Netizens ridiculed the AI.
Future Society

NYPD Ridiculed for Saying AI Will Find CEO Killer as They Fail to Name Suspect

By Victor Tangermann

A Colorado school district is using facial recognition technology to police vaping in bathrooms, according to the Denver Post.
Artificial Intelligence

Schools Are Using AI Surveillance to Catch Students Vaping Inside Bathrooms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban's smart glasses with facial recognition software.
Hacking

Terrifying Smart Glasses Hack Can Pull Up Personal Info of Nearby Strangers in Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Michal Kosinski, Stanford psychologist, claims that AI programs can detect people's IQ, sexual orientation, and politics by scanning faces.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientist Claims His AI Can Tell Disturbing Things About You Just by Looking at Your Face

By Sharon Adarlo

Supermarkets in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas are selling bullets by way of AI-powered, facial recognition-embedded vending machines.
Facial recognition

In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines Are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To celebrate an April 20 Phish concert, a fan took what is being hailed as the historic, first bong rip at Las Vegas' Sphere.
Future Society

Phish Fan Takes Historic First Bong Rip at Vegas Sphere, Gets Permanently Banned

By Victor Tangermann

A Slovenian startup plans to make robotic home security cameras that can yell preset threats at intruders and shoot them with teargas.
Robotics

New Talking Security Camera Has Robot Gun to Shoot People With Teargas

By Noor Al-Sibai

The college students discovered that the facial recognition software was part of the vending machine's "demographic profiling" feature.
Future Society

Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark

By Frank Landymore

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.
Facial recognition

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.
Facial recognition

Rite Aid’s Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Welsh police used facial recognition software to scan people suspected of terrorism or pedophilia at a Beyonce concert.
Artificial Intelligence

Police Scanned Beyoncé Concert for Pedophiles, Terrorists

By Sharon Adarlo