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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.
Future Society

Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Clearview AI, maker of AI-powered facial recognition software used widely by US cops, claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos for AI training.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

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.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

Ukraine Reportedly Using Facial Recognition to Send Photos of Dead Russian Soldiers to Their Mothers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A crypto startup promising users $20 worth of its Worldcoin cryptocurrency hasn't actually paid anything out despite claiming to help alleviate poverty.
Future Society

Startup That Exchanges Crypto for Eyeball Scans Descends Into Chaos

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An Israeli AI company claims it can create a model of a face using DNA that can then be fed into a facial recognition system, a highly dubious claim.
Future Society

Startup Slammed for Saying It Can Reconstruct Faces From DNA

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

Senior employees at the security camera company Verkada used the company's own facial recognition to sexually harass their coworkers.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

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.
Developments

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 U.S. Army is developing tech that uses facial recognition software to identify targets from up to .5 kilometers away, even in the dark.
Artificial Intelligence

Army Developing Tech to ID Terrorists in the Dark From .5 KM Away

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

Using head-mounted cameras to scan faces in Washington, D.C., Fight for the Future protestors hoped to draw attention to facial recognition surveillance.
Artificial Intelligence

Protestors Wearing Head-Mounted Cameras Scan 13,000 Faces in DC

By Kristin Houser

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.
Future Society

This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

ACLU had filed a lawsuit against the FBI, DOJ, and DEA for information on their use of surveillance technology, such as facial recognition software.
Future Society

ACLU Sues FBI For “Dystopian Surveillance Technology” Info

By Kristin Houser

Citizens in China will have to have their face scanned by facial recognition when signing up for internet services or a new number.
Future Society

China Will Make Citizens Scan Faces to Sign Up for Internet

By Victor Tangermann

The AI used by the UK government to review people's passport photos contains built-in biases against people with darker skin. The gov. deployed it anyway.
Artificial Intelligence

The UK Knew Its Passport AI Was Racist — and Used It Anyway

By Dan Robitzski

The Hong Kong government has announced a ban on any face masks or paints that are "likely to prevent identification" during public demonstrations.
Artificial Intelligence

Hong Kong Bans Surveillance-Thwarting Face Masks

By Jacob Banas

Contractors hired to collect face scans for Google specifically targeted homeless black people and lied to them about the nature of the collection.
Google

Google Contractors Tricked Homeless Black People Into Face Scans

By Kristin Houser

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

A newly announced campaign calls on Ticketmaster to end its use of facial recognition tech to scan fans' faces at concerts.
Artificial Intelligence

Musicians Don’t Want Ticketmaster Scanning Your Face at Concerts

By Kristin Houser

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

Authorities in Hong Kong are spraying crowds of protestors with canons full of blue dye to make them easy to identify for later arrest.
Future Society

Police Are Spraying Protesters With Dye to Round Them up Later

By Kristin Houser

The U.K. has new surveillance CCTV cameras that can read people's lips, and privacy-focused government watchdogs are not happy about it.
Future Society

UK Watchdog Is Worried Government Will Deploy Lip-Reading CCTVs

By Dan Robitzski

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.
Future Society

Bernie Sanders Vows to Ban Police From Using Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon claims its Rekognition software can now detect fear on a person's face, as well as provide a better estimate of their age.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Claims Rekognition Can Now Detect Fear

By Kristin Houser

Hacker and IT security analyst Truman Kain has created a surveillance tool that can tell you in real-time if you're being followed while driving your Tesla.
Tesla

This Tesla Surveillance Hack Can Tell You if You’re Being Followed

By Victor Tangermann

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

The newly launched AI Bar system uses facial recognition technology to ensure bar patrons are served in the proper order.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Scans Faces to Let Bartenders Know Who’s Next in Line

By Kristin Houser

Oakland, California's city council just voted unanimously to ban all municipal uses of facial recognition tech within its borders.
Future Society

The City of Oakland Votes to Ban Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Protests broke out at an Amazon AWS Summit in New York City on Thursday. Tech workers and immigration activists demanded the company stop helping ICE.
Future Society

Protesters Interrupt Amazon Event to Decry Its Work With ICE

By Dan Robitzski

Officials from the FBI, ICE, and other government agencies are using facial recognition tech to scan databases of DMV photos.
Artificial Intelligence

The FBI Is Scanning DMV Photos of Law-Abiding Americans

By Kristin Houser

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

Some 100,000 travelers had their images and license plate numbers stored by U.S. Customs stolen by hackers, The New York Times reports.
Hacking

Hackers Steal 100,000 Traveler Photos from U.S. Customs

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database
Data Privacy

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

By analyzing only a short audio clip of a person's voice, this artificial intelligence reconstructs what they might look like in real life.
Artificial Intelligence

Astounding AI Guesses What You Look Like Based on Your Voice

By Jon Christian

Police in the UK must defend their use of facial recognition tech in court for the first time, and the court's ruling could set a powerful precedent.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Takes Police to Court for Scanning His Face Without Consent

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