Facial recognition: It’s time for action - Microsoft On the Issues

In July, we shared our views about the need for government regulation and responsible industry measures to address advancing facial recognition technology. As we discussed, this technology brings important and even exciting societal benefits but also the potential for abuse. We noted the need for broader study and discussion of these issues. In the ensuing...

Opinion | We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. (Published 2020)

The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.

UK police say 92% false positive facial recognition is no big deal

South Wales Police: "No facial recognition system is 100% accurate under all conditions."

Avoiding Ableist Language: Suggestions for Autism Researchers - Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Steven K. Kapp, Jessica Nina Lester, Noah J. Sasson, Brittany N. Hand, 2021

In this commentary, we describe how language used to communicate about autism within much of autism research can reflect and perpetuate ableist ideologies (i.e....

Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests

Deployments of surveillance vans over five months resulted in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders

More than 60 groups tell Home Office to stop using racist and faulty AI facial age estimation tech on asylum-seeking children

This tech could see vulnerable children seeking asylum in the UK facing a serious threat to their safety at the hands of the UK government.

Facial recognition service becomes a weapon against Russian porn actresses

FindFace" was created to find friends, but some are using it to harass women.

Biometrics catches violent fugitive 25 years on the run

Like it or not, facial-recognition tech has become an everyday part of society.

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel?

A Blog post by Ai2 on Hugging Face

Camera Above the Classroom

Chinese schools are using facial recognition on students. But should they?

Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control, House committee hears

Database contains photos of half of US adults without consent, and algorithm is wrong nearly 15% of time and is more likely to misidentify black people

Turnbull denies new facial recognition measures amount to 'mass surveillance'

Prime minister plays down privacy implications of automated face-matching regime under anti-terrorism deal struck with states

Police use of Amazon’s face-recognition service draws privacy warnings

Cloud-based service can index millions of faces and recognize 100 people in an image.