Photo credit: Jing-Cai LiuLet’s face it, facial recognition systems will soon be installed just about everywhere for surveillance purposes, but those looking to defeat them might have to resort to extreme measures, such as this wearable face projector by Jing-Cai Liu. This invention is exactly as it sounds, or a headband of sorts equipped with […]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) touched off controversy by suggesting the Detroit Police Department should let only African Americans analyze facial recognition results. (Alex Edelman/Bloomberg) When Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) was invited to tour the Detroit Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center, the purpose was to explain how officers use facial recognition when policing the streets
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Weeks ago, when a brief Twitter spat between between Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and the Detroit Police Department over the latter’s use of facial recognition software ended with an invitation for Tlaib to come and visit the Real Time Crime Center headquarters, I mentioned in an article that if the Congresswoman took them up on
Few technologies are more controversial and divisive as facial recognition. Customers have come to rely on it to log into their phones and tablets, police and government agencies are increasingly using it to identify suspects and privacy advocates decry it as an unconstitutional invasion of people’s rights. Amazon has established itself as a leader in
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks with reporters at a reception following the company’s Alexa devices and services unveiling at the Amazon Spheres on Wednesday evening in Seattle, with Amazon executives Jay Carney and Dave Limp to his right. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Jeff Bezos made a surprise appearance at an Amazon press reception Wednesday
Image copyright Getty Images UK police and companies must stop using live facial recognition for public surveillance, politicians and campaigners have said. The technology allows faces captured on CCTV to be checked in real time against watch lists, often compiled by police. Privacy campaigners say it is inaccurate, intrusive and infringes on an individual’s right
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California Assemblyman Phil Ting has never been arrested, but he was recently mistaken for a criminal. He’s not surprised. Ting (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill to ban facial recognition software from being used on police body cameras, was one of 26 California legislators who was incorrectly matched with a mug shot in a recent
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Taking one of the toughest stands in the nation against police use of facial recognition technology, California lawmakers on Thursday passed legislation barring police from installing it on body-worn cameras for three years. The legislation, which now awaits action by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was scaled back at Newsom’s request from an original proposal that called
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Last month, members of the California legislature were subject to a surveillance experiment, courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union. Their portraits were fed into Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition software and compared with a database of 25,000 arrest mug shots. Twenty-six lawmakers were incorrectly identified as matches. The would-be suspects included Assemblyman Phil Ting, a
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from the police-officers-dig-deep,-find-new-lows dept When the police have already decided who they like for some unsolved crime, almost nothing will stop them from getting their man. Investigations are supposed to involve investigating. But when a handful of tipsters said a black man robbed a bank, the Portland PD went to work trying to pin four
