Spy agencies want to accurately ID people from drones and rooftops
Combining facial and body recognition from above, spy agencies are researching how to identify people at long range from drones...
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Facial recognition is the new polygraph test for insurers
Insurance companies in Asia are beginning to use facial recognition to record client interviews, so they can spot when customers are...
‘Privacy is a myth’: AI for surveillance startup Wobot CPO
Wobot Intelligence Chief Product Officer (CPO) Tanay Dixit talks with The Sociable about privacy in the age of mass surveillance from the...
Should govt be transparent about its facial recognition use?
Government transparency in deploying facial recognition software could gain more acceptance among citizens than trying to use it behind their...
Amazon proposes ethical guidelines on facial recognition software use
After months of public outcry over potential ethical abuses of Amazon's facial recognition software Rekognition, Amazon proposes a set of...
Human rights groups ask House not to fund invasive tech for border security
Over 25 human rights and tech groups petition the US House of Representatives to not fund "various invasive surveillance technologies...
Shareholders tell Amazon to stop selling Rekognition facial recognition tech to govt
Amazon shareholders file a resolution demanding that Amazon stop selling facial recognition software Rekognition to government and law enforcement, citing...
ACLU files FOIA request demanding DHS, ICE reveal how they use Amazon Rekognition
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) files a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding that the Department of Homeland...
‘450 Amazon employees tell Bezos to kick Palantir off AWS’
Over 450 Amazon employees sign a letter to Jeff Bezos and other executives demanding that Palantir be removed from Amazon...
Trains, planes and shopping carts: The growing number of locations using facial recognition technology
It appears that facial recognition is quickly becoming one of the world's most promising technologies, along with blockchain and AI....
How video analytics and facial recognition are fighting crime
Security surveillance just got smarter thanks to the development of video analytics and facial recognition technology. With millions of closed-circuit...
Citywide facial recognition cameras could be cool and worrying
Moscow has, according to TechCrunch, turned on facial recognition for the city's CCTV cameras. And that's OK, apparently, because there is...
Facial recognition presents threat to LGBT community
With the hype surrounding the new iPhone X, many are eagerly anticipating the feature that has everyone talking -- unlocking...
iPhone X facial recognition is another example of why Apple is essential to hardware market: opinion
It feels to me like the number of Apple-haters have increased in recent years. Almost to the point where it’s...
Why smart cities need better telecommunications with IoT
Take a look at your city’s skyline, and count the cranes. As cities around the world continue to grow in...
Facial recognition: the new makeover of the selfie in 2016
The art of the selfie, the smartphone trend that has rocked the internet, until now has been limited to the...
Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner confirms deletion of Facebook facial recognition data in the EU
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Both the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Germany have independently confirmed today that all Facebook facial recognition data of European Union citizens has been deleted by the social network.
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How to disable Facebook facial recognition
Facebook has quietly rolled out its new Tag Suggestions feature to most countries over the past few days. Tag Suggestions uses facial recognition technology to auto-suggest names of Facebook friends to tag in photos, something which has alarmed many Facebook users and security firms. Luckily, however, this feature can be easily disabled.
