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Washington state Senate passes bill to rein in facial recognition

The bill now goes to the House, which has a stiffer competing bill pending that would call for a 3.5 year moratorium.

It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.

A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it’s finally done churning through the courts.

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.

Our unique dancing style can be used by a machine-learning model to ID us, regardless of musical genre. Unless it’s Metal. We all headbang.

“People think they’re going to put on a cute filter and have puppy dog ears, and not realize that that data’s being collected.”

Fight for the Future is building on its success in pressuring concert promoters to back off of plans to use the technology at festivals.

Google is testing out a feature to make Android’s built-in password manager safer.

If that bill passes, you can say bye-bye to YouTube, says one content creator.

The technology – which Facebook won’t use in its own apps – subtly distorts face images so they’re still recognizable, but not to machines.