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Tag Archives: facial recognition
Clearview AI facial recogition sued again – this time by ACLU
Clearview AI, the company that’s scraped billions of images to build a facial recognition system, is getting sued again.
Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies
… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.
NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners
The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn’t bother to respond.
Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition
As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says.
IWD: biometrics, machine learning, privacy and being a woman in tech – Naked Security Podcast
To celebrate International Women’s Day we invite you to this all-female splinter episode.
S2 Ep29: Facial recognition, malware madness and smart speakers – Naked Security Podcast
Listen to the latest episode now!
Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images
It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.
Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?
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.