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Facial recognition used to strip adult industry workers of anonymity

A name-and-shame database is supposed to “save” husbands from wives who have appeared on porn sites.

The city that gave us facial recognition tech says “not in my back yard”.

He claims that Apple allegedly uses the technology to spot shoplifters and that it falsely linked him to a series of Apple store thefts.

The privacy think tank had them for 20 days, and one of the docs was already displayed at a conference, but the NYPD is still clawing them back.

The main disagreement: if consumers will be able to delete their data or whether the law would give companies ways to wiggle out.

A company operating a facial recognition system in China has exposed millions of residents’ personal information online.

How easy is it to bypass the average smartphone’s facial recognition security? In the case of Android, a lot easier than owners may think.

A new presentation shows how vein authentication systems can be fooled using a fake wax hand model.

Forbes has added to the ever-growing pantheon of ways to trick biometrics by printing a 3D head and using it to break into Android phones.

Profits are nice, but “We don’t believe that the world will be best served by a commercial race to the bottom,” says President Brad Smith.