Home Depot And Lowe’s Accused Of Scanning Millions Of Customers Faces
By MassPrivateI Home improvement stores like Home Depot and Lowe’s have become partners in Big Brother’s ever expanding public surveillance program. Home Depot’s “You Can Do…
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Oakland City Council Bans Facial Recognition
By Michael Maharrey Yesterday, the Oakland City Council gave final approval for a ban of facial recognition technology by the city. The new ordinance not…
Snowden Spills: Infamous Whistleblower Opines on Spycraft, AI, and Being Suicided
By Tyler Durden Edward Snowden has finally laid it all out – documenting his memoirs in a new 432-page book, Permanent Record, which will be…
Musicians Team Up With Fans And Fight For The Future To Ban Facial Recognition Technology At Concerts
By Aaron Kesel Several musicians and festivals are coming together to call to an end to concert promoters using facial recognition at venues and music…
Danger! Facial Recognition Coming This Holiday Season!
By Jason Bermas The big PR push for smart home tech is rolling out en masse as we near the holiday season. For some reason,…
Zao’s Deepfake Face-swapping App Shows Uploading Your Photos is Riskier Than Ever
By Alexandros Antoniou, University of Essex The latest photo app craze can make you look like a movie star. Zao uses artificial intelligence to replace…
Facebook is Changing Its Face Recognition Settings. We Have Questions.
By Jennifer Lynch and Adam Schwartz Yesterday Facebook announced it was changing its settings for face recognition, which it has used since 2010 to match…
This Metal Jewelry Blocks Facial Recognition Software From Tracking You
By Emma Fiala As technology advances, more and more people are tossing their arms in the air and declaring they’ve got nothing to hide while…
Facial Recognition: 10 Reasons You Should Be Worried About The Technology
By Birgit Schippers, Queen’s University Belfast Facial recognition technology is spreading fast. Already widespread in China, software that identifies people by comparing images of their…
Cops Are Now Using Facial Recognition Tech To Detect FEAR in Real Time…What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
By Press For Truth The militarization of our police has taken an Orwellian turn for the worse as technology is merging with the force to…
Amazon’s Facial Recognition Technology Can Now Detect Fear in People: Claim
By Jessica Corbett Privacy advocates are responding with alarm to Amazon’s claim this week that the controversial cloud-based facial recognition system the company markets to law enforcement…
U.S. Customs Continues to “Modernize” Its System to Include Biometrics For All Passengers
By Nicholas West One aspect often lost in the immigration debate is the rollout of government solutions that are set to restrict the freedom of…
Victory! Lawsuit May Proceed Against Facebook’s Biometric Surveillance
By Adam Schwartz Biometric surveillance by companies against consumers is a growing menace to our privacy, freedom of expression, and civil rights. Fortunately, a federal…
A.I. “RoboCops” Continue Rolling Out Across U.S. Collecting Biometrics and Creating Blacklists
By Nicholas West The move toward using robots in law enforcement, private security, and even to scare away the homeless, has been a decade-long trend…