Privacy Concerns of “Mission Creep” with New Airport Facial Recognition Programs
By Nicholas West It’s a trend that is quickly becoming accepted reality – biometric identification at U.S. airports. So far, it has been marketed mainly…
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Welcome To The Minority Report: Thousands Of Stores Plan Facial Recognition Use For Anti-Theft
By Aaron Kesel Hundreds of retail stores and soon thousands are investigating using biometric facial recognition software FaceFirst to build a database of shoplifters to…
Idemia: The Corporation Building Spy Grid in China, National ID in India Also Creates Drivers Licenses in the U.S.
By Daniel Taylor Company that helps manufacture U.S. citizens drivers licenses brags of “building and managing databases of entire populations” across the globe. Big Tech…
John Mackey (Whole Foods) Won’t Talk About Amazon’s Facial Recognition Program
By The Conscious Resistance Journalist Derrick Broze attempts to question John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, about his controversial partnership with Amazon. Amazon’s Rekognition…
Tokyo Olympics Using Facial Recognition For Security
By Aaron Kesel The Tokyo Olympics 2020 announced they will use facial recognition technology NeoFace to increase security around all of the sporting venues, NY Post…
MLB And NFL Fans Submit Their Faces And Fingerprints To Buy Food, Beer And Tickets
By MassPrivateI If you still value your privacy, I urge you to stay away from major league sporting events. Yesterday, CLEAR biometrics announced that they…
Waldo Photos Claims it is “fun to use facial recognition” at Summer Camps
By MassPrivateI There is nothing and I mean nothing that can justify using facial recognition to spy on kids at summer camps. But don’t take…
Amazon’s Facial “Rekognition” Mismatches 28 Lawmakers With Criminals
By Aaron Kesel The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California tested Amazon’s facial Rekognition software and the program erroneously and hilariously identified 28 members of…
Facial Recognition Tech Company Refuses to Sell to Governments
By Derrick Broze The CEO of a company that makes facial recognition software has publicly stated that his company will not sell to law enforcement…
Amazon Shareholders Call On Jeff Bezos To Stop Selling Facial “Rekognition” Software To Police
By Aaron Kesel An astounding 20 groups of Amazon shareholders sent its CEO, Jeff Bezos, a letter urging him to stop selling the company’s face…
ITIF Claims Police Use Of Amazon Rekognition Is “Patriotic”
By MassPrivateI A few weeks ago, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) released a letter claiming that Amazon’s Rekognition technology was “patriotic and can benefit…
Real-Time Drone Surveillance System Is Being Programmed To Detect Violence
By Nicholas West Just a little over 10 years after drone surveillance inside U.S. borders was declared a conspiracy theory, it is now an indisputable…
HART: Homeland Security’s Massive New Database Will Include Face Recognition, DNA, and People’s “Non-Obvious Relationships”
By Jennifer Lynch So why do we know so little about it? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly building what will likely…
Amazon’s Rekognition Surveillance Tool Will Grant Police Even More Surveillance Power
By Derrick Broze Amazon is facing pressure from civil liberties groups for the corporation’s role in building the infrastructure which powers government surveillance. The Electronic…