Travel Industry Adoption of Facial Recognition Grows
By Joel R. McConvey Travelers are likely to be among the first to experience the mass worldwide commercial deployment of facial recognition, with a steady…
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Leaked Email: CBP Tells Airports Its New Facial Recognition Target is 75% of Passengers Leaving the US
By Joseph Cox Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has told airports it plans to increase its targets for scanning passengers with facial recognition as they…
Here’s the Newest Camera Hack Fraudsters are Using to Beat Facial Recognition
By Stuart Wells, Chief Technology Officer at Jumio As organizations have tried to stay ahead of cybercriminals, faces and other biometrics have become the passwords…
From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape
By Nick Corbishley The Home Office is encouraging police forces across the country to make use of live facial recognition technologies for routine law enforcement….
Use of Face Biometrics Sharply Criticized in Two US Criminal Cases
By Bianca Gonzalez Kylese Perryman, 21, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against two police agencies in the U.S. state of Minnesota following his…
Even Accurate and Unbiased Facial Recognition Brings Privacy, Cost Harms, Groups Say
By Chris Burt Demands to halt facial recognition use in Canada, at least pending further study and legislation, are not being met, or at least…
Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him
By Karen Gullo In a victory for transparency in police use of facial recognition, a New Jersey appellate court today ruled that state prosecutors—who charged…
Consumer Group Warns Smartphone Facial Recognition Apps Are Vulnerable to Spoofing
By B.N. Frank Over the years, it has been reported numerous times that artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technologies are highly susceptible to inaccuracies, biases, and various…
Facial Recognition Shows Up in Public Housing, Small Cities
By Jim Nash The race to make biometric surveillance commonplace is only getting faster, with systems going up in public housing and municipalities far from…
TSA Rolls Out More Facial Recognition At Major Airports
What the TSA started as a pilot program during the Great Panic of 2020, is now being rolled out to major airports across America. The…
Thwarting Facial Recognition — “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
By The Corbett Report We all know about the danger of a future society where we’re all tracked everywhere we go every single day in…
London Food Bank Rolling Out Face Biometrics App for Store Purchases
By Chris Burt A London food bank is expanding its use of face biometrics to facilitate the distribution of food to its customers through local…
Currency Exchange Kiosks with ITL Face Biometrics Deployed Across Europe
By Chris Burt Currency exchange kiosks using facial recognition software developed by Innovative Technology Ltd. (ITL) to comply with daily transaction limits have rolled out…
Clearview AI Copied 30B Images Without Users’ Permission from Social Media Sites; Customers Include “more than 3,100 US agencies”
By B.N. Frank Facial recognition and other sources of artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology can be biased, inaccurate, and privacy invasive (see 1, 2, 3, 4,…