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Amazon Extends Moratorium on Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
Photo: PHILIPPE LOPEZ / Contributor (Getty Images) Law enforcement officials are still banned from using Amazon’s facial recognition technology “until…
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Dallas Cops Used Face Recognition Installed on Personal Phones
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Dallas police officers used unauthorized facial recognition software to conduct between 500 and 1,000 searches…
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Clearview AI Was Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies
Photo: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP (Getty Images) A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy…
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How Facial Expressions Could Make Apple’s FaceID More Secure
Securing a device using your face is much easier than remembering a PIN or password, but the technology is not…
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Ulysses Group Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time
Photo: HENNING KAISER/DPA/AFP (Getty Images) A defense contractor that claims to have access to motor vehicle location data on a…
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Facebook Mulling Facial Recognition for Its AR Glasses
Photo: Ted Aljibe (Getty Images) Everyone and their mother is supposedly building a pair of smart glasses now, Facebook included.…
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The LAPD Asked Ring Owners to Hand Over Footage of BLM Protesters
Protesters pass LAPD officers in Los Angeles on June 6, 2020.Photo: Kyle Grillot/AFP (Getty Images) The Los Angeles Police Department…
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Clearview AI Thinks The Solution to Dating Is Facial Recognition
Photo: Philip Fong (Getty Images) Clearview AI, now the byword for unchecked surveillance, has filed a wide-ranging patent application that…
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Minneapolis Bans Cops From Using Facial Recognition
Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images) On Friday, the Minneapolis City Council approved a new ordinance that prevents the city from…
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CBP Facial Recognition Scanners Failed to Find a Single Imposter At Airports in 2020
A woman heading to Copenhagen from Dulles International Airport submits to a VeriScan check in September 2018.Photo: Jim Watson/AFP (Getty…
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