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This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You In the Dark
Nearly 1,500 US police departments operate drones but only about a dozen routinely dispatch them in response to 911 calls,…
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FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside…
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This Student Is Taking On ‘Biased’ Exam Software
Porcornie’s legal case is still ongoing. In December, the Dutch Institute of Human Rights issued an interim ruling saying it strongly…
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A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition—and Landed in Big Trouble
In January that year, an Internal Revenue Service contract for online account verification with startup ID.me, which uses selfies and…
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A Face Recognition Site Crawled the Web for Dead People’s Photos
PimEyes positions itself as a tool for people to monitor their online presence. The company charges users $20 to find the…
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Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong
Maryland is a unique place to debate face recognition regulation, says Andrew Northrup, an attorney in the forensics division of…
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Get Used to Face Recognition in Stadiums
Just because face recognition was installed for one use case doesn’t mean it won’t or can’t be adapted to others. In…
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China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition Dealer
Early last year, the government of Bangladesh began weighing an offer from an unnamed Chinese company to build a smart city on…
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Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws
Cathryn Grothe, a research analyst at Freedom House, a US government–backed nonprofit that works on human rights, says she has seen…
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San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department…
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