Tag: facial recognition

Face Recognition Is Out. So How Will the IRS Verify Identity?

Such problems led the IRS and many others to switch to alternatives, such as sending a code to a phone number checked against credit...

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos

Clearview AI has stoked controversy by scraping the web for photos and applying facial recognition to give police and others an unprecedented ability to...

As the Use of AI Spreads, Congress Looks to Rein It In

There’s bipartisan agreement in Washington that the US government should do more to support development of artificial intelligence technology. The Trump administration redirected...

The Next Target for a Facial Recognition Ban? New York

Civil rights activists have successfully pushed for bans on police use of facial recognition in cities like Oakland, San Francisco, and Somerville, Massachusetts....

Job Screening Service Halts Facial Analysis of Applicants

Job hunters may now need to impress not just prospective bosses but artificial intelligence algorithms too—as employers screen candidates by having them answer...

A Startup Will Nix Algorithms Built on Ill-Gotten Facial Data

Late last year, San Francisco face-recognition startup Everalbum won a $2 million contract with the Air Force to provide “AI-driven access control.” Monday, another...

Congress Is Eyeing Face Recognition, and Companies Want a Say

Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington think tank that receives funding from the tech industry, says face...

When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks ‘Official.’ A Woman? ‘Smile’

All 20 lawmakers are smiling in their official photos. Google’s top suggested labels noted a smile for only one of the men, but for...

Did a University Use Facial Recognition to ID Student Protesters?

In late September, Mars Fernandez-Burgos, a doctoral student in counseling psychology at the University of Miami, received a one-line email from the assistant to...

This Film Examines the Biases in the Code That Runs Our Lives

Shalini Kantayya is the documentary filmmaker behind the recent films Catching the Sun and Coded Bias, which premiered this month online. Coded Bias...

Couple Challenge: Privacy Ending Trap for Facial Surveillance or Random Social Trend?

Couple Challenge, and other similar social media 'challenges' such as the '10-year challenge', may be the easiest way to bolster facial recognition surveillance algorithms...

Portland’s Face-Recognition Ban Is a New Twist on ‘Smart Cities’

That led the group to get the cameras in Portland’s streetlight sensors, which originated elsewhere in city bureaucracy, disabled before deployment, averting the problems...

Coronavirus: Mitra, the Rs 10 lakh robot, helps India’s Covid-19 patients speak to loved ones

A hospital in India has deployed a customer-service robot to patrol its wards, connecting coronavirus patients to friends and relatives. Mitra, meaning “friend”...

This Week In Credit Card News: Paying With Your Face; A Credit Card Bonus Worth $975 In Points

Forget Credit Cards. Now You Can Pay With Your Face. Creepy Or Cool? A new way to pay has arrived in Los Angeles: your...

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