Tag: Facial Recognition Software
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Amazon’s facial recognition moratorium has major loopholes
In a surprise blog post, Amazon said it will put the brakes on providing its facial recognition technology to police for one year, but …
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Divesting from one facial recognition startup, Microsoft ends outside investments in the tech
Microsoft is pulling out of an investment in an Israeli facial recognition technology developer as part of a broader policy shift to halt …
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Amazon defeated shareholder’s vote on facial recognition by a wide margin
Efforts by shareholders to instruct Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology to government customers failed by a wide …
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Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition sale ban to governments
Amazon shareholders have rejected two proposals that would have requested the company not to sell its facial recognition technology to …
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‘They Would Go Absolutely Nuts’: How a Mark Cuban-Backed Facial Recognition Firm Tried to Work With Cops
Facial recognition technology is becoming more common across the United States, for both law enforcement and private companies. Now, emails …
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AI May Soon Defeat Biometric Security, Even Facial Recognition Software
Threat actors will soon gain access to artificial intelligence (AI) tools that will enable them to defeat multiple forms of authentication …
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3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone
There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: from prosthetics, corneas, and firearms — even an Olympic-standard …
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Lawmakers say Amazon’s facial recognition software may be racially biased and harm free expression
Amazon has “failed to provide sufficient answers” about its controversial facial recognition software, Rekognition — and lawmakers …
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Five years and one pivot later, Trueface emerges with a promise for better facial recognition tech
Shaun Moore and Nezare Chafni didn’t initially intend to develop a new standalone facial recognition technology, when they first got …
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Unbiased algorithms can still be problematic
Creating unbiased, accurate algorithms isn’t impossible — it’s just time consuming. “It actually is mathematically possible,” …
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