EUobserver recently published an article about the EU’s new AI Act. Find the full article here. The EU has been at the forefront of developing…
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Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Is Now in Public Defenders’ Hands
10.05.2022
The New York Times recently published an article about Clearview AI’s use to exonerate a public defendant. Find it here. In 2017, Andrew Grantt Conlyn…
Phones Know Who Went to an Abortion Clinic. Whom Will They Tell?
09.03.2022
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on the impact of location data tracking on recent abortion bans across the country. Find it here….
Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India
06.17.2022
Vice recently published an article on the use of biometric data by law enforcement in India. Find it here. As the use of facial recognition…
Clearview AI Under Fire from UK
05.28.2022
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that trains its algorithm with some 20 billion photos scraped from the internet (including websites such as Facebook…
IRS Cancels Plans to Use ID.me Over Privacy and Accuracy Concerns
02.07.2022
The IRS today ceased its plans to require citizens to use ID.me, a facial recognition service, to access their tax records following noted reconsideration from…
Fixing algorithmic bias grows more necessary as companies face losses because of AI bias
01.15.2022
As more leading tech companies develop AI technology used in fields ranging from policing to healthcare, the biases detected in their products are not only…
South Korea Is Giving Millions of Photos to Facial Recognition Researchers
12.09.2021
Vice recently published an article describing the handing over of biometric data of travelers that pass through South Korean airports from the Ministry of Justice…
Senators seek limits on some facial-recognition use by police, energizing surveillance technology debate
07.03.2021
The Washington Post recently published an article detailing a recent bill introduced by Congress to combat the government purchase of data from surveillance technologies without…
AI Bias Could Put Women’s Lives At Risk – A Challenge For Regulators
06.11.2021
Carmen Neithammer published a piece in Forbes in response to a paper by the European Commission that challenged the EU’s position on AI recognition. Oftentimes,…
Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs
05.17.2021
MIT Technology Review recently published a story about an audit that discovered Facebook’s current advertising practice of withholding certain job opportunities from women regardless of…
How a Group of Community Advocates Beat Facial Recognition Surveillance in New Orleans
04.06.2021
Vice recently published an article detailing the successful efforts of a grassroots coalition called Eye on Surveillance in New Orleans to stop the use of…
What is an “algorithm”? It depends who you ask.
02.27.2021
Kristian Lum and Rumman Chowdhury recently published an article for MIT Technology Review on the definition of the word “algorithm” and its implications in policy…
Third Known Arrest From Faulty Facial Recognition with Nijeer Parks
01.11.2021
The New York Times recently published an article sharing the story of Nijeer Parks, who was falsely accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an…
Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting
10.28.2020
The Wall Street Journal wrote about recent developments in a research project from NYU involving Facebook. The article can be found here. Notably, Facebook is…
Another case of facial recognition gone awry in Detroit
08.03.2020
Detroit Free Press wrote about the story of Michael Oliver, who was mistakenly arrested due to the police’s use of facial recognition technology. Find the…
Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
07.07.2020
The New York Times published an article in June about the wrongful arrest of Robert Julian-Borchak Williams due to a mistake in facial recognition software….
Should A Council of Citizens Regulate Algorithms?
06.25.2020
Dr. Federica Carugati wrote this fascinating piece for Wired, suggesting that the key to making an AI-driven future equitable is to take some ideas from…
American AI Initiative from the OSTP
02.07.2020
New artificial intelligence regulations for the private sector now have to adhere to 10 principles recently released by the White House Office of Science and…
Ethical Dimensions of Using Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
07.02.2019
In their February 2019 issue, AMA Journal of Ethics wrote extensively about the ethics of the use of AI in healthcare. Find the full issue…