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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…

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…

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…

Rewriting Dystopian Plotlines: It’s All in the Algorithm
08.06.2021
The cases read like dystopian novel plotlines: a man is randomly arrested for robbing a watch store he has just visited. Despite a woman’s qualifications,…

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…

A Tool to Find Out If Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
02.08.2021
The New York Times recently published a piece describing the troubling findings of Exposing.AI that indicate the extent to which personal photos have been used…