February 21, 2020

Washington state Senate passes bill to rein in facial recognition

The bill now goes to the House, which has a stiffer competing bill pending that would call for a 3.5 year moratorium.

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February 07, 2020

Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

It's my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we're just doing what Google Search does.

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January 31, 2020

Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit

A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it's finally done churning through the courts.

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January 28, 2020

Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.

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January 27, 2020

Tinder to get panic button, catfish-fighting facial recognition

It's both a genius move to protect from assault and fraud and a personal data grab.

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January 17, 2020

Facial recognition is real-life ‘Black Mirror’ stuff, Ocasio-Cortez says

"People think they're going to put on a cute filter and have puppy dog ears, and not realize that that data's being collected."

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January 16, 2020

College students call for ban on facial recognition on campus

Fight for the Future is building on its success in pressuring concert promoters to back off of plans to use the technology at festivals.

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October 29, 2019

New Facebook AI fools facial recognition

The technology - which Facebook won't use in its own apps - subtly distorts face images so they're still recognizable, but not to machines.

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October 21, 2019

Don’t look now, but Pixel 4’s Face Unlock works with eyes closed

There's a risk that someone might get hold of a device and unlock it by holding the screen to the face of its sleeping or unconscious owner.

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