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Your social media photos could be training facial recognition AI without your consent

sudshr47 March 13, 2019

If your face has ever appeared in a photo on Flickr, it could be currently training facial recognition technology without your permission.

As per a report by NBC News, IBM has been using around one million images from the image-hosting platform to train its facial recognition AI, without the permission of the people in the photos.

In January, IBM revealed its new “Diversity in Faces” dataset with the goal to make facial recognition systems fairer and better at identifying a diverse range of faces — AI algorithms have had difficulty in the past recognising women and people of colour. Read more…

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Surprise! Amazon’s suggestions for facial recognition laws wouldn’t govern them at all

sudshr47 February 8, 2019

Who will guard the guards? Amazon!

Amazon has released guidelines for facial recognition software that it wants lawmakers to consider when crafting legislation. With the post, Amazon joins Microsoft in calling for regulation of the technology, and notably, its application in law enforcement.

Notably, as the ACLU points out, Amazon’s suggestions place the burden of “misuse” of the technology onto the people using the tech — not onto the manufacturer, Amazon. Surprise!

“Proposing a weak framework does not absolve Amazon of responsibility for its face surveillance product,” Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU senior legislative counsel, told Mashable over email. Read more…

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Amazon’s Ring has been reportedly spying on customers

sudshr47 January 22, 2019

Anonymous sources confirmed that higher-ups working at the company had “highly privileged access” to the live feeds of its customers. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Spy, Facial Recognition Technology, Amazon Ring, and Smart Doorbell

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Chinese facial recognition system catches jaywalker, turns out to be a bus

sudshr47 November 23, 2018

China hasn’t been shy about using facial recognition tech to catch jaywalkers, and publicly shame them.
The technology aims to dissuade bad behaviour by recognising the offender’s face, checking it with a database, then posting their information on p…

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Live Nation to roll out facial recognition at events, and we’re not cheering

sudshr47 May 4, 2018

One day after the President of the United States proclaimed the new holiday of state “Loyalty Day,” a conglomerate has made an announcement about its ability to track the faces and movements of its millions of IRL customers.
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Look out, Face ID: This hat can fool facial recognition

sudshr47 March 22, 2018

You’re going down, Face ID. Researchers from Fudan University in China, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Indiana University, and Alibaba Inc. have created a baseball cap that can reliably fool facial recognition software into thinking that you’re…

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Order burgers with your face with this restaurant’s facial recognition kiosk

sudshr47 December 20, 2017

Why bother trying to describe your perfect, nitpicky burger over the counter when you could just order one with your face?

Caliburger launched a new point-of-sale system on Tuesday that lets customers order using facial recognition technology. (This isn’t the first time the American fast food chain has gone high tech — it previously welcomed a burger-flipping robot called Flippy.)

The first time customers order using the in-store kiosks, they’ll be prompted to attach their face to their account using NeoFace biometric facial recognition software.

By recording your face in the system, you’ll be able to automatically bring up a past order next time with a simple face scan, and earn points (or Calicoins) toward free food down the track. You still have to use your credit card for now, but the company hopes to replace this with face-only payment by 2018. Read more…

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Private companies could have access to this country’s facial recognition database

sudshr47 November 27, 2017

Signing up for a phone contract? Telecoms companies could be getting another way to check you’re the right person.
When the Australian government announced in October it would add photos from government identification and driver’s licences to a natio…