Facebook users in Europe are reporting the company has begun testing its controversial facial recognition technology in the region. Jimmy Nsubuga, a journalist at Metro, is among several European Facebook users who have said they’ve been notified by the company they are in its test bucket. The company has previously said an opt-in option for facial […]
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Data experts on Facebook’s GDPR changes: Expect lawsuits
Make no mistake: Fresh battle lines are being drawn in the clash between data-mining tech giants and Internet users over people’s right to control their personal information and protect their privacy. An update to European Union data protection rules next month — called the General Data Protection Regulation — is the catalyst for this next chapter […]
View More Data experts on Facebook’s GDPR changes: Expect lawsuitsFacebook’s facial recognition features could cost it billions of dollars
If you thought Facebook was already having a bad couple weeks, a federal judge just reminded us that things could get a whole lot worse for the company.
A judge in San Francisco ruled Monday that Facebook users in Illinois can proceed with a class ac…
Mysterious company is using Facebook to build a massive facial-recognition database
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Facebook has been under fire for its handling of personal data, but what companies around the world can do with that data is even more frightening.
Over the past five years, Terrogence, a surveillance company founded by former Israeli intelligence officers, has been using social networking sites including Facebook and YouTube to build a giant facial-recognition database, Forbes reports.
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The database is part of Terrogence’s facial-recognition service Face-Int. It contains the faces of thousands of terrorism suspects, harvested from as many as 35,000 videos and photos. Read more…
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View More Mysterious company is using Facebook to build a massive facial-recognition databaseJudge says class action suit against Facebook over facial recognition can go forward
Whenever a company may be guilty of something, from petty neglect to grand deception, there’s usually a class action lawsuit filed. But until a judge rules that lawsuit legitimate, the threat remains fairly empty. Unfortunately for Facebook, one major suit from 2015 has just been given that critical go-ahead.
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Jamie Metzl Contributor Share on Twitter Jamie Metzl is a Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security at the Atlantic Council. More posts by this contributor Homo Sapiens 2.0? We need a species-wide conversation about the future of human genetic enhancement Eleonore Pauwels Contributor Share on Twitter Eleonore Pauwels is Director of the Anticipatory Intelligence […]
View More Is America’s national security Facebook and Google’s problem?Chinese police used facial recognition to catch a suspect in a crowd of 60,000
Looks like the Chinese surveillance state is really up and running, guys!
Chinese state news agency ECNS reported Thursday that police used facial recognition-enabled cameras to catch a criminal suspect amongst a crowd of 60,000 concert-goers. Cool!
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Zuckerberg urges privacy carve outs to compete with China
Facebook’s founder said last month that the company is open to being regulated. But today he got asked by the US senate what sort of legislative changes he would (and wouldn’t) like to see as a fix for the problems that the Cambridge Analytica data scandal has revealed. Zuckerberg’s response on this — and on […]
View More Zuckerberg urges privacy carve outs to compete with ChinaFed up with Facebook, activists find new ways to defend their movements
Malkia Cyril Contributor Share on Twitter Malkia Cyril is founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network. In the wake of revelations that the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users was used by data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2016 […]
View More Fed up with Facebook, activists find new ways to defend their movementsLook out, Face ID: This hat can fool facial recognition
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…
View More Look out, Face ID: This hat can fool facial recognitionMicrosoft advances several of its hosted artificial intelligence algorithms
Microsoft Cognitive Services is home to the company’s hosted artificial intelligence algorithms. Today, the company announced advances to several Cognitive Services tools including Microsoft Custom Vision Service, the Face API and Bing Entity Search . Joseph Sirosh, who leads the Microsoft’s cloud AI efforts, defined Microsoft Cognitive Services in a company blog post announcing… Read More
How to turn off Facebook’s new face recognition features
Facebook gave users a scare this week when it began sending a notification in its mobile app, declaring it was introducing face recognition for more features.
The new developments are designed to give users more control over a few Facebook experience…