Amazon must let shareholders vote on controversial facial recognition technology
Shareholders will vote on two proposals at the company’s annual meeting.
On Apr 6, 2019 by Samira Sadeque
Man fined for telling cops to ‘piss off’ after hiding from facial recognition camera
Police in the U.K. are trying out a controversial facial recognition system.
On Feb 1, 2019 by Mikael Thalen
3D-printed head fools Android facial recognition
But your iPhone will likely stay safe.
On Dec 17, 2018 by Mikael Thalen
Amazon still won’t say whether ICE uses its facial recognition tech
Who is using Amazon’s ‘Rekognition’ tool?
On Dec 13, 2018 by Mikael Thalen
Protesters rally in Jeff Bezos masks over Amazon’s pitch of facial recognition tech to ICE
‘Profit or civil rights?’
On Oct 31, 2018 by Sunny Kim
FBI reportedly uses Apple’s facial recognition tech to access suspect’s phone
It’s a shocking precedent.
On Oct 1, 2018 by Josh Katzowitz
Report: NYPD helped IBM secretly develop technology that identifies people by skin color
The NYPD has stopped using the technology.
On Sep 6, 2018 by Christina Bonnington
Can law enforcement be trusted with facial recognition technology?
Facial recognition is everywhere now. What can people do?
On Aug 6, 2018 by Ben Dickson
Amazon’s facial recognition may be racist
It misidentified numerous Black and Latino lawmakers as criminals.
On Jul 26, 2018 by Christina Bonnington
How hackers can force AI to make dumb mistakes
It’s only a matter of time before these attacks hit the mainstream.
On Jun 18, 2018 by Ben Dickson
Orlando police say they’d never use Amazon facial recognition on ‘random citizens’
But eventually, isn’t that what it’s for?
On May 25, 2018 by Christina Bonnington
Amazon Rekognition was always destined to be a privacy nightmare
‘Once dangerous face surveillance systems are built and deployed, the harm can’t be undone.’
On May 23, 2018 by Benjamin Powers
Civil rights groups slam Amazon for selling facial recognition tool to police
Civil rights advocates fear it will be used for surveillance.
On May 22, 2018 by Phillip Tracy
Police facial recognition had a startling number of false positives at major soccer match
Police are defending the use of the technology.
On May 7, 2018 by Christina Bonnington
Facebook packages facial recognition in privacy law Trojan horse
The feature is opt-in.
On Apr 20, 2018 by Phillip Tracy
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