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Better Than AI? These "Super-Recogniser" UK Cops Never Forget A Face
Artificial intelligence and facial recognition software are seen by some as the future of crime-fighting around the world.But British police say it has to go hand in hand with more traditional methods of detection.
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Clearview AI Plans to Bring Facial Recognition Software to Apps, Police-Serving Companies
Clearview AI is planning to introduce its facial recognition software to new companies and apps, especially those serving the police. The step has invited debate over the ethics of leveraging disputed data to design artificial intelligence systems.
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Facial Recognition Software Trialled by Australia to Police COVID-19 Pandemic Rules
Australia's two most populous states are trialling facial recognition software that lets police check people are home during COVID-19 quarantine, expanding trials that have sparked controversy to the vast majority of the country's population.
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Regulation of Face Recognition Software Use Could Be Coming Soon, in the US
A week after Amazon banned the sale of its face recognition technology to police indefinitely, regulation could be coming to determine how such technology can be used. This is in part because the potential for bias in the technology. In 2018, a study on facial recognition technologies found that the software identified lighter-skinned people accura...
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Amazon Extends Ban on Police Use of Facial Recognition Software
Amazon said it is extending until further notice a moratorium it imposed last year on police use of its facial recognition software.
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Facial Recognition Software Helps Reunite Boy With Family After 5 Years
A boy from Uttar Pradesh, who went missing five years ago, was traced to a child welfare home in Assam and reunited with his family, thanks to Telangana Police's facial recognition tool, DARPAN.
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Microsoft Bans Face-Recognition Sales to Police as Big Tech Reacts to Protests
Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM.
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TikTok Faces Scrutiny From EU Watchdogs
TikTok's practices are to be examined by an EU task force, the bloc's privacy watchdog said on Wednesday, which also warned EU police forces against using facial recognition software from US company Clearview AI.
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Amazon Bans Police Use Of Its Facial Recognition Technology For A Year
Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday said it was implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software, halting a business it long defended as many protested law enforcement brutality against people of color.
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IBM Exits Facial Recognition Business, Calls for Police Reform
International Business Machines (IBM) disclosed Monday it will no longer offer facial recognition or analysis software in a letter to Congress calling for new efforts to pursue justice and racial equity, new CEO Arvind Krishna said.
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Better Than AI? These "Super-Recogniser" UK Cops Never Forget A Face
Artificial intelligence and facial recognition software are seen by some as the future of crime-fighting around the world.But British police say it has to go hand in hand with more traditional methods of detection.
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Clearview AI Plans to Bring Facial Recognition Software to Apps, Police-Serving Companies
Clearview AI is planning to introduce its facial recognition software to new companies and apps, especially those serving the police. The step has invited debate over the ethics of leveraging disputed data to design artificial intelligence systems.
-
Facial Recognition Software Trialled by Australia to Police COVID-19 Pandemic Rules
Australia's two most populous states are trialling facial recognition software that lets police check people are home during COVID-19 quarantine, expanding trials that have sparked controversy to the vast majority of the country's population.
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Regulation of Face Recognition Software Use Could Be Coming Soon, in the US
A week after Amazon banned the sale of its face recognition technology to police indefinitely, regulation could be coming to determine how such technology can be used. This is in part because the potential for bias in the technology. In 2018, a study on facial recognition technologies found that the software identified lighter-skinned people accura...
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Amazon Extends Ban on Police Use of Facial Recognition Software
Amazon said it is extending until further notice a moratorium it imposed last year on police use of its facial recognition software.
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Facial Recognition Software Helps Reunite Boy With Family After 5 Years
A boy from Uttar Pradesh, who went missing five years ago, was traced to a child welfare home in Assam and reunited with his family, thanks to Telangana Police's facial recognition tool, DARPAN.
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Microsoft Bans Face-Recognition Sales to Police as Big Tech Reacts to Protests
Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM.
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TikTok Faces Scrutiny From EU Watchdogs
TikTok's practices are to be examined by an EU task force, the bloc's privacy watchdog said on Wednesday, which also warned EU police forces against using facial recognition software from US company Clearview AI.
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Amazon Bans Police Use Of Its Facial Recognition Technology For A Year
Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday said it was implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software, halting a business it long defended as many protested law enforcement brutality against people of color.
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IBM Exits Facial Recognition Business, Calls for Police Reform
International Business Machines (IBM) disclosed Monday it will no longer offer facial recognition or analysis software in a letter to Congress calling for new efforts to pursue justice and racial equity, new CEO Arvind Krishna said.
