IBM Developing Huge Public Dataset to Help Eliminate Bias from Facial Recognition
“IBM is going to release a dataset of 36,000 facial images that will be equally distributed across a range of ethnicities, genders, and ages.” As the…
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Biometric Butterflye Migrates to Canada
Biometric surveillance technology for the home continues to spread, with the Ooma Butterflye having landed in Canada. It’s a compact video surveillance camera…
‘Our Company Should Not Be In the Surveillance Business’: Amazon Employees
Amazon’s own employees have now joined the chorus of voices calling for the company to halt its sale of biometric surveillance technology to law enforcement…
ACLU Criticism of Amazon Facial Recognition Pays Dividends
Just a month after the ACLU made Amazon’s sale of facial recognition technology to government authorities a matter of public debate, a group of prominent…
ACLU’s Attack on Amazon Surveillance Tech Misses Bigger Issue: ITIF
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is pushing back against the ACLU’s efforts to get Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology…
OPD, Amazon Play Down Rekognition Use After ACLU Report
“Responding to the report, the Orlando Police Department’s chief, John Mina, held a press conference at which he insisted that his department was only testing…
ACLU Urges Amazon to Stop Selling Surveillance Tech to Gov’t
The American Civil Liberties Union is urging Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition system to government authorities, warning that it threatens privacy…
FIDO Alliance Welcomes Amazon to Board of Directors
“We look forward to the valuable inputs from Amazon as the FIDO Alliance continues to work towards our goal to provide open standards that will help enable the…