Is Google Actually Selling Facial Recognition to Israel?
What are the Project Nimbus protests really about? Earlier this month, employees of Google and Amazon took to the streets to protest their employers’ work with…
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Long Beach Commission Doubles Down on Police Facial Recognition Ban
The Technology and Innovation Commission in Long Beach, California, has formalized its request for a police facial recognition ban. The Commission has been…
US Mulls More Severe Sanctions Against Chinese Biometric Surveillance Company
US authorities are considering adding China-based biometric surveillance specialist Hikvision to a more severe blacklist, according to a Financial Times…
China Outpaces the West in Surveillance Research, Report Suggests
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) has published a new study that suggests that China is disproportionately invested in surveillance…
DeepGlint is Latest Chinese Facial Recognition Firm Added to US Blacklist
Another Chinese facial recognition company has been added to a US government blacklist over its alleged involvement in human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang…
Investor Group Calls For Rigorous Due Diligence Policies On Facial Recognition
A group of 50 institutional investors with $4.5 trillion in assets under management (as of December of 2020) is calling for more rigorous human rights and due…
Alibaba Disavows (but Acknowledges) Facial Recognition Platform with Ethnicity Tag
Alibaba is trying to distance itself from its own Alibaba Cloud division, and in particular from a controversial facial recognition program that is able to…
Human Rights Watch Calls for Suspension of Buenos Aires Biometric Surveillance System
Human Rights Watch has sent an open letter to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the Mayor of Buenos Aires, to express concern about a new facial recognition system…
IBM Urges Commerce Dept. to Restrict Sale of Facial Recognition to Repressive Regimes
IBM has come out in favor of restricting the export of facial recognition technologies to oppressive regimes. As Reuters reports, IBM’s statement is in…