Rights Groups Urge Police Scotland to Halt Live Facial Recognition Rollout
Fourteen rights and racial justice organizations have issued a joint statement calling on Police Scotland to abandon its planned implementation of live facial…
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Chicago Murder Trial Sparks Debate Over Reliability of Facial Recognition Evidence
Facial recognition technology is at the center of a high-profile murder trial in Chicago, where defense attorneys argue the identification method used against…
No Bias Found in New Zealand’s Biometric Identity Check System, Clearing Path for Wider use
New Zealand’s government has cleared the Identity Check facial recognition system of significant racial bias, following extensive testing that represents the…
Advocacy Groups Urge UK Home Secretary to Ban Biometric Surveillance
A coalition of civil society organizations has urged the UK Home Secretary to implement safeguards for AI systems in policing, advocating for a complete ban on…
Police to Secure British Grand Prix with FRT
Northamptonshire Police will use facial recognition technology at the British Grand Prix for the second year. The event is expected to draw about 480,000…
Police Circumvent FRT Bans by Asking Neighbors for Help
Police in major US cities have found a way to bypass bans on facial recognition technology by requesting help from neighboring towns with fewer restrictions.…
Proposed Bill Would Extend Colorado’s Facial Recognition Task Force
House Bill 1468, which aims to broaden the responsibilities and membership of the Colorado General Assembly’s task force on facial recognition and biometric…
NEC Proclaims ‘Perfect Match Rate’ in DHS Facial Recognition Testing
NEC Corporation of America is celebrating another strong performance on the part of its NeoFace facial recognition technology in the Department of Homeland…
Does LFR Have a Racial Bias? The UK’s National Physical Lab Weighs In
“Now, the NPL study on NEC’s technology offers further evidence that the racial bias problem can be ameliorated, and even eliminated.” After years of intense…
Meta’s Open Source AI Training Dataset Features 26,000 Videos
Meta has announced a new, open-source dataset for AI training that the company is hoping will reduce the kind of demographic bias that has been documented by…