Amnesty International Calls for Ban on Police Use of Facial Recognition
International NGO Amnesty International is the latest organization to call for a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies.…
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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…
Washington County Council Approves Facial Recognition Restrictions
The most populous county in Washington state has voted unanimously to restrict the use of facial recognition technology by all local government agencies, with…
AnyVision Calls On NIST to Draft Ethical Guidelines for Facial Recognition
AnyVision is calling on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to draft guidelines for the responsible use of facial recognition technology.…
Shareholders Call for Investigation into Amazon’s Rekognition System
A group of activist investors is trying to hold Amazon to account for some of the problems with its Rekognition facial recognition system. To that end, the…
Momentum Builds for Facial Recognition Laws in the United States
US privacy advocates believe that there is growing momentum for facial recognition legislation at the federal level. They note that several bills have already…
Amazon Still Refuses to Sell Facial Recognition to Law Enforcement
Amazon is doubling down on its decision to stop selling its Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. The company halted Rekognition…
USC Researchers Warn About Racial Bias in Deepfake Detection Systems
A team of researchers at the University of Southern California has released a report that suggests that deepfake detection systems have many of the same biases…
Facebook Looks to Reduce Algorithmic Bias With New Video Dataset
A team of Facebook AI researchers has released a new Casual Conversations dataset that was put together to reduce bias in face and voice recognition systems.…
ON-DEMAND: Redefining Biometrics for the Next Decade of Digital Work and Life
Why society’s success depends on biometrics coming of age in the 2020s Today, biometrics technology has achieved mainstream acceptance. In the wake of the…