Tag: facial recognition

• Sci-fi surveillance: Europe’s secretive push into biometric technology

  December 10, 2020

  EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. €1.7bn from the programme over the past seven years backed the development of security products for… more ›

• From London to Lisbon to Toronto, mayors grapple with public backlash to tech in cities

  December 5, 2020

    For the mayor of any modern city, an increasingly large part of the job entails managing the public backlash to new technology being deployed in those cities. The COVID-19… more ›

• State of AI Report 2020

  October 4, 2020

  Now in its third year, the report features invited contributions from a range of well-known and up-and-coming companies and research groups. The Report considers the following key dimensions: Research: Technology breakthroughs… more ›

• EU companies selling surveillance tools to China’s human rights abusers

  September 29, 2020

  European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. Amnesty International found that three… more ›

• Research Reveals Inherent AI Gender Bias

  August 16, 2020

  Unless you’ve been living under a rock—an impossibly cozy, privileged, particle-filtering rock—2020 has probably opened your eyes to how far we still have to go to achieve a truly fair… more ›

• Gender Shades

  June 20, 2020

  How well do IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ AI services guess the gender of a face? Explore Results MIT Media Lab Press Kit https://gendershades.org/ more ›

• Facial recognition: how China cornered the surveillance market

  December 8, 2019

  Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business, innovation, trends and more. https://www.ft.com/content/6f1a8f48-1813-11ea-9ee4-11f260415385 more ›

• This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It

  September 22, 2019

  In just a few taps and clicks, the tool showed where a car had been seen throughout the U.S. A private investigator source had access to a powerful system used… more ›

• This colorful printed patch makes you pretty much invisible to AI

  April 23, 2019

  The rise of AI-powered surveillance is extremely worrying. The ability of governments to track and identify citizens en masse could spell an end to public anonymity. But as researchers have… more ›

• Camera Above the Classroom

  April 23, 2019

  BEIJING — Jason Todd first discovered his school’s secret on the internet. It was late September 2018, less than a month after high school had started. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003759/camera-above-the-classroom more ›