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The Russian government has been using a network of 100,000 facial recognition cameras to keep track of individuals that have been ordered to quarantine for 14 days. The cameras are a part of a network that has been the subject of much public outcry and concern, with fears they were being used to suppress criticism […]
A provision to the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD) expanding its scope to include the protection of biometric data went into effect on March 21. The SHIELD Act, which was signed into law last July, mandates that businesses and organizations protect the private information of New York state’s residents by implementing […]
Facebook was testing out an Augmented Reality app that would let users identify where people at whom they pointed their phone were ‘friends’ with them on the social media platform, and Vice‘s Joseph Cox has now managed to get a close-up look at the system. Developed between 2015 and 2016 but never released to the […]
The Surveillance Camera Commissioner (SCC) has joined forces with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to release updated privacy guidelines for the use of surveillance cameras in the United Kingdom. The guidelines specifically concern the data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) that organizations are expected to perform when operating a surveillance camera in a public place. The […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is trying to make Americans more aware of the encroaching reach of facial recognition, inviting people to take a quiz to find out which state and federal agencies have access to their biometric data. The Who Has Your Face quiz is the result of a collaboration between EFF and the […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling attention to potential ethical violations related to the NIST’s Tattoo Recognition Challenge. The NIST issued the Tatt-C challenge in 2014 in an effort to spur the development of automatic tattoo recognition tools, giving interested parties access to an “open tattoo database” that contained more than 15,000 images. […]
A group of London artists known as the Dazzle Club are using makeup to protest the Metropolitan Police’s rapidly expanding face-based surveillance program. To that end, the group has been going on monthly walks through the city while wearing makeup that is designed to hide their faces from the city’s facial recognition cameras. The makeup […]
The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office have banned the use of Clearview AI within their offices. However, both organizations admitted that they did not do so until after they had taken advantage of the free trials that Clearview offered to law enforcement agencies and other parties. The […]
The New York Police Department has officially announced its facial recognition policy, laying out guidelines to which its officers must adhere. In a statement, the NYPD emphasized that facial recognition technology is just one tool – albeit a useful one – in its police investigations, and not a determining agent in itself. “The NYPD has […]
Law enforcement officers in India have used facial recognition to arrest more than 1,100 people in what may be one of the more sweeping applications of biometric state surveillance. The arrests were made following two days of rioting in New Delhi on February 25-26. Indian home minister Amit Shah has since admitted that Indian […]
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