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Two more parents have joined the NYCLU’s lawsuit against the New York State Education Department and the Lockport City School District. The plaintiffs are hoping to prevent the Lockport School District from using an AEGIS facial recognition system in its facilities. As the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal reports, the new parties are Steven Allore and […]
The Guelph Police Service in Ontario has confirmed that it trialed Clearview’s controversial facial recognition program. The news comes through a Freedom of Information request, which uncovered a letter that was sent from the Service’s legal counsel to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) on March 13. The letter was sent after the […]
Social media giant Facebook has brought forth an adjusted settlement claim to a U.S. District Court for a lawsuit filed against it earlier this year for violations under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The latest $650 million amount being presented by Facebook represents a $100 million increase over the previous settlement that was […]
Embattled and controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is the subject of a new investigation from privacy watchdogs in Australia and the U.K. over its use of biometric data scraped from images off the internet and then sold to private entities around the world. The new joint investigation was launched on Thursday, and comes from […]
Clearview AI is no longer available in Canada. The controversial facial recognition provider has terminated all of its contracts in the country after drawing the attention of multiple privacy watchdogs at the federal and provincial levels. This is not the first time that Clearview has abandoned a territory in response to legal pressure. The company […]
ID4Africa is calling attention to a recent Identification for Development (ID4D) report that examines the relative quality of the privacy features in digital ID programs in Austria, India, and Estonia. The report specifically stresses the importance of privacy by design, noting that privacy should be built into an ID program at the earliest stages of […]
Amnesty International has added its voice to the chorus calling for a ban on the police use of facial recognition. The organization specifically objected to the use of the technology for mass surveillance as nationwide protests continue in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. “Black people throughout our communities already experience disproportionate […]
Google is planning to contest a class action lawsuit that alleges that the company violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in Illinois. The lawsuit was filed in February, and specifically concerns a facial recognition database that was created after extracting facial templates from photos on the company’s platform. BIPA prevents companies from obtaining and […]
Edward Santow is asking Australian lawmakers to pass more stringent facial recognition regulations. Santow is the country’s Human Rights Commissioner, and argued that law enforcement agencies should not be allowed to use facial recognition until there are meaningful legislative guidelines to prevent the abuse of the technology. The statements are at least partially a response […]
“…PimEyes currently has only 6,000 users signed up, with 350 enrolled in a premium version of the service.” Despite a small user base, a web-based facial recognition service is coming under scrutiny over its potential misuse. The service, PimEyes, allows users to upload an image featuring an individual’s face, and then have it search the […]
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