facial recognition technology
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Police Facial Recognition at Notting Hill Carnival
Every year there are rumblings from the Met Police and concerned politicians about the need to clamp down on Notting Hill Carnival. Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch responds to £7.5m Clearview AI fine by the ICO
“This important enforcement action by the ICO should be another nail in the coffin for facial recognition in the UK.” Continue reading
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Police drop Experian profiling tool following Big Brother Watch exposé
A year on from BigBrotherWatch’s investigation into Durham Police’s use of Experian’s ‘Mosaic’ big data profiling tool for AI custody decisions, BigBrotherWatch discovered through a long Freedom of Information battle that Durham Police heeded calls to drop the discriminatory tool less than three weeks after their exposé. Continue reading
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Massive photo databases secretly gathered in US and Europe to develop facial recognition By Kevin Reed
A report in the New York Times on Sunday revealed that millions of facial photos have been scraped from online sources and taken by hidden surveillance cameras and then shared in databases for artificial intelligence (AI) research and development purposes for more than a decade. Created in secret by universities and tech companies, the photo data… Continue reading
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Facial recognition technology and the US military-intelligence apparatus By Kevin Reed
On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee unanimously approved a resolution banning the use of facial recognition (FR) technology by the city, including by the police department. A full vote of the city council on the resolution is planned for July 16. Continue reading
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