The United Nations published a report on Friday that said Iran is using drones, facial recognition technology, and a snitching app for smartphones to enforce its mandatory head covering law for women.
City officials in St. Petersburg, Russia, announced on Thursday that the city’s closed-circuit TV (CCTV) surveillance cameras will be upgraded with “ethnic recognition software” to “prevent social tension” by monitoring “the formation of ethnic enclaves.”
Declaring “far-right hatred” the immediate challenge, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced a rollout of facial recognition technology.
A bipartisan group of 14 senators is calling on their leaders to restrict TSA’s use of facial recognition technology over privacy concerns.
Google has reportedly launched a new data collection project, hiring a contractor to gather facial recognition data from children, offering $50 to parents for their child’s participation.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is rolling out facial recognition technology on some of its university campuses, per reports.
The Philadelphia Philles is set to be the next Major League Baseball team to implement a facial recognition program
The Detroit Police Department (DPD) has come under scrutiny after wrongfully arresting an innocent woman eight months into her pregnancy because of a flawed facial recognition match. The AI-driven technology mistakenly pointed to the heavily pregnant woman for a robbery and carjacking case, charges made absurd by her physical condition at the time of the crime.
British government officials reportedly drew up plans to pressure privacy regulators to allow businesses to use facial recognition cameras.
More than 100 singers and entertainers have signed a pledge to boycott arenas that use face-scanning technology on audiences.
The General Services Administration (GSA), the agency tasked with the highly sensitive task of overseeing access to many of the federal government’s digital services, failed to implement a new system of secure logins for government officials, breaching federal security guidelines in the process — because its officials were concerned about “discrimination.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is warning against the rise of facial recognition used by the TSA at American airports, comparing it to systems used by Russia and China to track their citizens, amid growing scrutiny of the Biden Administration’s expansion of the technology.
A lawyer that is the mother of a Girl Scout was recently targeted by facial recognition tech and removed from an event at Radio City Music Hall due to Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s ongoing legal issues with her law firm — even though she personally has nothing to do with the litigation. One lawyer commented, “The fact they’re using facial recognition to do this is frightening. It’s un-American to do this.”
Mohammad Saleh Hashemi Golpayegani, head of Iran’s “Headquarters for Promoting Virtues and Preventing Vice,” announced his agency wants to connect facial-recognition computer systems to its extensive network of surveillance cameras to aid in a crackdown on women who defy orders to keep their faces covered in public.
Australia’s second-largest home appliance chain, The Good Guys, announced on Tuesday plans to temporarily pause a trial of facial recognition software it recently piloted in some stores after a consumer group submitted a formal complaint to Australia’s privacy regulator over the trial, citing privacy concerns, Reuters reported.
The IRS said it will no longer use face-recognition technology for taxpayers who are interacting with the agency online.
The IRS will begin requiring taxpayers to use facial recognition to check their account online or get a transcript online.
Japan’s federal government is allegedly planning to limit exports of artificial intelligence (A.I.)-powered facial recognition software to China to prevent Beijing from using such technology to “surveil and persecute” ethnic minorities in China, particularly in its westernmost region of Xinjiang, the online newspaper Taiwan News reported on Monday.
Bucheon, South Korea, will begin using an artificial intelligence (AI)-based facial recognition software in January designed to cull images from CCTV cameras and locate, track, and contact trace Chinese coronavirus patients, Reuters reported Monday.
Instagram has reportedly begun asking some users to send in video selfies of their face from multiple angles in order to verify that they are a real person. The move comes just weeks after parent company Facebook (now known as Meta) promised to stop using facial recognition technology.
Tech giant Facebook, which has changed its name to “Meta,” recently claimed that it plans to shut down its facial recognition system this month and delete all of the face scan data of over one billion users it has collected from users for over a decade.
Russian state media reported on Tuesday that dozens of Russian schools have deployed advanced biometric security systems, including facial and silhouette recognition technology, to prevent people “wanted by the authorities or potentially dangerous” from entering school grounds.
Facial recognition payment systems have been implemented in British schools under the guise of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The UK will implement a facial recognition system for public services after already introducing the technology for its vaccine passport app.
Australia’s Curtin University on Wednesday requested the retraction of a 2018 research study, partly funded by the Chinese government and conducted by a former Curtin faculty member, that helped the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) refine the facial-recognition software it employs to keep the oppressed Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province under surveillance.
Britain is facing a “dystopian” future in which facial recognition is used to turn public spaces into “open-air prisons” say campaigners.
A new feature released alongside the latest Android 12 mobile operating system beta tracks facial expressions, which the Masters of the Universe claim can be used to control smartphones.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have installed camera systems in police stations across China’s westernmost territory, Xinjiang, that allegedly use artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition software to detect people’s emotional states, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
Federal authorities reportedly arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot after using facial recognition programs to find an image of the suspect on his girlfriend’s Instagram page. The arrest represents the first time that facial recognition was used to identify a suspect from the Capitol riot rather than to confirm the identity of an existing suspect.
Tech firms funded by the British government are developing facial recognition systems that could be used by private businesses, such as pubs, as coronavirus vaccine passports.
Walt Disney World announced a one-month test of facial recognition technology for use in guest tracking at the Magic Kingdom on Tuesday.
Russia’s largest food retailer, X5, announced on Wednesday the official launch of a “pay with a glance” biometric self-checkout service that will be installed in up to 3,000 X5 supermarkets and convenience stores across Russia by the end of 2021.
A group of hackers has reportedly breached a huge collection of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada, gaining access to live streams of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, police departments, prisons, schools, and companies including Tesla.
A federal judge has given final approval to a $650 million settlement for a class action lawsuit against Facebook which alleged that the Masters of the Universe stored biometric data in violation of Illinois state law.
A recent report from BuzzFeed News alleges that social media giant Facebook is considering building facial recognition technology into its upcoming smart glasses product.
Nearly half of Britons are in favour of surveillance on people’s phones to enforce lockdown measures during a pandemic, a poll has found.
Clearview AI, a facial-recognition app law enforcement uses to track down criminals, has seen a surge in use since the Capitol Hill riots on Wednesday, according to the company’s CEO.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) recently signed legislation that will pause the use of facial recognition technology at K-12 schools in the state for two years.
A lawsuit filed against Facebook in California this week claims that the company’s Instagram platform is unlawfully harvesting biometric data from its users. The lawsuit claims that Instagram is intentionally stealing facial recognition data from more than 100 million users without their consent.
More than 1,000 tech professionals have published a public letter criticizing a forthcoming paper which describes the development of a facial-recognition system that claims that it can predict if someone is likely to commit a crime.
