facial recognition

On this Digital Trends Live, we discuss the top tech stories, including Microsoft announcing that it won’t sell facial recognition software to the police.

Microsoft announced it would not sell its facial recognition surveillance software to law enforcement, joining other tech companies like IBM and Amazon.

Amazon said Wednesday that it will temporarily halt police use of its facial recognition technology. Activists have pushed Congress to regulate the technology.

In a letter to Congress, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said IBM is exiting the facial recognition business and called for new reforms to combat racial injustice.

CV Dazzle makeup's creator said it won’t trick today’s sophisticated facial recognition algorithms. Experts said there are other steps protesters can take.

Facial recognition algorithms are notoriously bad at identifying non-white and non-male people. But the tech may still be used today as protests roil the U.S.

The EFF wants to use this quiz to make people aware that it is nearly impossible to know which government agencies are sharing your photos, and with whom. 

Microsoft is divesting its shares in AnyVision, an Israeli facial-recognition company alleged to be contributing to mass surveillance in the West Bank.

ICE is using facial recognition software to target undocumented immigrants in Maryland by conducting unauthorized searches of state-issued driver's licenses.

An intruder was recently able to gain unauthorized access to Clearview AI's full customer list, which is comprised of various law enforcement agencies.

Several privacy authorities in Canada have announced they have launched an investigation into the use of the controversial Clearview facial recognition app.

UCLA was going to be the first university in the U.S. to use facial recognition on its campus, but after backlash, the school has decided against it. 

A congressional committee wrote a letter to Ring over concerns about the company's partnerships with more than 400 local police departments across the country.

Tricking facial recognition can be as easy a putting on a latex mask, but Trinamix's 'live 'skin' sensing technology will make it harder to fool your phone.

When a San Francisco-based artist joked that she was making medical masks with people's face printed on them, she was surprised the internet really wanted them.

The Advanced Tactical Facial Recognition at a Distance Technology project started back in 2016. A working prototype of the tech was shown off late last year.

The Chinese government may now grant startup Megvii millions of yuan to develop facial-recognition technology that could be used on mask-wearers in a crowd.

No one can figure out if what Clearview AI is doing with people's personal data is legal, and experts say we need to do better regarding facial recognition.

Facebook has to pay Illinois members as part of a settlement. The company violated Illinois biometric privacy laws in its photo tagging using facial recognition.

Clearview AI is a facial-recognition app that is so powerful that it can tell you a person’s name and contact information from one stray picture. Advocates worry this kind of facial-recognition technology could be a boon to stalkers and people with a history of domestic abuse.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned about the dangers of unchecked A.I. and has said in an op-ed in the Financial Times that he believes that the area should be more tightly regulated, citing concerns such as the rise of deepfakes and potential abuses of facial recognition technology.

New facial recognition technology could be used to identify anyone, anywhere, and it's already in use by police in the U.S. A tiny company called Clearview developed the app that can use an existing photo of a person to search for other photos of them online, along with links to where those photos are hosted.