“The FRVT does that by leaning on the federal contracting process, but for anyone outside of that world (Amazon, Apple, Google, etc.), it’s still basically the wild west. But unlike a lot of issues in the tech industry, this is really not a hard problem to solve.”
“Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read: Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system
“Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read: Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system
“Facial recognition technology is known to struggle to recognize black faces. The underlying reason for this shortcoming runs deeper than you might expect, according to researchers at MIT.”
Read: Most engineers are white — and so are the faces they use to train software
“An adult webcam site claims to be the first ever to use facial recognition technology to help users find “sex doppelgängers” of people they know. Individuals can upload photographs of anyone’s face — it could be a stranger, a celebrity, or an acquaintance — and MegaCams.”
Read: Cam girl site uses facial recognition to match users’ photographs to performers
“The FBI has quietly constructed a massive facial recognition system, and according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, it may not have built in the required safeguards.”
Read: The FBI has collected over 411 million photos for its facial recognition system
“Fifteen years ago, 100,000 football fans streamed into the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa for Super Bowl XXXV.”
Read: That Time the Super Bowl Secretly Used Facial Recognition Software on Fans