facerecognition

Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate

| | cameras, essays, facerecognition, identification, lawenforcement, laws, Privacy, smartphones, surveillance
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville ...
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Clearview AI and Facial Recognition

| | artificialintelligence, facerecognition, lawenforcement, police, Privacy, surveillance
The New York Times has a long story about Clearview AI, a small company that scrapes identified photos of people from pretty much everywhere, and then uses unstated magical AI technology to ...
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Cardiac Biometric

| | biometrics, facerecognition, falsenegatives, falsepositives, identification, Medicine
MIT Technology Review is reporting about an infrared laser device that can identify people by their unique cardiac signature at a distance: A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special ...
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Fooling Face Recognition with Infrared Light

| | academicpapers, biometrics, facerecognition, security bloggers network, spoofing
Yet another development in the arms race between facial recognition systems and facial-recognition-system foolers. BoingBoing post ...
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