15 stories tagged facial-recognition, newest first.
437 points by ilamont | 256 comments
Guardian article reporting that a six-month live facial recognition trial at London stations cost £320,000, produced one false positive alert, and led to no arrests.
805 points by iamnothere | 288 comments
Essay by Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn, originally in Lawfare, arguing that post-9/11 mass surveillance has outgrown its justification and should end.
356 points by BlueBerry2001 | 438 comments
British Transport Police news release about expanding its live facial recognition trial into London Underground stations; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
579 points by audiodude | 295 comments
A short manifesto-style essay urging readers to refuse online age verification via government ID or face scans, framing it as surveillance.
434 points by whiteboardr | 89 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the FTC says OkCupid shared 3 million user photos with a facial recognition firm, and that OkCupid and Match settled without a fine.
379 points by ourmandave | 163 comments
CNN news article about a Tennessee woman, Angela Lipps, wrongly arrested via AI facial recognition for crimes in North Dakota, a state she says she never visited.
616 points by rectang | 316 comments
Grand Forks Herald news article on Angela Lipps, jailed nearly six months after Fargo police misidentified her via AI facial recognition in a bank fraud case.
1944 points by x01 | 1862 comments
The Verge news article reporting that Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access starting in March, with teen-appropriate defaults for all accounts.
427 points by nh43215rgb | 290 comments
404 Media article reporting that a DHS document says people cannot refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition mobile app.
748 points by dmitrygr | 284 comments
Slashdot story reporting that Microsoft OneDrive is testing AI face recognition on photos for preview users, with the setting only changeable three times a year.
364 points by mikece | 485 comments
PetaPixel article reporting that Home Depot faces a lawsuit alleging it secretly used facial recognition technology on self-checkout cameras.
378 points by amarcheschi | 524 comments
Sky News article reporting that ten live facial recognition vans will be deployed across police forces in England, with human rights groups criticising the technology.
342 points by perihelions | 207 comments
Texas Tribune article reporting that Meta will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit over using facial recognition on users' biometric data without consent.
422 points by Kon-Peki | 236 comments
Full enrolled text of Illinois HB3902, the Drones as First Responders Act, amending the Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act governing police drone use.
419 points by danso | 108 comments
New York Times article about police relying on Clearview AI facial recognition that led to the wrongful jailing of an innocent person.