Facial Recognition
Facebook won’t let some users turn off face tracking
Facebook seems to always be in the middle of a privacy scandal.
Facebook caught sharing user data with phone carriers, showing ads based on creditworthiness
Facebook may not be serious about protecting user privacy after all.
Police are using celeb photos to fuel their facial recognition technology
Facial recognition tech is growing more invasive by the day.
UK Police facial recognition technology only works 4% of the time
Police even scored a 100% misidentification rate in two separate instances.
The Algorithmic Accountability Act will give tech companies the seemingly impossible task of assessing bias in algorithms
A purely legislative initiative is never going to be enough – strong engagement with the tech industry and the people involved is necessary for the measures to work efficiently.
The Washington State privacy bill has failed as Microsoft and Amazon couldn’t agree
The bill will be put forward again in 2020.
Microsoft says it refuses to sell face recognition tech to law enforcement
Apparently, Californian police wanted to run a face scan whenever they pull someone over.
Microsoft is accused of helping China develop sinister AI tech
Some experts were concerned with the idea of giving one of the most oppressive governments a tool capable of finding opposition.
Screening Surveillance have unveiled three short films, showing the dark side of surveillance
The short films tackle independent everyday issues that affect a lot of people around the world.
Google closes its AI ethics council after facing pressure from employees to remove conservative member
After the council was formed, employees immediately petitioned Google to remove conservative and Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James.
Some Google workers want Google to remove conservative Kay Coles James from an artificial intelligence ethics panel
They suggest that if James continues to be on the panel discrimination against marginalized groups will be implanted into the company’s artificial intelligence software.
The US government is using images of citizens without their consent, including dead people and exploited minors, to test facial recognition tech
People are being captured at their most vulnerable positions and their images are being used without knowledge or consent.