face recognition
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U.S. Border Patrol Reportedly Eyes Face Recognition For Body Cams
U.S. Customs and Border Protection—one of the arms of the federal immigration machine shoving tens of thousands of people into de facto concentration camps—is eyeing equipping officers with facial recognition body cams, according to Reuters.
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Facebook: Guess We’ll Disclose The Whole Face Recognition Thing (Since We Have To)
Facebook says it’s giving the ax to one face-scanning tool and introducing a wider rollout for another — this time by giving users a heads up about it first.
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Face Recognition Surveillance Banned By Second American City
One day after the biggest police body camera manufacturer in America banned the use of face recognition technology, Somerville, Massachusetts became the second city in the United States to ban the tech after San Francisco broke new ground with a ban last month, Vice reported.
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We Don’t Need To ‘Pause’ Police Use Of Face Recognition — We Need To Ban It Forever
Facial recognition experts called to testify before a congressional hearing on Wednesday found themselves in broad agreement: Citing a litany of abuses, each pressed federal lawmakers to respond to the widespread, unregulated use of the technology by law enforcement at every level across the country. However, the idea that we should simply ban police from…