facial recognition system
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In the Future, Amazon’s Ring Doorbell Might Use Biometric Data to Surveil Neighbourhoods
I’ve always wondered when smell-o-vision would make its debut in the gadget world, but I didn’t imagine that Amazon would be the company to make it happen. Given that fact, you might not be surprised to learn that its actual implementation sounds a little problematic, to say the least.
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You Can Now Pay for Ride Fares in the Moscow Subway With Your Face
Contactless payment systems are quickly becoming an ordinary part of our daily lives. As of this week, you can even pay for subway fares with your face. Before you ask where you can sign up, this new facial recognition payment system has debuted in Russia, sparking concerns that it will be used by authorities as…
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Clearview AI Says It Can Do the ‘Computer Enhance’ Thing
Sketchy face recognition company Clearview AI has inflated its stockpile of scraped images to over 10 billion, according to its co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That. What’s more, he says the company has new tricks up its sleeve, like using AI to draw in the details of blurry or partial images of faces.
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25 U.S. States Are Forcing Face Recognition on People Filing for Unemployment
We acclimatize to dangerous tech creep in a series of fuck-it moments until the point at which we realise a foreseeably bad network is so pervasive, we reluctantly adopt it and move on. There was a time when social media, Amazon shopping, and home surveillance seemed optional — until they weren’t. Now in many states,…