Here you will find all the articles with the tag: facial recognition.
Sweden’s data protection (IMY) has fined the local police authority €250,000 (more than $300,000) for the unlawful use of Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition software. The use of the software is in breach of the country’s Criminal Data Act. As part of the enforcement, the poli... Read more
3 years ago
IBM-CEO Arvind Krishna announced today that the company will no longer sell facial recognition services. He also called for a "national dialogue" on whether facial recognition should be used at all. Krishna writes in a letter to the United States Congress that the company no longer wants to have... Read more
4 years ago
Clearview AI has stopped selling its AI technology to private companies, says Buzzfeed News. The controversial company made the decision because of several pending lawsuits. According to Buzzfeed News, Clearview will immediately close all accounts of users and companies that do not work for gov... Read more
4 years ago
The European Commission (EC) intends to drastically limit the use of facial recognition. The new rules should prevent EU citizens from being subject to ubiquitous surveillance with identity recognition. The Financial Times writes about the plans on the basis of sources, according to which EU citi... Read more
5 years ago
Amazon Web Services' (AWS) facial recognition software Recognition has been updated to recognize a person's fear. The facial analysis function is also more accurate and functionality has been improved. According to AWS itself, the software could already accurately recognize seven emotions. It's a... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft quietly removed a facial recognition database from the Internet this week, reports Silicon Angle. The database, MS Celeb, at some point contained 10 million images of about 100,000 people. That would make it the largest facial recognition database. The intention was that the database sho... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft has refused to share its facial recognition technology with the police in California, reports Reuters. Police in the state had asked the company to install facial recognition in police cars and body cameras. The reason for the rejection of the request was his concern for human rights. Mic... Read more
5 years ago
A group of over twenty artificial intelligence (AI) researchers within the tech and academic world has asked Amazon Web Services (AWS) to stop selling the facial recognition software Recognition to the police. Critics of police use of rekognition include Yoshua Bengio, who recently won the Turing Aw... Read more
5 years ago
IBM is said to have offered a database of nearly a million photos, without the consent of the people who took these photos. The photos were offered to train facial recognition technology. These were photos with clear faces on them. The photos were taken from Flickr and provided with comments to desc... Read more
5 years ago
NEC has started a collaboration with the large Taiwanese bank E.Sun to create ATMs that allow customers to withdraw money with facial recognition. That's what ZDNet reports. According to the two companies, this is the first time that face recognition has been used in such machines. The intention is ... Read more
5 years ago
