Amazon adds controversial AI facial recognition to Ring

Amazon Ring's new facial recognition feature sparks privacy controversy as Electronic Frontier Foundation critics argue the ...
TechCrunch

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells

Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, ...
Forbes

A Step Towards Pervasive Facial Recognition

This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Axon bodycameras are used ...
Reuters

British police to ramp up facial recognition to catch criminals

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Use of facial recognition technology will be expanded across Britain's police forces to help track down criminals, the government said on Thursday, as it proposed a new body ...
AOL

Facial recognition could be used more widely by police under plans

Facial recognition technology could be used by all UK police forces in more situations under plan announced by the Home Office. It hopes a 10-week public consultation will also pave the way for the ...
AOL

Facial recognition to be expanded across the country in fresh crime crackdown

Ministers have pledged to expand police use of facial recognition in a bid to track down dangerous criminals and are asking people how it should be used to form new laws. Officials hope that police ...
The Nation

Can We Opt Out of Facial Recognition Technology?

I traveled through airports and reported in sports stadiums this year. At each, I was asked to scan my face for security. An AI security camera demo at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the fall, my ...
WBEZ

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

The Trump administration has wiped a facial recognition policy from its website while further embracing the controversial technology and securing a $9 million contract with a company barred from ...
Chicago Sun-Times

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

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Nextgov

CBP expands facial recognition for non-citizens at borders

U.S. citizens can opt out of the facial recognition process, which CBP intends to expand to all air, sea and land ports. Customs and Border Protection is now authorized to require biometrics from all ...
IEEE

Face recognition using PCA-based method

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to develop the image processing and recognize the faces using PCA-based face recognition technique. MATLAB based programs are implemented to identify the faces ...