Alfi says no ethnicity recognition on Uber, Lyft tablets
Alfi will not use its face biometrics-based technology that classifies ethnicity to target advertisements to viewers out of respect for…
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UK panel sketches the reach of ethnicity recognition systems across China
The scale of systems behind China’s alleged persecution of minorities — chiefly Uyghurs — continue to beggar the imagination. The…
Ethnicity recognition found among Russian face biometrics providers’ features
A quartet of Russian biometrics providers have been found to have built ethnicity-recognition tools into facial recognition systems, like their…
Bosch considers dumping Dahua cameras after biometric ethnicity-warning revelations
Chinese companies making cameras for biometrics and public surveillance that have been implicated in human rights abuses could face a…
Investigation reveals Dahua biometric systems sent ethnicity warnings to Chinese police
Revelations about ethnicity-tracking biometric systems being developed by many of the biggest names among China-based artificial intelligence and facial recognition…
Huawei, Megvii, SenseTime patents describing biometric ethnicity detection, tracking revealed
Huawei and other China-based firms have attempted to protect technologies related to their ethnicity-tracking biometrics with patents, IPVM has discovered. The tech…
Huawei allegedly partnered on more biometric ethnicity-tracking systems
Reports have surfaced about Huawei’s partnerships with companies that further implicate the company in collaboration on discriminatory surveillance product development…
Huawei accused of using ethnicity-based biometrics to develop alert for Chinese authorities
In a development that might finally get U.S. biometrics firms to walk the corporate-responsibility talk when it comes to how…
Promise of knowledge distillation for debiasing biometric PAD discussed in EAB event
The innovative technique for training machine learning models known as ‘knowledge distillation’ is showing promise for mitigating bias in biometric…
SenseTime sources legal opinion suggesting limits to US sanctions ahead of planned IPO
American sanctions against SenseTime for supplying its biometric technology in support of rights abuses in Xinjiang only apply to one of…
