New Zealanders have a big plan for public facial recognition
A New Zealand nonprofit has published what might be the most detailed argument for regulation of face biometrics used by…
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US senators ask online proctor firms for evidence they are fighting biometrics bias
Allegations of bias in proctoring software will never be the motivating controversy that is bias in policing facial recognition software,…
China’s Big Brother camera network complete, computer vision growth to come from business
In news that will be hard for some to believe, China’s domestic government market for computer vision is saturated, according…
Startup wants to give biometric face scrapers digital dead ends to chase
A small shop of AI coders and photographers have a new use for their GAN-made portfolio of faces. The company…
Collaborative, less adversarial regulation can boost face biometrics: World Economic Forum
Regulating facial recognition might be the one idea that the World Economic Forum can suggest and offend none of its…
AI cannot help humanity if it cannot help an individual: UK report
Whatever the ultimate impact may be of a report by UK experts in algorithmic bias, the document already has succeeded…
Gartner to biometrics firms: Do better with facial recognition. Somehow
The facial recognition community continues to speak in circles when ethics is the topic. Notable business-to-business tech analyst Gartner is…
UN says nations need to ensure biometrics firms aren’t part of rights abuses
A UN committee on fighting racial discrimination has published a report detailing the role that facial recognition companies should play…
Deepfakes: The Times wows, the Senate punts and Asia worries
The New York Times this week did something dangerous for its reputation as the nation’s paper of record. Its staff…
For image recognition systems the world still looks like ‘Daddy Knows Best’ — research
A U.S.-European team of researchers say image recognition systems “mimic and even amplify real-world bias” involving men and women. The…
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