Facial recognition controversies draw increasing attention
Controversy continues to swirl around biometric facial recognition, with U.S. House Committee hearings, legal challenges, and new revelations about who…
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Chief Bias Officer position may be necessary to combat algorithmic bias
While many companies continue to debate how to shape their executive teams in response to increasing digitization, and whether they…
Report questions ethics of image collection for AI facial biometric training datasets
Facial images used in datasets to train AI systems such as facial recognition are often collected without permission from the…
U.S. House subcommittee to discuss diversity and bias in tech industry
Diversity in the tech industry – or the relative lack of it – is being discussed in a hearing by…
Researcher says facial recognition models perpetuate discrimination against trans people
Facial recognition research papers follow a model of gender which is binary more than 90 percent of the time, immutable…
IBM launches public data set to further research into diversity and facial biometrics
IBM has announced the launch of a new data set specifically created to further research into, and ultimately the development…
Amazon finds zero false positives in Rekognition testing and takes issue with bias report
Accusations that Amazon provides inaccurate facial biometric technology and lacks appropriate concern over the ethical and social concerns about facial…
ACM to host conference on algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will host a conference on fairness, accountability and transparency in algorithmic systems from January…
Algorithmic Justice League calls on facial recognition companies to pledge ethics
The Algorithmic Justice League has launched a campaign calling for facial recognition software companies to pledge to a standard of…
EFF calls for independent oversight and privacy protection in facial recognition report
U.S. law enforcement agencies are implementing facial recognition with little in the way of oversight or privacy protections, which could…
