Once little-known data-analysis office in DHS gets heat about facial recognition
Facial recognition was part of the text and subtext of a U.S. Senate intelligence committee hearing last week. The hearing…
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Biometrics governance is a nice-to-have for some police
Following the lead of law enforcement agencies fed up with tiresome lectures about thinking before shooting, some police brass have…
It sounds like the US has Hikvision’s attention
In a surprising move, a Chinese maker of video and biometric surveillance systems and under sanction by the U.S. government…
What’s the difference between managing staff and making AI better? Surprisingly little
Who would have guessed that the three biggest problems when it comes to workforces are also primary and continuous headaches…
We might be able to make AI ethical, but maybe we shouldn’t
What if questions about whether AI can be moral are missing the point? A pair of recent thought experiments about…
Partial success in transparency lawsuit into EU’s AI lie detector research
Member of the European Parliament and civil liberties campaigner Patrick Breyer has achieved a partial success in his legal dispute…
Megvii, CloudWalk, Yitu to join SenseTime on US investment blacklist
U.S. investors are to be barred from investing in eight more Chinese firms alleged to be involved in abuses in…
Academics, Oosto propose facial recognition, AI ethics guidance in new forum
A group of artificial intelligence ethicists and stakeholders took a step towards establishing a forum to advance AI guidelines and…
No live facial recognition for New Zealand Police in self-regulation pledge
An independent review of the opportunities and risks associated with facial recognition commissioned by New Zealand Police has made a…
US to blacklist SenseTime in time for Hong Kong IPO
The U.S. Treasury is to place Chinese artificial intelligence and biometrics firm SenseTime on the “Chinese military-industrial complex companies” blacklist…
