Brazilian subway operator pushing facial recognition despite sustained protests
Use of facial recognition systems in the subways of São Paulo, Brazil, are being challenged by civil rights organizations and…
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New Google photo software designed to see more skin tones
Less than a year after Alphabet said it was working on a better way to accurately photograph dark skin, it…
Irish municipality fined for GDPR non-compliant cameras, Finland devises centralized system
Data protection agencies in Europe are finding fault with surveillance projects and networks that violate national and GDPR regulations, but…
3D emotion recognition hardware gets better, but the software might still be iffy
A South Korean research team is boasting a 3D emotion-recognition innovation. It claims to have married a tiny, specialized camera…
Apple patents screen with face detection to play viewers different videos
A patent has been awarded to Apple for a lenticular screen which could show up to eight different videos at…
BitCenter UK facial recognition app puts CCTV capability on mobile phones
BitCenter UK has developed a facial recognition mobile app, FarFaces, that it says provides the capabilities of a biometric CCTV…
Paravision launches Android facial recognition SDK for custom app development
Paravision is launching a complete facial recognition software development kit (SDK) for Android to enable the fast development of mobile applications…
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…
Algorithmic schmutz hurts detection of male face more than female
A research paper looking at how well the three best-known biometric face detection algorithms are likely to work outside the…
Facebook disables feature after algorithm racism incident
Facebook has apologized and disabled an artificial intelligence algorithm said to be at the origin of a popped-up message labelling…
