Meta Tests Facial Recognition Tech to Fight Deepfake Celebrity Ads
Meta will use facial recognition technology to fight the rise of deepfake celebrity ads and help social media users recover their accounts. [Read More] petapixel.com »
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Ammunition Vending Machines Use AI Facial Scanning to Dispense Bullets
Americans can now purchase bullets during their routine grocery store trips thanks to AI-powered, facial scanning-equipped, ammunition vending machines popping up in multiple states in the southern United States. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-7-9 19:43
Police Are Getting Around Legally Banned Facial Recognition
Police officers have been quietly finding ways to keep using facial recognition in U.S. cities that have banned the controversial technology, according to a recent report. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-5-22 20:35
Israel’s Vast Facial Recognition Program in Gaza Exposed
Israel intelligence officials are reportedly using cameras with facial recognition technology to surveil Palestinians and identify suspected militants. However, while the technology was initially used to search for kidnapped Israelis in Gaza, it is reportedly now being used, to mixed results, to flag members of Hamas. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-4-3 22:23
Grandfather Sues Sunglass Hut After Facial Recognition Led to False Arrest
A 61-year-old grandfather is suing Macy's and Sunglass Hut over the stores' alleged use of facial recognition technology led to his wrongful arrest, imprisonment, and sexual assault in jail. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-1-31 17:57
ACLU Supports Man Wrongfully Arrested Based on Poor Facial Recognition
The national and New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in support of a man who was reportedly wrongfully arrested after facial recognition misidentified him. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-1-30 00:35
Rite Aid Banned From Facial Recognition Tech After ‘Reckless’ Use
Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition technology for five years -- after its "reckless" use harmed and harassed customers. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-12-29 18:42
UK May Require Photo IDs or Facial Age-Check Scans to View Porn
The UK's Office of Communications -- otherwise known as Ofcom -- has published a draft of age-restriction guidelines for websites and online services that offer sexually explicit content. petapixel.com »
2023-12-6 23:23
Man is Wrongfully Jailed For A Week Due To Facial Recognition Technology
A man has filed a lawsuit after being wrongfully charged with theft based on faulty facial recognition technology. He spent nearly a week in jail before the charges were dropped. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-9-26 20:11
FBI Tested ‘Truly Unconstrained’ Facial Recognition Software on Americans
New documents reveal that the FBI has been testing artificially intelligent (AI) facial recognition software on Americans for almost a decade. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-3-9 18:38
ACDSee Photo Studio Mac 9 Adds Facial Recognition Photo Organization
ACDSee has released Photo Studio Mac 9, what it calls both a fully-featured Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool as well as a non-destructive editor. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-11-12 19:17
Texas AG Sues Google for Collecting Facial Data from Photos
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the Silicon Valley tech giant unlawfully captured and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining their consent. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-10-22 19:09
Instagram is Testing Age Verification Through Facial Scanning
Instagram has announced that it is testing three new ways to verify the ages of its users in the United States, including a partnership with Yoti that estimates age based on a facial scan. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-6-23 19:58
Google Pays $100 Million in Facial Recognition Class Action Lawsuit
Google has agreed to pay $100 million in a settlement of a class action lawsuit in Illinois. Residents of the state are able to claim money from the suit if they appeared on Google Photos between 2015 and 2022. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-6-7 19:44
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is shutting down its Face Recognition system amid privacy concerns
Shortly following its rebranding as Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook has also announced that it is shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook. Users who have opted into the system will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos, and Meta will delete more than a billion people's facial recognition templates, per the company's update. dpreview.com »
2021-11-4 18:06
Facial Recognition Misidentifies Black Teen, Ignites Debate Over its Ethics
A Detroit-area skating rink is under fire for barring entry to a Black teenager after its facial recognition cameras misidentified her as a woman who was banned from the property. It has further ignited debate on the ethics of using facial recognition technology in the United States. 14-year old Lamya Robinson was barred from entering […] petapixel.com »
2021-7-16 19:45
Why the Police Have No Business Using Facial Recognition Tech
Last week The Verge reported on an incident involving a man from Detroit who was wrongly arrested for shoplifting back in 2019. The article said that the Detroit police department had used facial recognition technology to help catch the "offender. thephoblographer.com »
2021-5-1 01:00
Is Facial Manipulation Detection Software an Attack on Free Speech?
First of all, Photoshop isn't at all a bad piece of software. It has been the foundation of photo editing for such a long time. And if used well, it can help creators blend imagery and imagination, making some interesting work in the process. thephoblographer.com »
2021-4-16 07:00
Paravision AI ordered to delete face recognition software derived from user pictures without permission
Face recognition developer Paravision AI has been ordered to delete masses of user data it held and used illegally to create face recognition applications from the images stored on its former cloud storage service Ever. dpreview.com »
2021-1-20 21:47
Intel is Repositioning its Depth-Sensing Camera into Facial Recognition
Intel has officially launched RealSense ID, a facial recognition camera module that is built on its RealSense depth-sensing technology. Originally designed for touch-free interactions, Intel looks like it is going all-in on facial ID instead. petapixel.com »
2021-1-9 22:08
Google and UC Berkeley researchers create AI that can remove shadows from images
Researchers with the University of California Berkeley and Google Research have published a new paper detailing an AI that can remove unwanted shadows from images. The algorithm focuses on two different types of shadows -- ones from external objects and ones naturally resulting from facial features -- and works to either remove or soften them in order to maintain a natural appearance. dpreview.com »
2020-8-26 17:40
This ‘Cloaking’ Algorithm Breaks Facial Recognition by Making Tiny Edits
A team of researchers at the University of Chicago have developed an algorithm that makes tiny, imperceptible edits to your images in order to mask you from facial recognition technology. Their invention is called Fawkes, and anybody can use it on their own images for free. petapixel.com »
2020-8-11 01:32
Report: Google looking to stop smartphone manufacturers from adding built-in 'beauty' modes
According to a report from XDA Developers, Google might be making changes to its Camera API in Android 11 that will prevent them from using algorithms to smooth skin, change skin color or alter the facial geometry of subjects. dpreview.com »
2020-7-21 23:58
Android 11 Will Ban Smartphones from ‘Altering Facial Appearance’ in Camera
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the world of smartphone photography. Google is proposing a significant change to the Camera API in Android 11 that will prevent smartphones from using face altering algorithms that change geometry, skin tone, or apply smoothing. petapixel.com »
2020-7-18 20:59
26-Year-Old Born With Extremely Rare Facial Defect Is Breaking Beauty Standards With Her Modeling Career
"Remind the world that everyone is beautiful. " These are the words of Ilka Brühl - a 26-year-old woman from Germany, who took it upon herself to spread positivity and empowerment by telling her own story. boredpanda.com »
2018-5-2 12:17
Facial Recognition Finds Link Between Photos, Reunites Missing Child With Family
Last year, an AI technology called FindFace garnered a lot of attention after it was found to trace the faces of pedestrians back to their online social accounts. Now, one year on, Baidu’s own facial recognition technology has miraculously been able to reunite a Chinese family after 27 years apart. digitalrev.com »
2017-4-18 03:00
Russian Photographer Uses Facial Recognition To Find People He Snaps On Subway, And The Results Are Scary
In order to show how easy it is for complete strangers to gather information about you, Egor Tsvetkov spent six weeks taking around 100 pictures of subway commuters in St Petersburg before using a facial recognition app called FindFace to track down their internet profiles. boredpanda.com »
2016-12-13 12:59