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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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Panasonic announced that it developed a new image recognition AI that has a new "classification algorithm" that is more accurate than conventional methods. [Read More] petapixel.com »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Facebook has announced that it is shuttering its Face Recognition system as part of what it is billing as a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in its products. Facebook Face Recognition is a system that is used to analyze the photos and videos that the company thinks a user is in […] petapixel.com »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The Panasonic S5 includes important upgrades to its autofocus system, but how much do those improvements extend to video? We put it to the test, shooting side-by-side against the S1H, to find out. dpreview.com »
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 »
Facebook will no longer scan uploaded images for users’ faces by default, according to The Verge. The change will apply to new users who receive the Face Recognition setting as Facebook rolls it out globally over the next several weeks. dpreview.com »
While companies and researchers around the world work to build the most advanced and powerful AI systems, Facebook has a special treasure trove that most don’t: billions of tagged photos thanks to Instagram. petapixel.com »
At its F8 developers conference Facebook not only revealed a number of new Instagram features, the company also talked about how it is using the billions of images on Instagram to train the world's most accurate image recognition systems. dpreview.com »
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 »
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 »