Amazon heads off facial recognition rebellion By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor. 22 May 2019. BBC Shareholders seeking to halt Amazon’s sale of its facial recognition technology to US police forces have been defeated in two votes that sought to pressure the company into a rethink. Civil rights […]
Use of facial recognition tech ‘dangerously irresponsible’ in the UK By Geoff White BBC Click 13 May 2019 Black and minority ethnic people could be falsely identified and face questioning because police have failed to test how well their systems deal with non-white faces, say campaigners. At least […]
Warning: Widespread Facial Surveillance Is An “Imminent Reality” May 27, 2019 by IWB The dystopian future George Orwell warned us all about in his iconic novel, 1984 has quickly become our reality. Widespread facial surveillance in the “land of the free” is an “imminent reality.” A tech privacy report, that has been swept under the rug […]
