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We Built an ‘Unbelievable’ (but Legal) Facial Recognition Machine
"“The future of human flourishing depends upon facial recognition technology being banned,” wrote Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science…
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ACLU Wants Amazon To Stop 'Powering' Government Surveillance That Can Be Used Against Black Activists And Undocumented Immigrants
"“We already know facial recognition algorithms discriminate against black faces and are being used to violate the human rights of immigrants. We know putt…
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Amazon face recognition falsely matches 28 lawmakers with mugshots, ACLU says
"“The ACLU’s test demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt what many of us already know – that Amazon’s facial recognition tool is discriminatory ... and th…
Amazon Needs to Stop Providing Facial Recognition Tech for the Government
Imagine a technology that is potently, uniquely dangerous — something so inherently toxic that it deserves to be completely rejected, banned, and stigmatized. S…
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How to Turn Off Facebook's Face Recognition Features
""Using facial recognition to help the visually impaired or as a tool to identify and combat cyber harassment is notable, because the positive uses of…
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Is it time to crack down on facial recognition?
"Peter Asaro, a philosopher of technology at the New School in New York, said it may be best to see how authorities use the tools before getting too specif…
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Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
"“For many of these systems, the inclusion of real-time face recognition is just a software update away,” said Harlan Yu, co-author of a report on body cam…
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Does Snapchat’s Lenses feature violate Illinois’ biometrics law?
"“In this particular case, it's not clear that Snapchat even used face recognition technology in a way that would implicate BIPA,” Yana Welinder, a law…
Opinion: The ugliest side of facial recognition technology
It's no mystery that big data presents a challenge to privacy. But perhaps more alarming is the emergence of technology that combines facial recognition and…
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Chicago man sues Facebook over facial recognition use in “Tag Suggestions”
"Strahilevitz told Ars that Yana Welinder, a lawyer and legal fellow with Stanford University, wrote ajournal article in 2012 in the Harvard Law Review tou…
I See You: The Databases That Facial-Recognition Apps Need to Survive
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. Privacy concerns have been ignited by “NameTag,” a facial-recognition app designed to reveal personal information after analyzi…
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Feds spending over $5.1M on facial recognition surveillance program
"Meanwhile, a privacy expert, Woodrow Hartzog, law professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, echoed this sentiment and noted that fa…