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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Before the city council voted on Ordinance 33,809, local advocates spoke out about their concerns with how the NOPD is now allowed to use facial recognition software. “Right now there are almost no protections in place around the use of the tech and we are relying on the NOPD to follow …

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ORLANDO, Fla. – Walt Disney World is now testing a new facial recognition technology at its Magic Kingdom theme park. The new technology captures an image of a guest’s face and converts it into a unique number, which is then associated with the form of admission being used for park entry. Disney said on its …

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Experts advocate robust regulation of facial recognition technology to reduce discriminatory outcomes. After Detroit police arrested Robert Williams for another person’s crime, officers reportedly showed him the surveillance video image of another Black man that they had used to identify Williams. The image prompted him to ask the officers if they thought “all Black men …

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A recent study published in Scientific Reports revealed that facial recognition technology can accurately predict someone’s political stance from their Facebook profile photo. According to the study, authored by Michal Kosinski, the algorithm shows greater accuracy in deducing a person’s political orientation than either human judgement or a personality test. A common facial recognition algorithm …

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The Lucknow police’s decision to use facial recognition technology (FRT) to monitor women’s expressions to prevent street harassment has spurred privacy concerns among Indians. The government needs to create strict and clear regulations before it allows law enforcement agencies to use facial recognition for policing, privacy advocates said. “Considering the explicit and expansive findings on …

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A proposal to ban the use of facial recognition technology by Minneapolis police and other city departments is advancing. The technology has raised concerns by some who worry it could be a dangerous step toward a surveillance state where people’s movements are tracked the moment they leave their homes. The technology uses …

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Three things about the research paper stopped me in my tracks. The first was the title: Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images. The second was that the author was Michal Kosinski, someone who used to be at Cambridge University, is now at Stanford and whose work I’ve followed for years. …

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“It all depends what you want to take from the article, what you want to take from the study. People that argue using facial recognition could hurt people of color, I argue just the opposite. In the city of Pittsburgh this year probably 80% of our homicides the victims are Black. 85% of our non-fatal shootings, the …

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials today announced the implementation of a facial-recognition process at Los Angeles International Airport that will screen passengers entering the country. The process is called Simplified Arrival, which uses facial biometrics to automate the manual document checks that are already required for admission into the U.S. …

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LONDON: Britain set out its plans this week for a digital identity system aimed at making it easier for people to access public services and buy age-restricted goods – whether registering with a new doctor or buying a bottle of wine. But the British government’s latest plans come as digital rights campaigners worldwide warn about …