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The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country. The mobile reporting app would use biometrics to confirm a person’s identity and record their location data when they use …
Read More »As some Ontario police increasingly use facial recognition technology, calls grow for regulations
Some police services in Canada are using facial recognition technology to help solve crimes, while other police forces say human rights and privacy concerns are holding them back from employing the powerful digital tools. It’s this uneven application of the technology — and the loose rules governing its use — …
Read More »48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: 48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space — The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under …
Read More »Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML's data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people's consent (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML’s data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people’s consent — The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of …
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