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CyberLink announced a partnership integrating its facial recognition software development kit FaceMe into Vypin eScreener kiosks. Vypin launched the Vypin eScreener kiosk with the latest in automated screening technology to promote health and safety without sacrificing the employee or customer experience.

Canadian authorities have found that the collection of facial-recognition data by Clearview AI is illegal because it violates federal and provincial privacy laws, representing a win for individuals' privacy and potentially setting a precedent for other legal challenges to the controversial technology. A joint investigation of privacy authorities led by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada came to this conclusion Wednesday, claiming that the New York-based company's scraping of billions of images of people from across the Internet represented mass surveillance and infringes on the privacy rights of Canadians, according to a release the Office posted online.

Black man sues police, saying he was falsely ID'd by facial recognition, joining other Black Americans falling victim to the technology's racial bias. Racial bias against non-white skin in facial recognition landed Nijeer Parks ten days in jail in 2019 after the technology falsely identified him as a shoplifting suspect, a new lawsuit says.

At issue is the fact that Clearview uses photos from social media and other publicly available sources, without consent, in violation of what some say are basic privacy rights. ACLU has taken Clearview AI to court over privacy issues.

Despite all of the advancements we've seen, many organizations still rely on the same algorithm used by Bledsoe's database - known as "k-nearest neighbors" or k-NN. Since each face has multiple coordinates, a comparison of these distances over millions of facial images requires significant data processing. Facial recognition also involves finding the location of a feature on a face before evaluating it.

A bill making its way through the U.S. Senate aims to extend nationwide some of the restrictions on the collection of facial-recognition information already imposed by an Illinois state law, as well as expand private citizens' legal powers to sue companies that violate them. The proposed national law would also require that a company acquires written consent before recording anyone's biometric data, and provides both private citizens and state attorneys general to sue companies that violate these terms.

So far this year, the use of facial recognition by law enforcement has been successfully challenged by courts and legislatures on both sides of the Atlantic. Unconstrained use of facial recognition services by state and local government agencies poses broad social ramifications that should be considered and addressed.

Face masks not only have shown in research to slow the spread of COVID-19, they also deter facial-recognition technology from correctly identifying people, according to a new study. New research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that even the best of 89 commercial facial recognition algorithms tested experienced error rates between 5 percent and 50 percent when matching people in digitally applied face masks with photos of the same person without a mask.

Privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia have opened a joint investigation into facial recognition company Clearview AI over its use of personal data "Scraped" off social media platforms and other websites. Clearview AI Inc. came to attention after investigative reports detailed its practice of harvesting billions of photos from social media and other services to identify people.

Williams, a black man living in Michigan, was arrested in January when police used automatic facial recognition to match his old driver's license photo to a store's blurry surveillance footage of a black man allegedly stealing watches. The Detroit Police Department claims that it doesn't make arrests based solely on facial recognition.