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The New York Times has a long story about Clearview AI, a small company that scrapes identified photos of people from pretty much everywhere, and then uses unstated magical AI technology to identify people in other photos. His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app.
During a House hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the spread of surveillance via ubiquitous facial recognition is like something out of the tech dystopia TV show "Black Mirror." At one point, Ocasio-Cortez asked Meredith Whittaker - co-founder and co-director of New York University's AI Now Institute, who had noted in the hearing that facial recognition is a potential tool of authoritarian regimes - to remind the committee of some of the common ways that companies collect our facial recognition data.
VIVOTEK, the global leading IP surveillance solution provider, and CyberLink, a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, announced they have entered into a strategic partnership, which will integrate CyberLink's FaceMe AI facial recognition engine into VIVOTEK's IP surveillance solutions. "Founded in 2000, VIVOTEK has been dedicated to the IP surveillance industry for 20 years. Entering the era of AIoT, we will continue global partnerships to accelerate and enhance video applications by joining forces with industry-leading analytic software providers."
On Tuesday, the digital rights group Fight for the Future announced that it's teamed up with Students for Sensible Drug Policy to ban the biometric technology from university campuses. Facial recognition surveillance spreading to college campuses would put students, faculty, and community members at risk.
CyberLink, a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, announced that its FaceMe AI facial recognition engine has been integrated with iMedtac's Automatic Dispensing Cabinet. iMedtac is leading the charge by integrating AI and facial recognition to its new generation of AIoT-powered iHospital service platform.
Only certain cameras support Windows Hello facial recognition, and you have to set up the feature for it to scan and recognize your face. On the plus side, if you're able to set up facial recognition, you can use it for more than just signing in to Windows 10.
A new report from Juniper Research found that facial recognition hardware, such as Face ID on recent iPhones, will be the fastest growing form of smartphone biometric hardware. The new research, Mobile Payment Authentication: Biometrics, Regulation & Forecasts 2019-2024, however notes that the majority of smartphone facial recognition will be software-based, with over 1.3 billion devices having that capability by 2024.
Facial recognition systems can produce wildly inaccurate results, especially for non-whites, according to a US government study released Thursday that is likely to raise fresh doubts on deployment...
Biometric facial scanning won’t be a requirement for all U.S. citizens traveling internationally after all, the department decided.
Now all travelers to and from the U.S. - even if they are U.S. citizens - will be subject to facial recognition-based checks, a new filing revealed.