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The biggest unknowns surrounding facial authentication (i.e., data security, bias, and misuse) need to be actively addressed ...
The company and industry group have produced a whitepaper on the topic, and will discuss the benefits of overcoming these ...
The facial recognition technology deployed at this year's Notting Hill Carnival has "significantly improved" from previous years and will be used without bias, the Metropolitan Police has said. Met ...
Home Depot is accused of breaking the law by using facial recognition at self-checkout kiosks in Illinois. The Home Depot is facing a class-action lawsuit in Illinois for allegedly collecting ...
The Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is unlawful, according to UK equality watchdog, citing the need for deployments of the technology to be necessary, ...
Sainsbury’s is to use controversial face recognition technology in its stores for the first time. However, the use of facial recognition has been heavily criticised by privacy groups. Campaign group ...
The UK's equality regulator has criticised the Metropolitan Police's use of live facial recognition technology (LFR), saying the way it is being deployed is breaching human rights law. The tech works ...
The use of live facial recognition by Britain’s biggest police force is ‘unlawful’ and not compatible with human rights laws, the equalities watchdog has said. The Equality and Human Rights Commission ...
The lawsuit alleges the company uses a form of artificial intelligence called “computer vision” to help mitigate theft by collecting data about customers’ facial geometry Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via ...
Civil liberties and anti-racism groups have called on Met Police to abandon plans to deploy Live Facial Recognition (LFR) at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, warning of “racial bias.” In a letter to ...
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The Metropolitan Police’s plan to use live facial recognition (LFR) technology is “unlawful” and “incompatible” with human rights laws and could be racist, the equalities watchdog has said. The ...