One of the many (MANY) ways Microsoft is not Apple: I trained the Windows Hello fingerprint sensor on my Surface Laptop Go a week ago, and it has not successfully recognized my fingerprint a single time. ☝️
The ESRB wants to start using facial scanning technology to check people's ages
The ESRB, along with digital identity company Yoti and Epic Games-owned, SuperAwesome, have filed a proposal with the FTC for an "auto face capture module," to use #facialrecognition to ensure it sees the face of an adult before permissions are granted
“It really isn’t good enough....Not only do you have potentially millions of people whose images are in police records, even though there are no guilty findings against them, but you can’t even know how many there are... It is an intractable problem.”
Ten Reasons Why The Digital Personal Data Protection Law Doesn't Empower Citizens
Among the ten-point list of issues this Bill doesn't address is unchecked data collection by employees, the weakening of the RTI Act, and the sanctioning of a data protection board that will be beholden to those in power.
#DHS#FacialRecognition#ClearView#Surveillance#Biometrics: "The Baker investigation provides a rare insight into how HSI is using facial recognition tools like Clearview AI to quickly chase down new child exploitation leads. But HSI is also using this type of technology in an unprecedented three-week operation to solve years-old crimes that’s led to hundreds of identifications of children and abusers, according to Jim Cole, who spent over two decades on fighting crimes against minors for the HSI and who pushed the initiative before retiring earlier this year. Cole told Forbes the previously unreported task force started operating out of the HSI Cyber Crime Center in mid-July and ended on August 4.
Jim Cole, former HSI child exploitation investigator
“No single effort like this has resulted in that amount of identifications in such a short period of time,” Cole told Forbes. “The tech used can assimilate the data and put that puzzle together. Before, we didn’t have the pieces.”
HSI declined to confirm or comment on the operations’ existence.
Cole declined to name the tools that were used, but sources with knowledge of the operation told Forbes one of them was the controversial facial recognition technology created by Clearview AI. The New York City–based startup claims to have amassed a database of more than 30 billion images scraped without permission from places such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. HSI has signed multiple contracts with Clearview worth up to $2 million, and Clearview has previously said its tech was used by HSI to investigate child exploitation."
#UK#Surveillance#Biometrics#FacialRecognition#ShopLifting: "Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets, internal government minutes seen by the Observer reveal.
The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door meeting on 8 March between policing minister Chris Philp, senior Home Office officials and the private firm Facewatch, whose facial recognition cameras have provoked fierce opposition after being installed in shops.
In a development that ignores critics who claim the technology breaches human rights and is biased, particularly against darker-skinned people, minutes of the meeting appear to show Home Office officials agreeing to write to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) advocating the merits of facial recognition technology in tackling “retail crime”."
“If someone steals a biometric scan of your palm, you can’t get a new palm.” is a weak mindset. we all know you can just place your palm onto a boiling stove top
#AI#FacialRecognition#Biometrics#GenerativeAI#ChatGPT: "What with increasing attention on AI through systems such as ChatGPT, it’s a good time to have a robust public debate about the use of these technologies. But a responsible conversation should focus less on future scenarios of robot hyperintelligence and more on the actual, real-world harms that can be inflicted when we outsource decisions about human lives to machines. Let’s spend less time worrying about Skynet and more time considering how we might shrink systems that harm the most vulnerable in society."
"Customers who link their Prime membership with their Amazon One profile will also automatically receive savings once their palm is registered, according to the Seattle-based retail giant."
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#FacialRecognition#Biometrics#DataProtection: "Recently, the app stopped giving Mr. Mosen information about people’s faces, saying they had been obscured for privacy reasons. He was disappointed, feeling that he should have the same access to information as a sighted person.
The change reflected OpenAI’s concern that it had built something with a power it didn’t want to release.
The company’s technology can identify primarily public figures, such as people with a Wikipedia page, said Sandhini Agarwal, an OpenAI policy researcher, but does not work as comprehensively as tools built for finding faces on the internet, such as those from Clearview AI and PimEyes. The tool can recognize OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, in photos, Ms. Agarwal said, but not other people who work at the company.
Making such a feature publicly available would push the boundaries of what was generally considered acceptable practice by U.S. technology companies. It could also cause legal trouble in jurisdictions, such as Illinois and Europe, that require companies to get citizens’ consent to use their biometric information, including a faceprint."
Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has revealed stadiums including the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Sydney Cricket Ground and Qudos Bank Arena include FRT use within their conditions of entry.
There are community concerns over privacy and human rights issues arising from the growing use of the technology which collects an individual's biometric data."
The European Union’s Entry-Exit System (EES), which aims to enhance internal security and modernise external border management, will start its operation just a few months from now. The Entry/Exit System (EES) will be an automated system that will be used to register travellers from third countries each time they cross an EU...
#UK#FacialRecognition#Surveillance#Biometrics: "Facewatch, a British company, is used by retailers across the country frustrated by petty crime. For as little as 250 pounds a month, or roughly $320, Facewatch offers access to a customized watchlist that stores near one another share. When Facewatch spots a flagged face, an alert is sent to a smartphone at the shop, where employees decide whether to keep a close eye on the person or ask the person to leave.
Mr. Mackenzie adds one or two new faces every week, he said, mainly people who steal diapers, groceries, pet supplies and other low-cost goods. He said their economic hardship made him sympathetic, but that the number of thefts had gotten so out of hand that facial recognition was needed. Usually at least once a day, Facewatch alerts him that somebody on the watchlist has entered the store."
In her keynote, Petra Molnar speaks about the (digital) #violence on the frontier of the world's #borders, a reality of opaque decision-making and a testing ground for #surveillance technologies at the expense of people's lives.
Imagine having to take a lie detector test before you go into the grocery store - or scanning your #biometrics when you visit the doctor? We would be up in arms if this happened, but somehow it's ok that it happens at the #border.
:BoostOK: Do not kill the password! In the US at least, passwords are considered knowledge, so you are constitutionally protected from revealing passwords as per the 5th amendment of the US Constitution. That means the government can't legally get the password out of you. Biometrics on the other hand, is not considered knowledge, and the government can force your hand (sometimes literally) for your biometrics to unlock something.
Privacy group challenges Ryanair’s use of facial recognition (www.biometricupdate.com)
The complaint alleges that Ryanair is infringing on customers' data protection rights by using facial recognition for identity verification.
EU to Launch Biometric Entry/Exit System in a Few Months - SchengenVisaInfo.com (www.schengenvisainfo.com)
The European Union’s Entry-Exit System (EES), which aims to enhance internal security and modernise external border management, will start its operation just a few months from now. The Entry/Exit System (EES) will be an automated system that will be used to register travellers from third countries each time they cross an EU...