Facebook's AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @histoftech , @samgregory , @kimcrayton1 , and @profcarroll Tweets: Mar Hicks / @histoftech : Facebook's earliest iteration, Facemash, also scraped (stole) pics Zuc...
CBP scanned 23M+ people with facial recognition tech at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, and reveals it caught zero imposters at airports
U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people in public places with facial recognition technology in 2020 Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection . Tweets: @stilgherrian , ...
A look at how COVID-19 has accelerated development of tech that tracks workers, and how physically tracing employees could be mainstream even after the pandemic
A boom in contact tracing devices could herald a new era of worker surveillance — Before April, Radiant RFID … Tweets: @davegershgorn , @sarahnemerson , @bcmerchant , @davegershgorn , and @medium Tw...
Documents show how Clear, which lets its members skip security lines at 35 US airports, is building a digital ID system for storing health care info and more
'You are your driver's license, your credit card, your health care card, your building access card' — In March, the air travel industry ground to a halt. Tweets: @davegershgorn , @dlberes , @turnern...
A look at how Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs' bet on making Toronto a smart city failed, driven by intense resistance from residents and civic leaders
Alphabet bet big in Toronto. Toronto didn't play along. — October 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke … Tweets: @dlberes , @ozm , @yeahyeahyasmin , @ozm , @davegershgorn , @longform ...
Buenos Aires has had live facial recognition in its subway systems for about a year, which has caused wrongful detentions, even as politicians praise the system
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @davegershgorn , @davegershgorn , @bcmerchant , @ozm , @dlberes , @ipvanish , @ozm , and @fabiochiusi . Thanks: @davegershgorn Tweets: Dave Gershgorn / @davegershgo...
US Army contracted two firms for $4.5M to create a facial recognition system that analyzes infrared images to identify people at a distance of 10 to 500 meters
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @ozm , @offdutytiger , @ozm , @6eorge6 , @ozm , @a_bacci , and @sophielgilbert . Thanks: @davegershgorn Tweets: OneZero / @ozm : NEW: The U.S. military is developin...
Docs show surveillance robots from Knightscope collect data using tools like facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, and wireless device detection
OneZero obtained a presentation that reveals how Knightscope uses facial recognition and license plate readers to track individuals Tweets: @ozm , @davegershgorn , @kodykinzie , @grog_wilson , @bryanr...
Documents shed light on the US Army's Automated Biometric Information System, a database with 7.4M identities that underpins US military intelligence operations
ver the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. Tweets: @carolineha_ , @mvzelenks , @davegershgorn , @willoremus , @davegershgorn , @davegershgorn , @dav...
After Partnership on AI issues a report condemning the use of algorithms to assess bail, only Microsoft agrees to publicly comment on it
The Partnership on AI, a trade organization founded by Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft to set best-practice standards on AI research … Tweets: @davegershgorn Tweets: Dave Gershgorn...