[ Over the past week, Fabiola, a sophomore at Columbia, joined an encampment on her university’s quad, risked suspension and disrupted campus life, all in an effort to draw attention to the Palestinian cause. She describes stopping Israel’s deadly siege of the Gaza Strip as a moral duty – an urgent imperative around which she … Read more
[ WASHINGTON: A bipartisan group of senators is pushing for restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by the Transportation Security Administration, saying they are concerned about travellers’ privacy and civil liberties. In a letter May 2, the group of 14 lawmakers called on Senate leaders to use the upcoming reauthorisation of the Federal … Read more
[ A bipartisan group of senators called on the chamber’s leaders to use the upcoming Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill to restrict the use of facial recognition technology at airports throughout the country. In a letter on Thursday to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), 14 senators … Read more
[ SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces and collecting fingerprints, photographs and other biometric information from its citizens in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely, a report said on April 16. The state’s growing use of digital surveillance tools, which combine equipment imported from … Read more
[ Ever since the public release of tools such as Dall-E and Midjourney in the past couple of years, the artificial intelligence-generated images they’ve produced have stoked confusion about breaking news, fashion trends and Taylor Swift. Distinguishing between a real versus an AI-generated face has proved especially confounding. Research published across multiple studies found that … Read more
[ Democratic senators pressed the Department of Justice (DOJ) about police usage of facial recognition tools in a Thursday letter. “In recent years, facial recognition and other biometric technologies have become widely used in law enforcement,” the letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland reads. “However, these technologies can be unreliable and inaccurate, especially with respect … Read more
[ LONDON: On a grey, cloudy morning in December, London police deployed a state-of-the-art AI powered camera near the railway station in the suburb of Croydon and quietly scanned the faces of the unsuspecting passersby. The use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology – which creates biometric facial signatures before instantaneously running them through a … Read more
[ China is nurturing local hi-tech companies to fulfil its ambitions of becoming the global leader in fields such as artificial intelligence by 2030 and trying to offset any damage to promising start-ups from the US-China trade war. The Face ++ facial recognition system. Photo: Simon Song The Shanghai Stock Exchange launched the Star Market … Read more
[ Concerns over facial recognition use in public spaces in China, such as shopping malls and scenic spots, caught public attention in 2019 when the first lawsuit challenging the use of facial recognition in the country was filed by Guo Bing, an associate law professor at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, against a wildlife park in Hangzhou. … Read more
