Living in a world with facial recognition
13 years, 7 months ago

Living in a world with facial recognition

China Daily  

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. He sees increasing threats to privacy in facial recognition software and cloud computing -- the ability to store huge amounts of information in data centers. ALESSANDRO ACQUISTI: "The convergence of all these technologies -- face recognition, social networks, cloud computing -- and all these advances in statistical re-identification techniques and data mining are creating this world where you can blend together online and offline data. ALESSANDRO ACQUISTI: "Because face recognizers keep improving accuracy, because cloud computing keeps offering more power, and because more and more images of ourselves are going to be online, we are getting really close to this future where what we did as a proof of concept will be possible to do by anyone on a massive scale." In June, Facebook launched a facial recognition system to help users "tag" or list the names of people in photos.

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Meta to scan people’s faces to check whether they are AI
5 months ago

Meta to scan people’s faces to check whether they are AI

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Meta will use facial recognition technology to help people check whether they are …

The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics
55 years, 2 months ago

The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics

Wired  

Police and federal agencies are responding to a massive breach of personal data linked to a facial recognition scheme that was implemented in bars and clubs across Australia. “Sadly, this is a horrible example of what can happen as a result of implementing privacy-invasive facial recognition systems,” Samantha Floreani, head of policy for Australia-based privacy and security nonprofit Digital Rights …

Unproven, unregulated, facial recognition tech creeping in
2 years, 7 months ago

Unproven, unregulated, facial recognition tech creeping in

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : Facial recognition technology, a common trope in dystopian novels, is creeping into everyday life in India, deployed at airports to verify travellers and by law enforcement to identify suspects, unfettered by privacy laws that should regulate the use of sensitive data. Data compiled by digital rights advocacy body the Internet Freedom Foundation through right-to-information filings showed that …

Facebook to shut down face recognition for photo tagging
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook to shut down face recognition for photo tagging

Hindustan Times  

Facebook, which has changed its company name to Meta, has announced plans to shut down the facial recognition system used to tag people in photos and videos posted on the platform for about a decade. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said Jerome Pesenti, Meta’s vice-president, artificial intelligence. Facebook …

Facebook pulls the plug on its facial recognition system, to delete faceprints of over a billion users
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook pulls the plug on its facial recognition system, to delete faceprints of over a billion users

Firstpost  

More than a third of Facebook’s daily users had opted in to using the facial recognition system; concerns over privacy cited as the main reason for the shutdown. Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting a billion faceprints, its parent company said Tuesday, in response to serious concerns over privacy. It was not clear when the changes …

Facebook plans to shut down its face recognition system, delete data
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook plans to shut down its face recognition system, delete data

India TV News  

Facebook on Tuesday announced that it plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month.Jerome Pesenti, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Meta, Facebook's newly named parent company, said in a blog post, "We will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our …

Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data

The Hindu  

Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta. “Its removal will result in …

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software

CNN  

CNN Business — Facebook said Tuesday it plans to stop using facial-recognition software that could automatically recognize people in photos and videos posted on the social network, marking a massive shift both for the tech industry and for a company known for collecting vast amounts of data about its billions of users. Pesenti wrote that the world’s largest social network …

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
3 years, 5 months ago

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos

Wired  

Clearview AI has stoked controversy by scraping the web for photos and applying facial recognition to give police and others an unprecedented ability to peer into our lives. Clearview has collected billions of photos from across websites that include Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and uses AI to identify a particular person in images. The company’s cofounder and CEO, Hoan Ton-That, …

This new tool can tell you if your online photos are helping train facial recognition systems
4 years, 1 month ago

This new tool can tell you if your online photos are helping train facial recognition systems

CNN  

CNN Business — When you post photos of yourself or friends and family online, you may not imagine they could be used to develop facial-recognition systems that can identify individuals offline. It’s a small number in comparison to the millions of photos spread across countless facial datasets, but plenty of people will still be surprised to find their photos — …

Couple Challenge: Privacy Ending Trap for Facial Surveillance or Random Social Trend?
4 years, 5 months ago

Couple Challenge: Privacy Ending Trap for Facial Surveillance or Random Social Trend?

News 18  

Couple challenge is seemingly innocent on the face of it – an affectionate hashtag trend where you post a photograph of yourself with your romantic partner, as a token of your appreciation for the other person. While privacy advocates have long been alarmed by this, for many mainstream users, this is exactly why they would post a photograph with their …

Facebook Faces New Lawsuit For Using Instagram To Allegedly Store Biometric Data Without Consent
4 years, 7 months ago

Facebook Faces New Lawsuit For Using Instagram To Allegedly Store Biometric Data Without Consent

News 18  

Facebook and use data privacy really don’t seem to go hand in hand. In a new lawsuit filed in a state court in Redwood City, California, it is alleged that Facebook stored biometric data, such as from photo tags on the social network, without consent from as many as 100 million Instagram users. Instagram doesn’t use face recognition technology,” said …

Privacy fears as India police use facial recognition at rally
5 years, 2 months ago

Privacy fears as India police use facial recognition at rally

Al Jazeera  

In a first, Delhi Police use facial recognition software to screen crowds at Modi rally, raising surveillance concerns. Police in the Indian capital of New Delhi used facial recognition software to screen crowds at a recent political rally – a first for India – raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance amid nationwide protests against a new citizenship law. The …

Privacy fears as India police use facial recognition at rally
5 years, 2 months ago

Privacy fears as India police use facial recognition at rally

Al Jazeera  

In a first, Delhi Police use facial recognition software to screen crowds at Modi rally, raising surveillance concerns. Police in the Indian capital of New Delhi used facial recognition software to screen crowds at a recent political rally – a first for India – raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance amid nationwide protests against a new citizenship law. The …

World's biggest face recognition system arrives in India next month
5 years, 5 months ago

World's biggest face recognition system arrives in India next month

India TV News  

With the tender submission date to procure the National Automated Facial Recognition System just 20 days away, India is closer to install worlds largest facial recognition system to track and nab criminals. In April last year, Delhi Police identifed almost 3,000 missing children in just four days during a trial of a facial recognition system. Given the potential for abuse …

Facebook says its facial recognition tech will now be an opt-in feature
5 years, 6 months ago

Facebook says its facial recognition tech will now be an opt-in feature

Firstpost  

Facebook announced that its facial recognition technology will no longer identify new users in their photo by default. “Starting today, people who newly join Facebook or who previously had the tag suggestions setting will have the face recognition setting and will receive information about how it works. The tag suggestions setting, which only controls whether we can suggest that your …

Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'
5 years, 6 months ago

Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'

Firstpost  

- Facebook Inc said on Tuesday its face recognition technology will now be available to all users with an option to opt out, while deciding to discontinue a related feature called ‘Tag Suggestions’. Face recognition, which was available to some Facebook users since December 2017, notifies an account holder if their profile photo is used by someone else or if …

Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'
5 years, 6 months ago

Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Facebook Inc said on Tuesday its face recognition technology will now be available to all users with an option to opt out, while deciding to discontinue a related feature called 'Tag Suggestions'. Tag Suggestions, which used face recognition only to suggest a user to tag friends in photos, has been at the center of a privacy related lawsuit since …

How facial recognition works in your device and is it safe?
5 years, 7 months ago

How facial recognition works in your device and is it safe?

The Hindu  

‘Is this you?’ The Facebook algorithm ventured to ask my friend the other day, once again showing her a photo of her sister, elder to her by five years — the duo look startlingly similar, but not identical. Most recently, the massive appeal of Wireless Lab’s FaceApp, an application that showed strangely accurate representations of how you might look 50 …

Facebook’s Face-ID Database Could Be the Biggest in the World. Yes, It Should Worry Us.
55 years, 2 months ago

Facebook’s Face-ID Database Could Be the Biggest in the World. Yes, It Should Worry Us.

Slate  

Every day, Facebook users upload hundreds of millions of photos to the social network. The company’s research suggests that Facebook holds “the largest facial dataset to date”—powered by DeepFace, Facebook’s deep-learning facial recognition system. Unlike Amazon’s Rekognition, which is facial recognition software that scans existing databases provided by clients like law enforcement agencies, Facebook’s system doesn’t need an external trove …

If your image is online, it might be training facial-recognition AI
5 years, 11 months ago

If your image is online, it might be training facial-recognition AI

CNN  

San Francisco CNN Business — The photo is undeniably cute: a mom and a dad — he with a stubbly beard and rimless glasses, she with choppy brown hair and a wide grin — goofing around and eating ice cream with their two toddler daughters. IBM is just one among a slew of companies, research institutions, and individuals that have …

IBM used 100 mn photos from Flickr to train AI algorithms without user permission
6 years ago

IBM used 100 mn photos from Flickr to train AI algorithms without user permission

Firstpost  

The people photographed on Flickr didn’t consent to have their photos used to develop facial recognition systems. A report has found that the American IT giant has been using around one million images from Flickr to train its facial recognition AI, without the permission of the people in the photos. To create this dataset of faces, IBM drew upon a …

Could the #10YearChallenge Really Improve Facial Recognition Tech?
6 years, 2 months ago

Could the #10YearChallenge Really Improve Facial Recognition Tech?

Slate  

Over the past week, the #2009vs2019 meme challenge, alternately known as the #10yearchallenge and #HowHardDidAgeHitYou, has become the latest social media trend ripe for think piece fodder. Me 10 years ago: probably would have played along with the profile picture aging meme going around on Facebook and Instagram Me now: ponders how all this data could be mined to train …

Amazon Is Working With Police to Provide Facial Recognition Surveillance
6 years, 10 months ago

Amazon Is Working With Police to Provide Facial Recognition Surveillance

Slate  

Remember when Amazon mostly just sold books? According to public records obtained by American Civil Liberties Union, Amazon and Washington County built a mobile app for law enforcement to scan images against the county’s mugshot database on the go, too. On Amazon’s Rekognition customer page, Orlando’s police chief calls their relationship “a unique, first-of-it’s-kind public-private partnership,” in which Amazon’s technology …

Privacy vs Security – The Big Dilemma Over Facial Recognition
6 years, 11 months ago

Privacy vs Security – The Big Dilemma Over Facial Recognition

The Quint  

Let us also consider the privacy issues that are raised here. User privacy is of utmost importance; by collecting large databases of faces, we need to make sure that the people to whom these faces belong, are aware of and amenable to this usage. For example, Illinois and Texas – two states in the USA – have enforced the Biometric …

How to Turn Off Facebook's Face Recognition Features
55 years, 2 months ago

How to Turn Off Facebook's Face Recognition Features

Wired  

In recent days, more and more Facebook users started seeing a notification about how the social network uses its facial recognition technology. In December, though, the company announced that it would expand face recognition's scope to notify you when someone added a photo you were in, whether it was tagged or not. "You control face recognition," the message reads, popping …

Facebook's face recognition 'optional' tool is widely rolling out to users, but it raises a lot of privacy concerns
7 years ago

Facebook's face recognition 'optional' tool is widely rolling out to users, but it raises a lot of privacy concerns

Firstpost  

However, not everything is great and rosy as Facebook claims as the company has not clarified about how long it will be an opt-in feature. Back in December last year, Facebook announced that it is rolling out new “optional” tool that will use its facial recognition prowess to protect user privacy. Facebook claims that this new feature will help reduce …

Facebook Expands Use Of Facial Recognition To ID Users In Photos
7 years, 3 months ago

Facebook Expands Use Of Facial Recognition To ID Users In Photos

NPR  

Facebook Expands Use Of Facial Recognition To ID Users In Photos toggle caption Facebook Facebook is expanding its use of facial recognition software to alert users when photos of them are posted on the platform — whether or not they are tagged in the photo. "We want people to feel confident when they post pictures of themselves on Facebook so …

Hoax facial recognition app Facezam identifies strangers
8 years ago

Hoax facial recognition app Facezam identifies strangers

Daily Mail  

A fake facial recognition app that claimed smartphone users would soon be able to identify complete strangers has turned out to be a publicity stunt. Scroll down for video The Facezam app, which has now been revealed to be a hoax, claimed it could scan millions of Facebook profile images in a matter of seconds WHAT DID THEY CLAIM? The …

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)
8 years, 7 months ago

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)

Wired  

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognize you. Earlier this month at the Usenix security conference, security and computer vision specialists from the University of North Carolina presented a system that uses digital 3-D facial models based on publicly available photos and displayed with mobile virtual reality technology to defeat facial recognition systems. Department of …

Facebook's Facial Recognition Software Is Different From The FBI's. Here's Why
8 years, 10 months ago

Facebook's Facial Recognition Software Is Different From The FBI's. Here's Why

NPR  

Facebook's Facial Recognition Software Is Different From The FBI's. Every time one of its 1.65 billion users uploads a photo to Facebook and tags someone, that person is helping the facial recognition algorithm. Compare that with the FBI's facial recognition technology, Next Generation Identification, which according to the FBI, identifies the correct person in the list of the top 50 …

The Capability: Government's national facial recognition plan raises privacy concerns
9 years, 3 months ago

The Capability: Government's national facial recognition plan raises privacy concerns

ABC  

An assessment of the Federal Government's plan for a national facial recognition system has raised concerns about its impact on privacy. Key points: Facial recognition system known as The Capability would house 100 million images Could compile images from multiple databases including Facebook Fears hackers could have citizens compromised for life Launching by mid-2016 Loading. The Government is planning to …

Facebook Can Recognize You Even if You Don't Show Your Face
9 years, 9 months ago

Facebook Can Recognize You Even if You Don't Show Your Face

Wired  

Tagging has always been a controversial Facebook feature. In fact, the fact that Facebook’s engine was learning what we looked like and could suggest inserting our identity into images came with some consequences. According to New Scientist, Facebook’s artificial intelligence lab is working on an algorithm that can identify people even if their faces are hidden. Speaking to New Scientist, …

Facebook Envisions AI That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics
10 years, 3 months ago

Facebook Envisions AI That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics

Wired  

Let's say you're out drinking with your buddies, things get out of hand, you pull out your smartphone, you take a selfie in the middle of all this drunken revelry, then you take 30 or 40 more, and, without hesitation, you start uploading them to Facebook. LeCun is the New York University researcher and machine-learning guru who now oversees the …

NameTag: Facial recognition app scans faces for dating profiles, criminal background
11 years, 2 months ago

NameTag: Facial recognition app scans faces for dating profiles, criminal background

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The makers of new app called NameTag are promising that in the future …

Find yourself amongst the 1.26bn Facebook users on one webpage
11 years, 5 months ago

Find yourself amongst the 1.26bn Facebook users on one webpage

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ‘Creative technologist’ Natalia Rojas has taken a different and more direct approach: cramming every single profile picture …

The surveillance society is here
11 years, 6 months ago

The surveillance society is here

Al Jazeera  

We must be aware of the surveillance tools introduced into our lives – especially those that we already consent to. Last week, Facebook published an update to its user policy declaring its intent to develop a facial recognition feature incorporating one billion users’ data into yet another database. Zuckerberg’s little red book of connectivity is laden with tech talk that …

Facebook wants to put profile photos in its facial recognition database
11 years, 6 months ago

Facebook wants to put profile photos in its facial recognition database

Firstpost  

Facebook is considering adding users’ profile pictures to their facial recognition database in a move which is sure to spark debate around the issue of online privacy. This possible move, which was unveiled on Thursday by Facebook as part of its data use policy update, will expand the scope of the social network’s controversial facial recognition technology, and improve the …

Facebook wants to put profile photos in its facial recognition database
11 years, 6 months ago

Facebook wants to put profile photos in its facial recognition database

Firstpost  

Facebook is considering adding users’ profile pictures to their facial recognition database in a move which is sure to spark debate around the issue of online privacy. This possible move, which was unveiled on Thursday by Facebook as part of its data use policy update, will expand the scope of the social network’s controversial facial recognition technology, and improve the …

Facebook wants to add pictures to database for facial recognition
11 years, 6 months ago

Facebook wants to add pictures to database for facial recognition

NL Times  

Facebook is considering including public profile pictures of users in a large database for facial recognition. The social network announced the plans by an update of its terms of use, reports Reuter.The facial recognition database is used to help tag people in pictures and to automatically introduce people. The addition of public profile pictures will lead to an improved control …

Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition
11 years, 6 months ago

Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition

Live Mint  

San Francisco: Facebook Inc is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members’ profile photos into its growing facial recognition database, expanding the scope of the social network’s controversial technology. The feature uses facial recognition technology to speed up the process of labeling or “tagging" friends and acquaintances who appear in photos posted on the network. Facebook chief privacy officer …

Why facial recognition failed
11 years, 11 months ago

Why facial recognition failed

Salon  

It's a staple of TV dramas -- the photograph of a suspect is plugged into a law enforcement database, and a few minutes later: presto! The Boston police commissioner says that facial recognition software did not help identify the Boston bombing suspects, despite the fact that their images were included in public records databases such as the DMV. There are …

Facebook's facial recognition earns German state's wrath – Firstpost
13 years, 4 months ago

Facebook's facial recognition earns German state's wrath – Firstpost

Firstpost  

One of Facebook’s popular, and spoken about features has been its facial recognition feature, opting for which allows the social … One of Facebook’s popular, and much spoken about features has been its facial recognition feature, opting for which allows the social networking site to recognize faces on photos, and then suggest the user to tag the friend. According to …

Privacy concerns over facial recognition systems
13 years, 7 months ago

Privacy concerns over facial recognition systems

China Daily  

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. She says she is concerned that governments and police are increasingly using facial recognition software without clearly defined policies. China's official news agency Xinhua says the British government has "recognized that a balance needs to be struck between freedom and the monitoring of social media tools." The American Civil Liberties Union of …

Facebook faces fresh privacy complaints over facial recognition
13 years, 7 months ago

Facebook faces fresh privacy complaints over facial recognition

Firstpost  

Concerns about Facebook’s facial recognition technology are not just about the nuances of opt-in versus opt-out or the saving of sensitive biometric data by the company. It denies the accusations, saying:“We will consider the points the Hamburg Data Protection Authority have made about the ‘photo tag suggest’ feature but firmly reject any claim that we are not meeting our obligations …

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