Dutch police likely used controversial facial recognition software despite minister’s denial: Report
3 years, 4 months ago

Dutch police likely used controversial facial recognition software despite minister’s denial: Report

NL Times  

A leaked software log from the debated facial recognition software Clearview AI showed that Dutch police officers used the program to identify suspects, the Reformatorisch Dagblad reported. In April 2020, Minister of Justice Ferd Grapperhaus denied that Dutch authorities used the software. Yet, based on Clearview AI logs the Dutch police used the software between 50 to 100 times between 2018 and 2020, the Reformatorisch Dagblad reported. CATCH is the facial recognition software used by Dutch police.

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More than 50 sex offenders arrested using new facial recognition technology
1 month ago

More than 50 sex offenders arrested using new facial recognition technology

Hindustan Times  

More than 50 sex offenders found to be in breach of court orders have been tracked down by Metropolitan Police using facial recognition technology. The new technology has been used to arrest people wanted for criminal offences ranging from theft to rape across London. Additionally, 50 people wanted for allegedly serious offences against women including stalking, domestic abuse, rape and …

Dutch police identified 424 suspects with facial recognition last year
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Dutch police identified 424 suspects with facial recognition last year

NL Times  

Dutch police have significantly expanded their use of facial recognition technology to identify suspects, relying on a new algorithm that has improved their ability to match images with criminal databases. It uses a specialized database of facial images collected during criminal investigations, including photos of suspects and convicted individuals. “We never employ live facial recognition, and all actions are closely …

Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces
4 months, 1 week ago

Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces

The Independent  

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Policing minister urges forces to double use of facial recognition software
1 year, 2 months ago

Policing minister urges forces to double use of facial recognition software

The Independent  

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Police use facial recognition technology to catch prolific shoplifters with state-of-the-art system which can identify potential suspects in just 60 seconds
1 year, 2 months ago

Police use facial recognition technology to catch prolific shoplifters with state-of-the-art system which can identify potential suspects in just 60 seconds

Daily Mail  

Game-changing facial recognition technology is now being used by police to catch prolific shoplifters. Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the results were 'game-changing' and the use of FRT could revolutionise how police forces investigate Concerns: Privacy rights group Big Brother Watch launched a legal challenge over the use of facial recognition software in the UK Opposed: The software …

Police Commission sets new rules for how LAPD uses surveillance technology
2 years, 4 months ago

Police Commission sets new rules for how LAPD uses surveillance technology

LA Times  

LAPD Chief Michel Moore in 2020. This week, Moore voiced support for new rules on how the department can use surveillance technology, saying they would be “valuable in building public trust.” The Los Angeles Police Commission on Tuesday adopted new rules for how police can use crimefighting technologies, despite opposition from advocacy groups who said they could lead to increased …

Editorial: Police body cams shouldn’t be surveillance tools
2 years, 7 months ago

Editorial: Police body cams shouldn’t be surveillance tools

LA Times  

Police body cameras and facial recognition technology serve two completely different purposes and shouldn’t be combined. Body cams record officer interactions with the public and make police less likely to fib about what they did or why, because they know there will be a reviewable recording. It infringes on privacy — with little benefit to public safety, because facial recognition …

Face scanner firm Clearview AI agrees to limits to settle lawsuit
2 years, 8 months ago

Face scanner firm Clearview AI agrees to limits to settle lawsuit

The Hindu  

The facial recognition startup Clearview AI agreed to restrictions on how businesses can use its database of billions of facial images, to resolve a lawsuit it accusing it of collecting people's photos without permission. Under a settlement filed on Monday in an Illinois state court in Chicago, Clearview AI will stop granting paid or free access to its database to …

Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police
2 years, 9 months ago

Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses. The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would …

Australia regulator demands face-scanning firm delete photos
3 years, 2 months ago

Australia regulator demands face-scanning firm delete photos

Associated Press  

An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected. Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk said Wednesday that the company breached Australians’ privacy by pulling their personal data from the web and disclosing it through its facial recognition …

Facial recognition used at 25 events in Limburg in past few months: NRC
3 years, 2 months ago

Facial recognition used at 25 events in Limburg in past few months: NRC

Dutch News  

A small festival in Limburg used facial recognition as a way for visitors to provide ID in addition to the QR code, the NRC reported on Tuesday. Organiser Marcel van Eeghem said the app speeded up entry controls ‘enormously’ and that the tool will also be used at the opening festival of the Carnaval celebrations, which some 17,000 visitors are …

Facial recognition used at 25 events in Limburg in past few months: NRC
3 years, 2 months ago

Facial recognition used at 25 events in Limburg in past few months: NRC

Dutch News  

A small festival in Limburg used facial recognition as a way for visitors to provide ID in addition to the QR code, the NRC reported on Tuesday. Organiser Marcel van Eeghem said the app speeded up entry controls ‘enormously’ and that the tool will also be used at the opening festival of the Carnaval celebrations, which some 17,000 visitors are …

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
3 years, 3 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, …

Police removed 218,000 photos from facial recognition database last year
3 years, 5 months ago

Police removed 218,000 photos from facial recognition database last year

NL Times  

The Dutch police removed over 218 thousand photos from its facial recognition database last year, the National Unit announced with the annual figures for 2020. This is the first time the police gave any indication of the number of photos that were unjustly in the face database, NU.nl reports. A police spokesperson could not tell NU.nl how many unique people …

EU data watchdogs want ban on AI facial recognition
3 years, 6 months ago

EU data watchdogs want ban on AI facial recognition

The Hindu  

The EU's data protection agencies on Monday called for an outright ban on using artificial intelligence to identify people in public places, pointing to the "extremely high" risks to privacy. In a non-binding opinion, the two bodies called for a "general ban" on the practice that would include "recognition of faces, gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or …

States push back against use of facial recognition by police
3 years, 8 months ago

States push back against use of facial recognition by police

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button. “It’s one of those rare issues that’s seen bipartisan support, in that nobody wants to be tracked …

Virginia lawmakers ban police use of facial recognition
3 years, 9 months ago

Virginia lawmakers ban police use of facial recognition

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — Last month, Virginia lawmakers quietly passed one of the most restrictive bans in the country on the use of facial recognition technology. The legislation, which won unusually broad bipartisan support, prohibits all local law enforcement agencies and campus police departments from purchasing or using facial recognition technology unless it is expressly authorized by the state legislature. Aird …

Thousands wrongly on police's facial recognition database: report
3 years, 9 months ago

Thousands wrongly on police's facial recognition database: report

NL Times  

The police have photos of over 1.3 million people on its facial recognition systems, but many thousands of them should not be on there. The photos on the CATCH system largely come from another database of suspects and convicts, which is managed by the Ministry of Justice and Security and has been in use since 2010. The judicial information service …

U.S. lawmakers aim to curtail face recognition even as the technology IDs Capitol attackers
3 years, 11 months ago

U.S. lawmakers aim to curtail face recognition even as the technology IDs Capitol attackers

The Hindu  

U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month. Sheldon said he provided the FBI possible names of several people in the violent mob thanks to a facial recognition program he purchased. Markey last year …

Controversial facial recognition technology quietly used by Co-Op
4 years, 1 month ago

Controversial facial recognition technology quietly used by Co-Op

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. “All of our customers have been made aware with distinctive signage and we have introduced a system …

Tech companies say they want to see a nationwide facial recognition law
4 years, 6 months ago

Tech companies say they want to see a nationwide facial recognition law

CNN  

CNN — In a matter of days, there was a sea change with one of the most cutting-edge and controversial technologies in Silicon Valley. Three tech giants — Amazon, Microsoft and IBM — all said this week they will not sell facial recognition technology to police. Silicon Valley goes to Washington Tech companies have seized opportunities where they can in …

Australian Federal Police officers trialled controversial facial recognition tool Clearview AI
4 years, 8 months ago

Australian Federal Police officers trialled controversial facial recognition tool Clearview AI

ABC  

Australian Federal Police officers trialled controversial facial recognition technology Clearview AI from late 2019, despite the agency initially denying any association with the company. Key points: Australian Federal Police officers have used facial recognition technology Clearview AI The confirmation comes despite the agency earlier denying any links with the controversial company Labor leaders and digital rights advocates are concerned about …

Coming to terms with biometrics in policing
4 years, 9 months ago

Coming to terms with biometrics in policing

The Hindu  

Ever since the police became a formal organisation nearly 150 years ago, there is global consensus that the police charter ought not to be restricted to a mere maintenance of peace in public places. This explains the sharp adverse responses, albeit only by a few groups, to a counter-crime facial recognition technology. Perhaps the stoutest defender of facial recognition technology …

If You Thought Facial Recognition is a Privacy Nightmare, it is Only Going to Get Worse in India
4 years, 11 months ago

If You Thought Facial Recognition is a Privacy Nightmare, it is Only Going to Get Worse in India

News 18  

In recent times, the use of facial recognition tools by the Delhi Police has come to light. While Wig identified Defence Research and Development Organisation, India’s state-backed military research arm, as one of his clients for the facial recognition software, he refrained from naming other clients that have also sourced the tool from him. However, he broadly classified them as …

London Cops Will Use Facial Recognition to Hunt Suspects
4 years, 11 months ago

London Cops Will Use Facial Recognition to Hunt Suspects

Wired  

There will soon be a new bobby on the beat in London: artificial intelligence. London’s Metropolitan Police said Friday that it will deploy facial recognition technology to find wanted criminals and missing persons. Seeing a major police force in a Western democracy embrace facial recognition may only embolden more repressive regimes elsewhere in the world, says Silkie Carlo, director of …

Privacy fears as London police to begin using facial recognition technology
4 years, 11 months ago

Privacy fears as London police to begin using facial recognition technology

ABC  

London police say they will start using live facial recognition cameras in operational deployments, in a major advance for the controversial technology. Key points: London already has one of the highest concentrations of CCTV cameras in the world Rights groups say the technology threatens basic civil liberties Police have previously trialled facial recognition in the British capital The Metropolitan Police …

The Australian behind Clearview AI, a facial recognition software, says it is being used here
4 years, 11 months ago

The Australian behind Clearview AI, a facial recognition software, says it is being used here

ABC  

Police across the globe are turning to a powerful new tool created by an Australian, facial recognition software called Clearview AI. Key points: Clearview AI was founded by Australian Hoan Ton-That and sells facial recognition technology to police around the world The technology uses over 3 billion images of people taken from publicly accessible websites Mr Ton-That says the technology …

Dutch police facial recognition database includes 1.3 million people
5 years, 5 months ago

Dutch police facial recognition database includes 1.3 million people

Dutch News  

A database used by the Dutch police for facial recognition technology currently includes 1.3 million people and 2.2 million photos, according to research by Vice. As yet, there is no real debate in the Netherlands about facial recognition technology, and what discussion there is takes place ‘behind the screen’, Houwing said. ‘Local authorities talk about smart cities and general tracking, …

Before facial recognition tech can be used, it needs to be limited
5 years, 10 months ago

Before facial recognition tech can be used, it needs to be limited

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Our new research into the legal challenges posed by police use of facial recognition technology …

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