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Controversial FAA Bill Passes Senate, Promotes Digital IDs and Mobile Licenses, Facial Recognition Concerns Ignored
Controversial FAA Bill Passes Senate, Promotes Digital IDs and Mobile Licenses, Facial Recognition Concerns Ignored The US Senate has passed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization act, which enjoyed bipartisan support, with an overwhelming majority (88-4). The legislation includes a push to introduce digital ID and digital or mobile driver’s licenses, and will be considered […]
Big Brother Unchained: UK Government to Abolish Biometrics and Surveillance Safeguards As It Embraces Facial Recognition
Big Brother Unchained: UK Government to Abolish Biometrics and Surveillance Safeguards As It Embraces Facial Recognition “The lack of attention being paid to [public safeguards] at such a crucial time is shocking, and destruction of the surveillance camera code that we’ve all been using successfully for over a decade is tantamount to vandalism.” The United Kingdom […]
Britain Creating Facial Recognition Database of Everyone!
Britain Creating Facial Recognition Database of Everyone! Boris Johnson has emerged as a ruthless dictator. One must wonder how this man staying in power. There is obviously no politician who cares about his country or the future to dare even move for a no-confidence vote. When our computer has been projecting that the British pound […]
Documents Reveal Feds Are Excited To Create A Mass Surveillance Network
Documents Reveal Feds Are Excited To Create A Mass Surveillance Network A FOIA request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center revealed how excited the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) is about using CCTV cameras to create a national surveillance network. An NSCAI presentation titled “Chinese Tech Landscape Overview” discusses China’s facial recognition CCTV camera network […]
Despite Denials, RCMP Used Facial Recognition Program for 18 Years
Despite Denials, RCMP Used Facial Recognition Program for 18 Years NDP critic calls on government to explain why RCMP falsely denied using Clearview AI technology. Despite denials, the RCMP has been routinely using facial recognition technology since 2002, The Tyee has learned. And the software continues to be used in British Columbia, the RCMP confirmed […]
Leaked Reports Show EU Police Are Planning a Pan-European Network of Facial Recognition Databases
LEAKED REPORTS SHOW EU POLICE ARE PLANNING A PAN-EUROPEAN NETWORK OF FACIAL RECOGNITION DATABASES A POLICE INVESTIGATOR in Spain is trying to solve a crime, but she only has an image of a suspect’s face, caught by a nearby security camera. European police have long had access to fingerprint and DNA databases throughout the 27 countries […]
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition is Threatening Democracy
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition is Threatening Democracy We must take action and guard what little privacy remains before it’s too late. (TMU) — On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology. The letter was drafted by the digital privacy […]
Chicago Police Are Using a Facial Recognition Program That Scans Billions of Facebook Photos
Chicago Police Are Using a Facial Recognition Program That Scans Billions of Facebook Photos The end of privacy as we know it? (TMU) — Manhattan-based Clearview AI is collecting data from unsuspecting social media users and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) is using the controversial facial recognition tool to pinpoint the identity of unknown suspects, reads […]
Localism in the 2020s (Part 2) – Facial Recognition, Psilocybin and Beyond
Localism in the 2020s (Part 2) – Facial Recognition, Psilocybin and Beyond Contrary to popular opinion, I think a loss of faith in Washington D.C. and its institutions is entirely rational and healthy. Maintaining faith in something due to tradition or the fumes of hope won’t lead to anything productive, rather, it’s preferable to honestly […]
Beijing To Link Facial Recognition System With Social Credit Score In New Metro Security Checks
Beijing To Link Facial Recognition System With Social Credit Score In New Metro Security Checks Officials in Beijing will combine the country’s state-of-the-art facial recognition technology with a version of their controversial ‘credit system’ to speed up security checks in the city’s overcrowded metro system, according to HKFP. Long queues and commuters arguing with staff over […]
BigBrotherWatch: Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK
BigBrotherWatch: Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK At TruePublica we have written endlessly about the continued slow strangulation of civil liberties and human rights in Britain. We have warned about the rise of a techno-Stasi-state where technology is harnessed and used against civilians without any debate or indeed any real legal framework. We have alerted the public […]
Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology
Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology “The city is sending a bold statement that it won’t sit by idly while the dystopian technology further outpaces our civil liberties protections and harms privacy, racial and gender justice, and freedom of speech.” A display shows a facial recognition […]
Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy?
Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy? The recent Financial Times investigation revealed that Microsoft had collected discreetly a facial recognition database of some 10 million images of some 100,000 people. They apparently used it for facial recognition software. When the FT began investigating, Microsoft discretely deleted the database. The public dataset, called ‘MS Celeb,’ included […]
Orwellian Future: Facial Recognition & Mass Surveillance is Coming to U.S. Schools
ORWELLIAN FUTURE: FACIAL RECOGNITION & MASS SURVEILLANCE IS COMING TO U.S. SCHOOLS We are staring our Orwellian future right in the face. Beginning in New York, facial recognition is coming to schools in the United States and it’ll be switched on for testing next week. The dystopian future George Orwell warned about in his accidental historical […]
UK Cops Fine Pedestrian $115 For Avoiding Facial Recognition Camera
UK Cops Fine Pedestrian $115 For Avoiding Facial Recognition Camera A UK pedestrian was arrested and fined £90 ($115 US) after attempting to cover his face while passing a controversial facial recognition camera van on a East London street. The notorious London police vans scan the faces of passers-by and compare them to a database of wanted criminals. One man wasn’t […]
