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ICE mined driver’s license photos for facial recognition – TechCrunch

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are using facial recognition software to trawl through millions of driver’s license photos provided by…

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China’s Alipay adds sought-after beauty filters to face-scan payments – TechCrunch

In China, striving for accuracy in a piece of facial recognition software isn’t enough. As Alibaba’s e-wallet affiliate Alipay has…

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Unregulated facial recognition technology presents unique risks for the LGBTQ+ community – TechCrunch

Carlos Gutierrez Contributor Carlos Gutierrez is deputy director and general counsel at LGBT Tech. It seems consumers today are granted ever-dwindling…

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Amazon defeated shareholder’s vote on facial recognition by a wide margin – TechCrunch

Efforts by shareholders to instruct Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology to government customers failed by a wide…

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3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone – TechCrunch

There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: from prosthetics, corneas, and firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge….

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Lawmakers say Amazon’s facial recognition software may be racially biased and harm free expression – TechCrunch

Amazon has “failed to provide sufficient answers” about its controversial facial recognition software, Rekognition — and lawmakers won’t take the…

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Five years and one pivot later, Trueface emerges with a promise for better facial recognition tech – TechCrunch

Shaun Moore and Nezare Chafni didn’t initially intend to develop a new standalone facial recognition technology, when they first got…

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Unbiased algorithms can still be problematic – TechCrunch

Creating unbiased, accurate algorithms isn’t impossible — it’s just time consuming. “It actually is mathematically possible,” facial recognition startup Kairos…

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Keeping artificial intelligence accountable to humans – TechCrunch

As a teenager in Nigeria, I tried to build an artificial intelligence system. I was inspired by the same dream…

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Amazon facial recognition software raises privacy concerns with the ACLU – TechCrunch

Amazon hasn’t exactly kept Rekognition under wraps. In late 2016, the software giant talked up its facial detection software in…