Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge

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We take a look at another case of facial recognition technology getting it wrong in the land of law enforcement.

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Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 16:55:40 +0000

Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity-proofing company ID.me for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me.

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“Ethnicity recognition” tool listed on surveillance camera app store built by fridge-maker’s video analytics startup

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 23:37:51 +0000

A video analytics startup has built an app store for unproven facial recognition tools that can be loaded onto surveillance cameras.

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Facebook sued for siphoning facial recognition data without consent

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:12:18 +0000

The suit alleges that Facebook’s now-defunct photo-tagging feature illegally collected data about Texans, including non-Facebook users.

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IRS abandons facial recognition plans for online services

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:19:35 +0000

After multiple objections, the IRS is abandoning plans to integrate facial recognition tech into its online services.

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Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:48:02 +0000

It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/A15DxfJxLcc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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