Tech & Society
Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019
An international wave of anti-surveillance sentiment pushed back against the proliferation of face recognition systems.
Personal Data
Tech & Society
Neighborhood Watchers: Reports charge Ring with mishandling customer data.
Smart doorbell maker Ring has built its business by turning neighborhoods into surveillance networks. Now the company is drawing fire for using private data without informing customers and sharing data with police.
Tech & Society
When Private Data is Not Private: Google trained Project Nightingale on private patient data.
Google spent the past year training an AI-powered health care program using personal information from one of the largest hospital systems in the U.S. Patients had no idea — until last week.
Tech & Society
No Escape From Surveillance
What does freedom mean when computers know your face and track your movements? Artificial intelligence will boost the power of surveillance, effectively making privacy obsolete and opening the door to a wide range of abuses.
Tech & Society
Public Access, Private Faces
One of the largest open datasets for training face recognition systems has its roots in a popular photo-sharing service. Companies that have used this data could find themselves liable for millions in legal recompense.
Machine Learning Research
Anonymous Faces
A number of countries restrict commercial use of personal data without consent unless they’re fully anonymized. A new paper proposes a way to anonymize images of faces, purportedly without degrading their usefulness in applications that rely on face recognition.
Tech & Society
Watching the Watchers
A growing number of nations use AI to track their citizens. A new report sheds light on who’s watching and how. “The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance” details which countries are buying surveillance gear, which companies are supplying it, and what technologies are most in-demand.