WA Licence Photos To Be Sent East For National Facial Recognition Database
(WA Today , Jul 02, 2020)
The licence photos, names, addresses and signatures of West Australians will soon be available to Commonwealth and interstate investigators through a national facial recognition system.
San Diego Police Accessed Smart Streetlights Camera Footage To Spy On Black Lives Matter Protests
(Brink Wire, Jul 02, 2020)
What started as a way to increase public safety in San Diego has turned into a mass surveillance tool to gather evidence against Black Lives Matter protesters.
A report finds the local police department collected footage from smart streetlights across the city to look for evidence linked to vandalism and looting with the hopes of making arrests.
A Facial Recognition Giant Refuses to Share Details About Its Algorithm Dataset
(One Zero , Jul 02, 2020)
The South Wales Police have been using live facial recognition since 2017 and claim to be the first department to make an arrest in the United Kingdom with the technology. Officers have surveillance cameras mounted on top of a large white van; the cameras record pedestrians and try to figure their identities.
Disney Is Using Deepfakes and Facial Recognition To Bring Back Dead Actors
(Brink Wire, Jul 02, 2020)
Disney has unveiled its newest technology, deepfakes and facial recognition, to resurrect and revive dead actors and let fans see their stunts once more, The Verge and Screenrant reported.
Why Smart Cities Are No Answer To Covid-19
(News Click, Jul 02, 2020)
It has been five years since India’s ambitious Smart Cities Mission (SCM) was announced. It is fair to say that not much progress has been made. Currently, less than half the cities have even been started and in a third of chosen cities not a single project has been completed. But, interestingly, Covid-19 and the subsequent problematisation of Indian urbanism has given them renewed impetus, support and justification.
Microsoft Needs To Stop Selling Surveillance To The NYPD
(Fast Company, Jul 02, 2020)
Microsoft’s decision not to sell facial recognition to the police means nothing if the company won’t stop selling the Orwellian Domain Awareness System to the New York Police Department.
Da Nang To Install Smart Cameras At High Schools
(Vietnam Plus, Jul 02, 2020)
The central city of Da Nang has approved a project installing smart cameras at local senior high schools, its Department of Education and Training said on July 2.
Dozens Of Advocacy Groups Push For Congress To Ban Facial Recognition Technology
(MSN, Jul 02, 2020)
Nearly 40 civil rights, privacy and technology groups sent a letter to Congressional leadership Thursday pushing for a federal moratorium on facial recognition technology.
The organizations - including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Algorithmic Justice League and the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology - called on Washington to pass legislation on the issue, suggesting the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act introduced introduced last week.
Larry Magid: Facial Recognition Loses Support As Bias Claims Rise
(Mercury News, Jul 02, 2020)
Following the lead of San Francisco, Boston and several other cities, Detroit is poised to end a contract with a company that provides facial recognition technology to its police department. And it’s not just cities that are backing away from the technology. In the wake of protests for racial justice, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon are now denying police departments access to their facial recognition technology.
Easthampton Is The Latest Massachusetts Community To Pass A Municipal Ban On Facial Recognition Technology
(Mass Live, Jul 02, 2020)
The City of Easthampton on Wednesday voted to ban the municipal use of facial recognition technology, now joining six other Massachusetts municipalities; Boston, Springfield, Cambridge, Northampton, Brookline and Somerville, which have all passed bans over the last 12 months.
Lawmakers Call For More Transparency In Health Agency’s Pandemic Data Collection Practices
(Washington Post , Jul 02, 2020)
The City of Easthampton on Wednesday voted to ban the municipal use of facial recognition technology, now joining six other Massachusetts municipalities; Boston, Springfield, Cambridge, Northampton, Brookline and Somerville, which have all passed bans over the last 12 months.
Touchless Transformation – Creating A New, Safer And Seamless Customer Experience, Post COVID-19
(NEC, Jul 02, 2020)
Our customer experience platform provides the ability to validate an individual’s identity using pre-enrolled or opted-in identity information, for example, from a driver’s license or a passport. Once their identity is validated, they have the option to leverage their digital identity by accessing their personal profiles, which is fully encrypted and under the user’s control, for contactless permission-based interactions.
