Oklahoma County Detention Center Adds Facial Recognition Technology
(KOCO, Jun 04, 2021)
The Oklahoma County Detention Center has added some new high-tech equipment. It’s called facial recognition technology and officials said it helps keep everyone a bit safer. Even in the last checkpoint before inmates are allowed outside, they use this facial recognition technology. “In other counties, other people have been released, and they weren't the ones supposed to be released and we don't want that happening here," Jessica Brown said. Because of that, Oklahoma County Detention Center officials are taking advantage of the latest technology out there. It sounds fancy, but it’s basically the same technology our phones use for Face ID. “It's incumbent among us to use this technology to make sure that society and the citizens are protected," Brown said. One of the purposes is to make sure an inmate is really who they say they are.
King County Ban On Police Use Of Facial Recognition Software Spotlights Local Movements Across US
(ZDNet, Jun 04, 2021)
Facial recognition opponents rejoiced this week after the local government of King County, Washington voted to ban local police from using the technology. The move was notable for a number of reasons. The ACLU of Washington said in a statement that the new King County ban on police use of facial recognition software was the first in the country to be county-wide and cover multiple cities. Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Adam Schwartz added that it was the most populous government body to institute a ban, with more than two million residents within its borders. The ban was also hailed among privacy advocates as a direct shot at Microsoft and Amazon, both of which have headquarters in King County's biggest city: Seattle.
Cities Are Weighing The Dangers And Benefits Of Facial Recognition
(NPR, Jun 04, 2021)
Another local government has voted to ban facial recognition technology - King County, Wash., which includes Seattle and its suburbs. NPR's Martin Kaste has this update on the national political movement to restrict the technology. MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: County council member Jeanne Kohl-Welles sponsored the legislation which bars county agencies, including the sheriff's office, from using software that IDs faces that just passed earlier this week. JEANNE KOHL-WELLES: I'll tell you. Having a 9-0 vote, a unanimous vote, conservative, liberal, whatever - that really was a strong statement.
NYPD’s Sprawling Facial Recognition System Now Has More Than 15,000 Cameras
(VICE, Jun 04, 2021)
The New York City Police Department has built a sprawling facial recognition network that may include more than 15,000 surveillance cameras in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, according to a massive crowdsourced investigation by Amnesty International. Thousands of volunteers examined Google Maps street view images of the three boroughs and logged the locations of both public and privately owned surveillance cameras. They found 3,590 in Manhattan, 8,220 in Brooklyn, and 3,470 in the Bronx. The highest concentrations of cameras appeared to be in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods like Brooklyn’s East New York, which was the city’s most surveilled neighborhood with 577 cameras. The project is still collecting data for Queens and Staten Island.
TikTok Privacy Policy Reveals That It Can Collect Biometric Data Of US Users
(Tech Shout, Jun 04, 2021)
Chinese short-video making app TikTok is now going to collect biometric data of users in the US, including faceprint and voiceprints, as the fate of the Bytedance-owned company remains in limbo in the country. TikTok has introduced a new privacy policy section for US users, saying it “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content.
Dictoc To Collect Biometric Data From US Users
(Press Stories, Jun 04, 2021)
House ” Applications Dictoc to collect biometric data from US users The social network has changed its privacy policy and now allows itself to collect some biometric data such as the face and voice prints of its users. The information may have gone unnoticed. On Wednesday, Dictoc changed its privacy policy and added its division “Image and Audio Info”, Opportunity for the company “Collect biometric identifiers And biometric information ”, And in particular “Facial prints and voice prints”, From content posted by users. In short, Dictoc can now automatically identify and collect “Biometric Identifiers and Biometric Information as defined by US Laws”. The company, contacted by American media Tech Crunch, has so far declined to comment, arguing that it would ensure upstream if a collection of biometric data was to take place. Consent of its users.
New York City Biometrics Law Takes Effect in July 2021
(JD Supra, Jun 04, 2021)
Following the municipal ban on the use of facial recognition technology in Portland, Oregon, New York City's more expansive "biometric identifier information" law, set to go into effect July 9, 2021, will ban the sale of biometric data but permit the use of biometric identifying technologies with posted notice to customers in "simple language" to be prescribed by forthcoming rules.
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(IBIA, Jun 04, 2021)
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