CBP’s Body-Worn Camera Rules Collide with Consumer AI Glasses
(Biometric Update, Aug 08, 2025)
In late 2024, Harvard students AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio publicly demonstrated how I‑XRAY was used to livestream from the glasses (via Instagram) to a computer program. The system ran facial recognition using PimEyes, then pulled personal information (names, addresses, phone numbers) from public sources and delivered that information back through a phone app in seconds.
Watch My Face Home Depot’s Self-Checkout Move Is Blasted As ‘Illegal’ By Shoppers Who Say It’s a Question of Consent
(The Sun U.S., Aug 08, 2025)
The company's use of facial recognition technology has sparked outrage and a new lawsuit over what some are calling a blatant violation of privacy rights.
Facial Recognition Technology Discriminates Against People of Colour
(The Guardian, Aug 08, 2025)
These systems violate our right to privacy, our rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression, and to equality and non-discrimination.
How States Are Placing Guardrails Around AI in the Absence of Strong Federal Regulation
(Kiowa County Press, Aug 08, 2025)
A pathbreaking study by computer scientists Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru found that facial recognition software poses significant challenges for Black people and other historically disadvantaged minorities. Facial recognition software was less likely to correctly identify darker faces.
Mizoram Launches Biometric Enrolment for 33,000 Refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh
(The Economic Times, Aug 08, 2025)
The official said, “Serchhip district administration first launched the biometric enrolment drive for the refugees on July 30 and subsequently other districts initiated the biometric enrolment process. Around 11,000 refugees’ biometrics and biographic data were registered”.
