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The article explores the proposal to deploy real-time facial recognition and biometric surveillance for crowd monitoring at the World Cup in the USA, highlighting debates on public safety versus privacy concerns.
A security researcher discovered that Meta's Stella companion app for smart glasses (v273.0.0.21) contains a fully assembled, functional facial recognition pipeline—including three on-device models, a biometric embedding database, and a notification system—that is dormant on stock accounts but operable when invoked directly. The pipeline can detect faces, generate 2048-dimension embeddings, and fire 'Person Recognized' notifications, raising significant privacy concerns even though Meta has not been observed activating it for regular users.
A lawsuit argues that Amazon's Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces without consent via the Familiar Faces feature, drawing criticism from the EFF and Senator Ed Markey.
Amazon faces a class action lawsuit over its Ring doorbell's Familiar Faces facial-recognition feature, alleging it stores images of passersby without consent, reigniting privacy concerns.
The UK Home Office plans to use AI facial estimation technology to assess the age of asylum seekers, aiming to detect adults posing as minors. The technology will be trialled from 2025 with a £322,000 contract, but critics warn of safeguarding risks.
Headway, a popular online therapy platform, will require clients and providers to undergo biometric facial scanning for identity verification, with no opt-out possible except leaving the platform, raising significant privacy concerns.
A security researcher built a facial recognition proof-of-concept using consumer AR glasses, demonstrating that invisible capture, commoditized databases, and real-time lookup remove the friction that previously protected privacy.
Yoti's age verification process reportedly shares users' facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties, raising privacy concerns.
Nevada man Jason Killinger was arrested after a casino's AI facial recognition falsely identified him as a trespasser. Police ignored his valid ID and obvious physical differences, insisted on the AI's conclusion, and arrested him. Only fingerprint analysis proved his innocence. The incident reveals the problem of law enforcement blindly trusting AI when it makes mistakes.
This paper presents a multimodal emotion recognition module for proactive conversational agents, using facial recognition and linguistic analysis. A user study with 20 participants reveals a 'poker face' effect where visual cues are unreliable, while linguistic analysis proves more accurate; the study also shows agents can elicit emotions through conversational adaptation.
Madison Square Garden bans lawyer John Scola after he sued the arena on behalf of a cop injured at a boxing match, highlighting the venue's continued use of facial recognition to enforce legal blacklists and raising privacy concerns.
London's Metropolitan Police will deploy live facial recognition at a protest for the first time, scanning faces of attendees amid controversy over selective enforcement and privacy concerns.
An article exploring the overlooked issue of adult content creators' bodies being used without consent in deepfake porn, highlighting how generative AI and nudify apps exacerbate the problem and threaten their livelihoods.