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The ACLU of Massachusetts is releasing an online toolkit for criminal defense attorneys to force prosecutors to disclose whether police used surveillance technologies like facial recognition, license plate readers, and stingrays against defendants, aiming to expose secret state surveillance in court.
An investigation into the growing business of selling AI technologies to police departments, including facial recognition, chatbots, and automated report-writing tools, and the potential consequences for civil liberties and policing practices.
Bruce Schneier examines the rise of AI-powered surveillance systems that can track and instantly penalize minor infractions, warning of chilling effects on personal freedoms and democracy, with examples from China and growing global adoption.
A Guardian op-ed warns that AI-powered surveillance systems are becoming supercharged, capable of tracking public and private activities with real-time enforcement, which could chill social progress and democracy.
A new report from activist groups documents the rapid expansion of surveillance infrastructure through partnerships between tech companies and federal agencies, including facial recognition, social media scraping, and deportation tools, raising concerns about authoritarian control and democratic erosion.
Google Home is getting an update that improves facial recognition by using clothing and body size to identify people, and can now recognize specific sounds like dog barking or alarms in video event descriptions.
Madison Square Garden compiled a dossier on activists who criticized its use of facial recognition, including their tweets and personal information, which was exposed in a data breach.
The UK Home Office plans to deploy facial age estimation AI to assess the age of asylum seekers, despite internal tests showing the technology frequently misidentifies children as adults and exhibits significant racial bias, particularly against Sub-Saharan Africans.
Roblox is implementing video selfie age estimation to verify users' ages, as a demo showed kids could not fool the system. The company reports a drop in daily users after rolling out age checks but stands by the measures.
Jalil Richardson of North Carolina spent over 50 days in jail after Jacksonville police wrongfully arrested him based on an AI facial recognition match with an 85% confidence level, despite his alibi being hundreds of miles away at work.
Robert Dillon is suing Florida police for wrongful arrest after a facial recognition system gave a 93% match on a low-quality image, despite evidence he was 300 miles away. The lawsuit claims police relied on the flawed AI instead of conducting a proper investigation.
Jalil Richardson was wrongfully arrested and jailed for months after AI facial recognition technology misidentified him at 85% accuracy as a suspect in a stolen vehicle case, leading to his loss of job, home, and custody of his children. Charges were dropped only after his attorney provided proof he was 400 miles away, highlighting concerns about racial profiling and over-reliance on AI in law enforcement.
Meta removed unreleased facial recognition code from its Meta AI app after WIRED revealed it was embedded in the app, despite previously denying the feature's existence.
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.