Tag Archives: Automated Facial Recognition

Facial recognition technology has drawn a number of criticisms throughout 2018, from concerns over privacy to bias and the high number of false positives. Metropolitan Police are back at it again with the divisive software this week, attempting to spot criminals amongst shoppers in London. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) …

Amazon’s facial recognition technology has drawn controversy during its development, with mounting concerns towards known bias in machine learning and privacy. With Amazon on the cusp of licensing its aptly named Rekognition tech to US law enforcement, employees are now speaking out against the effort, calling it “unethical” and “dangerous.” …

Despite its disastrous implementation throughout this year, the UK government and Metropolitan Police have set in motion plans to expand their efforts with real-time facial recognition in order to catch criminals. This has prompted concern from non-profit privacy advocate, Big Brother Watch, which is now crowdfunding in order to combat …

Facial recognition technology has seen some tremendous success across the globe, helping to catch criminals at high profile events as far as China. Despite its four years in the making, the UK’s effort seems a lot less reliable, however, yielding thousands of false positives during its pilot test last summer. …