Last week, the ACLU of Massachusetts and the two largest teachers’ unions in the state—the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the American Federation of Teachers, Mass. Chapter—sent a letter to all 273 school superintendents in the state, asking the leaders to prohibit the...
A school district in New York has flipped the switch to activate a facial recognition system across hundreds of cameras in its school buildings, drawing sharp criticism from civil rights advocates and concerned parents and students. The move comes as school administrators...
In December 2019, the non-partisan federal government National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a landmark study presenting further evidence that facial recognition algorithms, across the board, are not ready for prime-time. The researchers found that face recognition algorithms perform more...
Face surveillance is dangerous when it works, and when it doesn’t. A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-partisan federal government research agency based at the US Department of Commerce, adds further data to a growing...
Since 2006, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has used face surveillance technology to try to weed out fraudulent license applicants. From almost day one, the RMV has allowed law enforcement agencies across Massachusetts and the United States to use its drivers...
Brown University student Amara Majeed awoke on a Thursday in late April to find that she had been falsely accused of perpetrating the Easter terror attacks in Sri Lanka. Her photo was disseminated internationally and she received death threats, even though she...
A new study examining a face surveillance program implemented by the South Wales police finds the system is wrong 50 percent of the time. The Financial Times reports: The facial recognition technology used by South Wales Police was developed by Japanese company...
On June 28, 2018, a man shot and killed five people at the Annapolis, Maryland newspaper the Capital Gazette. After law enforcement apprehended the suspect on the scene, they say, they used facial recognition technology to identify him as Jarrod Ramos. The...
The use of face surveillance technologies is fast becoming the norm in government and the private sector, but a new survey by the Brookings Institution shows agencies and companies deploying this technology are out of step with the desires of most Americans...
After spending years attacking cell phone privacy and encryption in the courts and in Congress, the FBI has used an Ohio man’s face to unlock his phone after obtaining a warrant to search his home. Since Apple announced its face recognition unlocking...