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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI

The Verge

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Massachusetts on the verge of becoming first state to ban police use of facial recognition

The Verge

Massachusetts lawmakers this week voted to ban the use of facial recognition by law enforcement and public agencies in a sweeping police reform bill that received significant bipartisan support. Illustration by Alex Castro / Th. The bill, S.2963

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Clearview AI is closer to getting a US patent for its facial recognition technology

The Verge

The technology is allegedly less accurate when identifying people of color and women , potentially leading to false arrests when used by law enforcement agencies. Last year, the company said that its technology was used by over 2,400 police agencies — including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security — to identify suspects.

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Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition tagging program

The Verge

The move follows a lawsuit that accused Facebook’s tagging tech of violating Illinois’ biometric privacy law, leading to a $650 million settlement in February. US law enforcement agencies (alongside other government divisions) work with Clearview AI and other companies for facial recognition-powered surveillance.

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Apple reveals new efforts to fight child abuse imagery

The Verge

Once an alert is generated, it is reviewed by Apple and NCMEC before alerting law enforcement, providing an additional safeguard against the system being used to detect non-CSAM content. The accuracy of the matching system, combined with the threshold, makes it very unlikely that pictures that are not known CSAM pictures will be revealed.”.

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Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger

The Verge

“All the other biometrics that are becoming commonplace — face, fingerprints, iris — are all quite observable and visible from the outside,” Elizabeth Renieris, a law and policy researcher who focuses on data governance and human rights issues, told The Verge.

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Reviver is building a company one licence plate at a time

TechCrunch

It turned out to be a long conversation because it’s a sea change from what had been done before, and there were people that were a little nervous because, especially in government, nobody likes change.” The license plate is how law enforcement recognizes compliance with your vehicle,” Boston explains.