#facial-recognition

#facial-recognition

AI models are filled to the brim with bias, whether that's showing you a certain race of person when you ask for a pic of a criminal or assuming that a woman can't possibly be involved in a particular career when you ask for a firefighter. To deal with these issues, Sony AI has released a new dataset for testing the fairness of computer vision models, one that its makers claim was compiled in a fair and ethical way.

The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump's controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party's leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed removals force would be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration.

Our automated systems are also getting better at catching these scams before they reach people. The expansion of facial recognition technology in particular more than doubled the volume of celebrity-bait scam ads we were able to detect and remove in testing. Today, there are nearly 500,000 public figures that are being protected from having their likeness misused in these scams.

Specifically, this bug prevented people from using the integrated camera with Windows Hello facial recognition. This stopped users from running a facial scan to sign in to the Camera app, any app or service that normally supports facial scanning via Windows Hello, or any other app or device that relied on the integrated camera. Also: Windows 11 lets you run a network speed test right from the taskbar now - how to try it

A ruling last week in Australia makes using facial recognition to combat fraud almost impossible and is the latest example of global regulators' growing disapproval of biometric technology in retail environments. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) determined that Kmart Australia Limited had violated the country's Privacy Act 1988 when it used facial recognition to prevent return fraud and theft.

An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents beneath their masks - a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance.Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, estimates he and a group of volunteers have publicly identified at least 20 ICE officials recorded wearing masks during arrests. He told POLITICO his experts are "able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible."

The suspect in the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Wednesday evening has been identified as Tyler Robinson, first reported by the New York Post, later confirmed by AP. During a Friday morning appearance on Fox & Friends, President Donald Trump revealed that a suspect in the political assassination was in custody, but admitted that he wasn't fully convinced of the accuracy. Kirk was shot in the neck during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

Like Mr. Williams, the culprit was Black, had a thick beard and mustache, and wore his hair in braids. Physically, the two men had little else in common. Mr. Williams was not only taller, he also weighed 230 pounds. The victim said the delivery man appeared to weigh about 160 pounds. But Mr. Williams still spent more than two days in jail in April.

"Sainsbury's decision to trial Orwellian facial recognition technology in its shops is deeply disproportionate and chilling. "Sainsbury's should abandon this trial and the government must urgently step in to prevent the unchecked spread of this invasive technology."

"LFR is a mass surveillance tool that treats all Carnival-goers as potential suspects and has no place at one of London's biggest cultural celebrations."

"Our passports have been secretly turned into mugshots. The government has taken all of our passport photos and secretly turned them into mugshots to build a giant, Orwellian police database."

Mobile Fortify takes someone's identity and then burrows into DHS's and other agencies' databases to surface much more information about the person than tools like Clearview AI.

The project was designed to train the company's AI model to "recognize and analyze facial movements and expressions, such as how people talk, react to others' conversations, and express themselves in various conditions."

Every image generator is unique, but I've spent enough time with them to recognize some patterns. There are certain things AIs are prone to mess up -- fingers on hands, overlapping elements, extremely fine details, etcetera.

Essex Police allegedly failed to adequately assess the potentially discriminatory effects of its live facial recognition technology despite claiming to have considered such issues in their equality impact assessment.