petard Privacy activists spent a day on Capitol Hill scanning faces to prove that scanning faces should be banned Cory Doctorow
privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow
amazon Amazon testing 'Orville' biometric tech that scans your hands to pay at Whole Foods, stores will use it starting early 2020 Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Defeating Apple's Faceid's proof-of-life by putting tape over glasses' lenses Cory Doctorow
law Billions on the line as Facebook loses appeal over violating Illinois facial recognition law Cory Doctorow
corruption Detroit's police commissioner arrested at commissioners' meeting for demanding answers about secret meetings where facial recognition was planned Cory Doctorow
security "Just don't have a face": what it's like to opt-out of US airports' "optional" face recognition Cory Doctorow
security Political candidate's kids use his election flyers to fool his laptop's facial recognition lock Cory Doctorow
surveillance EU to create 350m person biometric database for borders, migration and law enforcement Cory Doctorow
surveillance American prisoners coerced or tricked into providing voice-prints for use in eternal, secret, unchecked surveillance Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Generative adversarial network produces a "universal fingerprint" that will unlock many smartphones Cory Doctorow
security Forensics company advises cops not to look at seized Iphones, to avoid facial-recognition lockouts Cory Doctorow
biometrics AI system looks at faces and rates them for responsibility, happiness, aggression, attractiveness, weirdness, and emotional stability Mark Frauenfelder
security Screwdriver optional: fingerprint lock broadcasts its unlock code over Bluetooth (and the steel is garbage) Cory Doctorow
