“It Should Be Illegal”: Use of Facial Recognition at Airports Draws Anger
By Eoin Higgins A boarding technology for travelers using JetBlue is causing controversy due to a social media thread on the airline’s use of facial…
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Facial Recognition Coming To Hotels, Making Check-In Easy But Creepier
By Technocracy News and Trends Hotels are being retrofitted from top to bottom into “smart hotels” where everything is controlled by apps, AI and robots….
Finger Vein Vending Machines And A Global Biometric Police Database
By MassPrivateI Gone are the days when you could use a “slug” to purchase a can of soda, because today’s vending machines will know who…
Law Enforcement Uses Facial Recognition To Identify Shoplifters
By MassPrivateI For those of you who still hold onto to the idea that America will never follow in China’s Big Brother footsteps, I give…
Artificial Intelligence Facial Recognition Is Now Becoming More Diverse And Inclusive
By WeAreChange Facial recognition is being rolled out across the planet at warp speed despite being riddled with errors. Luke Rudkowski and Jason Bermas cover…
MLB Going Full-Blown TSA: Teams Prepare To Scan Millions Of Fans’ Faces
By MassPrivateI I hope you enjoyed America’s favorite pastime, because by the end of this year nearly every Major League Baseball (MLB) team will be…
San Diego Has Been Turned Into A Massive Chinese-Style Public Surveillance Network
By MassPrivateI Can you imagine a city in the United States secretly creating a Chinese-style public surveillance network that can identify everyone? Can you imagine…
NEC Corporation to Conduct Iris Scans at the South by Southwest Film & Music Festival
By MassPrivateI In what can only be described as revolting, makers of facial and iris recognition cameras are setting up an exhibit booth at a…
Massive Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State
By Danny O’Brien Earlier this month, security researcher Victor Gevers found and disclosed an exposed database live-tracking the locations of about 2.6 million residents of…
Governments Must Face the Facts about Face Surveillance, and Stop Using It
By Hayley Tsukayama and Adam Schwartz It’s time for governments to confront the harmful consequences of using facial recognition technology as an instrument of surveillance….
ASU Law School Wants Cities Around the World to Use Facial Recognition
By MassPrivateI Arizona State University (ASU), which spent $307 million to renovate Sun Devil Stadium, has learned a lot about Smart City surveillance. ASU used facial…
Apple’s HomePod 2 and Google’s Nest Guard Take Spying on Your Family to the Next Level
By MassPrivateI Who needs Big Brother to spy on you in your home when Siri and Google will do it for them? Two recent stories prove…
Orwellian Smartphones Tracking Govt Employees Could Become the Pentagon’s New Employee Access Cards
By Aaron Kesel The government wants a phone for its employees that uses an algorithm to track their location, the way they talk, type and…
Walgreens, Nestlé, Coors And More Use Iris-Tracking Cameras To Spy On Shoppers
By MassPrivateI I hope you had a happy new year, “because I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” Gone are…