Facial Recognition

New AI-based facial recognition techniques are reducing false positive and false negative matches.

You can wear a mask, pull up a hood, avoid looking at a camera – but you cannot easily change how you walk.

Danger arises when law enforcement believes that AI models are retrieving certainties rather than generating likelihoods.

You can change a stolen password or credit card, but you can’t reset your face when your biometric data is breached.

If Meta moves forward with plans to integrate facial recognition technologies into its AI-enabled smart glasses, some of us have more to lose than others.

Canada urgently needs stronger privacy laws, ones that deal explicitly with facial recognition.

It is not feasible, nor indeed ethical, to run a facial recognition system against all images on the internet.

For body cameras to function as transparency tools, wrongdoing would have to be consistently penalized, highlighting the consequences of noncompliance.

Businesses using facial recognition cameras need customer consent – but a new ruling could open a loophole in the law.

It’s a common misconception that facial recognition technology captures and stores an image of your face.

Recent advances in computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity for facial recognition to apply to bears and other animals.

Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.

Before you scan your face, you might want to think twice about the risks.

The Privacy Commissioner found Kmart should have tried other options before facial recognition systems – and told customers what it was doing.

With a potential ban of state regulation of AI soundly defeated, states are continuing to take the lead on protecting people from the technology’s potential harms – for now.

Conservationists have to search rough terrain and thousands of automated photographs to find the elusive cats. Artificial intelligence can help them work more accurately and more efficiently.

Being identified was once only a possibility, now it is a near certainty.

A new study shows that simply knowing we are being watched can unconsciously heighten our awareness of other people’s gaze.

The trial is testing age verification, age estimation and age inference. All three options come with problems.

From facial recognition to delivery drones, cities around the UK are already trialling AI tech.

While AI promises to transform criminal justice by increasing operational efficiency and improving public safety, it also comes with risks around privacy, accountability, fairness and human rights.

Despite the ruling against Bunnings, Australian businesses can continue to collect your biometric information without your explicit consent by simply putting up signs.

While many people are comfortable with using facial recognition technology on their phone, they are less happy when it’s the government or private groups identifying them.

Views differ between owners and non-owners of smartglasses. But both groups agree the technology can help people.

AI impacts many things beyond the flashy chatbots – often in ways that quietly improve everyday processes.