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Installed in the wake of recent high-profile mass shootings, controversial facial recognition systems that scan students’ faces could be the not-too-distant future for schools across America and beyond.
New documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal the most detailed picture yet of how the Orlando Police Department is using Amazon Rekognition, the tech giant’s facial recognition technology.
More than a century ago, a teenager named Abigail Roberson had her photo taken at a professional studio in upstate New York. The photo wasn’t particularly scandalous—Roberson is pictured from the shoulders up, looking away from the camera—but it achieved the 1890s version of virality and set off a legal debate about…
There continues to be a healthy debate on the use of facial recognition technology. But one school in Seattle has embraced it, saying it keeps staff and students safer. Plus it’s more convenient for parents.
WTF. The gains on this are minuscule, the potential for abuse staggering.
It would feel strange if a library started taking fingerprints of patrons who entered and exited just for the purpose of matching them against a state or federal database containing fingerprints of criminals.
Observations on the use of machine learning and facial inferences to classify people using inexplicable data.
The technology is unreliable, violates our privacy and exacerbates historical inequities, writes Kade Crockford.
Just beyond the automatic sliding doors of the Robert W. Van Houten Library, you’ll find shelves teeming with books, dissertations and literary journals, a front…