“This is one of many important wins to come, and I think everyone really has to ask, ‘What kind of society do we want to live in? Do we want the face to be the final frontier of privacy?'”–Joy Buolamwini, founder and executive director of Algorithmic Justice League
Category: facial recognition
OK, we talk about facial recognition a lot here on the 4cast. We wouldn’t blame you if you suspected we were a little obsessed. But…
OPLIN 4Cast #703: Big tech denies facial recognition to police, but is that enough?
Posted in 4cast, and facial recognition
Last week, IBM sent shockwaves through the tech world when it announced that it was leaving the facial recognition market entirely. The reasons cited centered…
We’ve certainly covered facial recognition before, but it’s only in the past week or so that we’ve seen this intense, consistent level of news, development and controversy.
OPLIN 4Cast #677: Is emotion recognition technology a good idea?
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We’ve certainly covered facial recognition in the 4Cast before, but a newer subset of that tech is causing some major waves. Now, technology can not only match a name and a face, but it can also (in theory) determine how the person with that face is feeling. Called “affect recognition,” but more commonly referred to as “emotion recognition,” it may be even more controversial than it’s broader cousin, facial recognition.
OPLIN 4Cast #676: Face it: they’re watching
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I was stunned last week when it was announced that airport face recognition scans would soon include US citizens. The Department of Homeland Security quickly…
OPLIN 4Cast #605: The use of facial recognition is getting creepier
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We’ve covered facial recognition in the 4Cast before, but this week we’re taking another look, after Amazon’s facial recognition wrongly identified 28 members of Congress…
OPLIN 4Cast #593: Face it, this technology is in a state of chaos
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Ever since the iPhone came out with FaceID last year, facial recognition technologies have seemingly exploded into our newsfeeds. (Although I did wonder if we’d…
Facial recognition technology is coming to an airport near you. While this may seem like we’re now living in the future, this technology already exists in…