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ForkLog 9 02.08.2022

New York to disclose records of facial-recognition use against activists

The New York Supreme Court has ordered the Police Department to disclose records of how law enforcement used facial-recognition technology against Black Lives Matter protesters.

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ForkLog 12 27.07.2022

Britain urged to ban facial recognition in shops

Rights groups have asked the UK's Information Commissioner’s Office to ban facial recognition of shoppers in supermarkets in southern England.

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ForkLog 20 06.07.2022

China develops AI to gauge loyalty of Communist Party members

Researchers in China have developed an artificial intelligence that "reads the minds" of Communist Party members and determines their loyalty.

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ForkLog 9 15.06.2022

China used anti-COVID infrastructure to thwart a protest

The Chinese authorities used the coronavirus-tracking infrastructure to disrupt a protest by bank depositors by turning their health code red.

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ForkLog 14 06.06.2022

In Australia, artificial intelligence will be trained to recognise child abuse in photographs

The Australian Federal Police and Monash University have asked people to share pictures of children to train artificial intelligence to identify child abuse in photographs.

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ForkLog 14 25.05.2022

Russia develops covert system to surveil people via social-media activity

Russia has developed a system of covert surveillance of people in public places, designed to assess the 'degree of danger a person poses to those around them.' The system has already attracted the interest of the security services, said Yuri Anoshko, head of the Radio-Technical Institute named after Academician Mints.

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ForkLog 8 25.05.2022

Clearview AI to offer facial-recognition technology to banks and schools

The notoriously controversial startup Clearview AI plans to expand its facial-recognition services beyond law enforcement to banks and the education system.

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ForkLog 7 19.05.2022

US lawmakers urge FTC to probe ID.me facial-recognition claims

American senators asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to review ID.me's activities. Lawmakers suggested that the firm misled the public about the capabilities of its facial recognition system.

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ForkLog 8 10.05.2022

Clearview AI to curb sales of facial-recognition data in the United States

The facial-recognition developer Clearview AI has agreed to permanently suspend the sale of its biometric database to private companies in the United States.

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ForkLog 8 19.04.2022

Intel Develops AI Tool to Analyse Students’ Emotions

Intel has developed an AI programme to analyse facial expressions and body language of school pupils and university students learning online, and to determine their emotional state.

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ForkLog 10 12.04.2022

EU to create a unified database for facial-recognition systems

The European Commission plans to create a vast database for facial recognition, to be shared with law enforcement agencies of EU member states.

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ForkLog 10 31.03.2022

Google to deploy AI to detect personal crises via search queries

Google will update the MUM machine-learning search model to detect a wide range of crisis-related queries about domestic violence, substance abuse, and suicide.

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