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  • techviral
  • 2018
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New Facial Recognition System Helps Trace 3000 Missing Children In Just 4 Days

In India, where disappearance of children is a common social issue, facial recognition technology has been useful in identifying and located many missing or displaced children. This breakthrough means that the technology can hopefully be applied to help ameliorate this issue, as well as in other areas such as law enforcement.

  • techviral
  • 2018
  • 5 min
  • Gizmodo
  • 2021
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CBP Facial Recognition Scanners Failed to Find a Single Imposter At Airports in 2020

Customs and Border protection used facial recognition technology to scan travelers entering the U.S at several points of entry in 2020, and did not identify any impostors or impersonators. This is part of a larger program of using biometrics to screen those who enter the country, which raises concerns about data privacy, who may have access to this data, and how it may be used.

  • Gizmodo
  • 2021
  • 5 min
  • BBC
  • 2021
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Facial recognition technology meant mum saw dying son

The ability of facial recognition technology used by the South Wales Police force to identify an individual based on biometric data nearly instantly rather than the previous standard of 10 days allowed a mother to say goodbye to her son on his deathbed. It seems to have other positive impacts, such as identifying criminals earlier than they otherwise might have been. However, as is usually the case, concerns abound about how this facial recognition technology can violate human rights.

  • BBC
  • 2021
  • 5 min
  • CNET
  • 2019
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Demonstrators scan public faces in DC to show lack of facial recognition laws

Fight for the Future, a digital activist group, used Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition software to scan faces on the street in Washington DC to show that there should be more guardrails on the use of this type of technology, before it is deployed for ends which violate human rights such as identifying peaceful protestors.

  • CNET
  • 2019
  • 4 min
  • OneZero
  • 2020
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Dr. Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, Deborah Raji — an Enduring Sisterhood of Face Queens

A group of “Face Queens” (Dr. Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, and Deborah Raji) have joined forces to do important racial justice and equity work in the field of computer vision, struggling against racism in the industry to whistleblow against biased machine learning and computer vision technologies still deployed by companies like Amazon.

  • OneZero
  • 2020
  • 7 min
  • Amnesty International
  • 2021
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR BAN ON THE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY FOR MASS SURVEILLANCE

Amnesty International released a statement detailing its opposition of widespread use of facial recognition technology for mass surveillance purposes based on its misuse and unfair impacts over Black communities and the chilling effect which it would create on peaceful protest.

  • Amnesty International
  • 2021
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