Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
… So does another growing area of biometric collection: face recognition. …
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
… If activated, it will transform faces captured by Meta's glasses into unique biometric signatures, commonly known as faceprints, and check each one against faceprints stored on the user’s phone—a database that’s currently configured to receive updates from Meta. …
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
… In November 2021, the company ended Facebook's photo-tagging system and said it would delete the face recognition templates of more than a billion users, framing the decision as “a company-wide move away from this kind of broad identification.” Meta said at the time that it needed to “weigh the pos… …
Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
… Many venues do not clearly disclose whether face recognition is being used, whether systems are run by police or private contractors, or whether biometric data is retained after events. “If facial recognition is being used for broad crowd scanning, that raises more serious concerns, given how often… …
This Company Has Figured Out a Way to Make Face ID Invisible
… The iPhone still has the largest camera cutout today, due to its Face ID biometric authentication system. Barring Google Pixel phones, the vast majority of Android phones don't offer a secure face authentication equivalent, so they don't need a bulky camera cutout. …
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
… Dolan's biometric surveillance is so extensive that a New York City police officer’s photo was added to a face-recognition database, and a child triggered an alert at one of Dolan’s properties. …
Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars
… The company says it does not use facial recognition or "other biometric identification technologies" to identify individuals. …
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
… If activated, the feature—known internally as NameTag—would let wearers identify people in front of them by matching captured faces against a biometric gallery sitting on the user’s device. …
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