Who Owns Your Face? The Fight to Regulate Facial Recognition Technology
This week, Facebook rolled out a new service called Moments, which organizes your photos based on date, time, and facial recognition technology. It then lets you "sync" your photos with your friends so...
View ArticleSuper Facial Recognition: A New Reality for Police
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.You may have heard of prosopagnosics — people who suffer from "face blindness," in which they lack the ability to distinguish between human...
View ArticleThe Scary Truth About Facial Recognition Tech
On Wednesday, Apple unveiled their new products and features, including the iPhone X, which comes with face ID technology. Clare Garvie, associate with the Center on Privacy & Technology at...
View ArticleThat Bridge Is Watching You
The license-plate cameras at some river crossings in New York City aren't just keeping track of how much you owe in tolls. They're trying to decipher your identity.Earlier this year, the MTA began...
View ArticleBacteria Extinction, Facial Recognition, Solar Probe. August 3, 2018, Part 2
Long before we walked the Earth, bacteria took it over. They’re in every ecosystem on the Earth, and researchers have hopes to someday find them on other planets. The tiny cells have even helped make...
View ArticleImmigrant Groups Have a Special Reason to Oppose Amazon's Move
Immigrant rights groups in New York are outraged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement met with Amazon over the summer to discuss its facial recognition surveillance software, Rekognition. The...
View ArticleSan Francisco Banned Facial Recognition. Should New York?
In light of San Francisco's ban on the use of facial recognition technology, Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) at the Urban Justice Center,...
View ArticleA New Report Highlights How the New York Police Department Uses Facial...
The New York Police Department manipulates photos to get facial recognition hits in order to identify suspects or find a lead in a case. According to a report from the Georgetown Center on Privacy and...
View ArticleFacial Recognition Scans on the Rise
If you were at an airport during the Fourth of July holiday, there’s a chance you saw a new technology as you were checking in: facial recognition scans. The Department of Homeland Security has said...
View ArticleWhen Tech Companies Empower ICE
WNYC investigative reporter George Joseph and Albert Fox Cahn, Executive Director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project at The Urban Justice Center, talk about reports into how various tech...
View ArticleJustice Department and Eric Garner; 2020 Candidates Gather Steam (And Funds);...
Coming up on today's show:Katie Benner, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times where she covers the Justice Department, talks about the Justice Department's decision not to bring...
View ArticleHow AI Is Influencing Decisions In Police Departments And Courtrooms. Sept...
Facial recognition technology is all around us—it’s at concerts, airports, and apartment buildings. But its use by law enforcement agencies and courtrooms raises particular concerns about privacy,...
View ArticleFacial Recognition, Hummingbird Vision, Moon Lander. June 19, 2020, Part 2
Protests Shine Light On Facial Recognition Tech ProblemsEarlier this month, three major tech companies publicly distanced themselves from the facial recognition tools used by police. IBM CEO Arvind...
View ArticleSciFri Extra: A Pragmatic Wishlist For AI Ethics
Earlier this month, three major tech companies publicly distanced themselves from the facial recognition tools used by police: IBM said they would stop all such research, while Amazon and Microsoft...
View ArticleAir Conditioning, Face Recognition Neurons. Oct 8, 2021, Part 2
The Hot And Cold Past Of The Air ConditionerIn the Northeast, the leaves have started changing colors, heralding the season of pumpkins, sweaters, and the smell of woodsmoke. But in some parts of the...
View ArticleWhy Adams Wants to Expand Facial Recognition Tech While Other Cities Are...
As part of his Blueprint to End Gun Violence, Mayor Adams wants to expand the use surveillance technologies, like facial recognition software, to track down potential suspects. Albert Fox Cahn, founder...
View ArticleThe Role of AI in the Russia-Ukraine War
A powerful Russian drone with AI capabilities has been spotted in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine has employed the use of a controversial facial recognition technology. Will Knight, senior writer for WIRED...
View ArticleNJ Legal Rights & NYPD's Facial Recognition Technology
Alexander Shalom, senior supervising attorney and director of Supreme Court advocacy at the ACLU-NJ, talks about the implications of a case in Hudson County, NJ, where a suspect was identified using...
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