Privacy and human rights organisations have filed legal complaints against controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI to data protection regulators in a coordinated action across five countries.\nThe complaints call for data protection regulators in the UK, France, Austria, Italy and Greece to ban the company’s activities in Europe, alleging that it is in breach of European data protection laws.\nClearview AI uses scraping technology to harvest photographs of people from social media and news sites without their consent, according to complaints filed with data protection regulators in the five countries.\nNo legal basis The complaints allege that Clearview has no legal basis for collecting and processing the data it collects under European data protection law.\nThe complaint urges the ICO to work with other data protection regulators to investigate the company’s compliance with data protection laws.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Shanghai Disneyland trial enhancement of facial recognition technology","slug":"shanghai-disneyland-trial-enhancement-of-facial-recognition-technology","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2021-05-27 14:30:50.813553","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Shanghai Disneyland is the latest Disney theme park to test facial recognition technology, after a similar trial at Magic Kingdom in Florida.\nStarting the trial operation yesterday (26th May), Shanghai Disneyland’s introduction of the technology comes after Walt Disney World tested facial recognition technology at Magic Kingdom’s park entrance from 23rd March and 23rd April.\nShanghai Disneyland updated its privacy policy on 26th May 26, with it now reading “we will utilize facial recognition technology to verify your identity by comparing such profile photo against your photo on your government ID.”The facial recognition trial is only available to Annual Pass holders, who can activate the service on Shanghai Disneyland’s official app.\nTo reassure guests, Disney advised “we will not store the photo of your government ID once your identity has been verified.”Similar to Walt Disney World in Florida, Shanghai Disneyland will use designated facial recognition technology test lanes.\nEarlier this year, Miral announced that Yas Island is on track to become a contactless destination through facial recognition technology called FacePass.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Metalenz Launches Orion(TM) Product Family of Dot Pattern Projectors Using Patented Metasurface Technology","slug":"metalenz-launches-orion-tm-product-family-of-dot-pattern-projectors-using-patented-metasurface-technology","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2021-05-27 14:30:48.491998","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Using Metalenz's patented metasurface technology, the Orion product family is a simplified and more efficient solution that is bound to displace refractive lensand diffractive element optical stacks with a single meta-optic.\nBoston, MA, May 27, 2021 --(PR.com)-- Metalenz’s simpler dot projectors enable 3D sensing to proliferate to all smartphones.\nMetalenz Inc., the pioneer in metasurface design and commercialization, today unveiled the Orion(TM) product family, the world’s simplest, high performance dot projectors.\nUsing its patented metasurface technology, the Orion product family is a simplified and more efficient solution that is bound to displace refractive lens and diffractive element optical stacks with a single meta-optic.\n“The size, complexity and cost has limited 3D sensing and face unlock to just the top tier cell phone companies.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Human Rights Commission calls for a freeze on 'high-risk' facial recognition","slug":"human-rights-commission-calls-for-a-freeze-on-high-risk-facial-recognition","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2021-05-27 14:30:47.717039","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Image: Getty ImagesThe Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has called for stronger laws around the use facial recognition and other biometric technology, asking for a ban on its use in \"high-risk\" areas.\n\"The use of AI in biometric technology, and especially some forms of facial recognition, has prompted growing public and expert concern,\" the report says.\nMust read: Facial recognition tech is supporting mass surveillance.\n\"Australian law should provide stronger, clearer, and more targeted human rights protections regarding the development and use of biometric technologies, including facial recognition,\" it wrote.\n\"Until these protections are in place, the Commission recommends a moratorium on the use of biometric technologies, including facial recognition, in high-risk areas.\"
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"AI is learning how to create itself","slug":"ai-is-learning-how-to-create-itself","publishDate":"2021-05-27 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2021-05-27 14:30:46.693677","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"In this sense, evolution is quite different from algorithms the way people typically think of them—as means to an end.\nIt’s this open-endedness, glimpsed in the apparently aimless sequence of challenges generated by POET, that Clune and others believe could lead to new kinds of AI.\nAsking AI to find and assemble those building blocks for us is a paradigm shift.\nIt’s saying we want to create an intelligent machine, but we don’t care what it might look like—just give us whatever works.\nEven if AGI is never achieved, the self-teaching approach may still change what sorts of AI are created.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Top Vendors: Aurora Computer Services, Ayonix corp., Collins Aerospace, FaceFirstInc. – The Manomet Current","slug":"top-vendors-aurora-computer-services-ayonix-corp-collins-aerospace-facefirstinc-the-manomet-current","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2021-05-27 14:30:46.132884","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"The latest Airport Facial Recognition Market report leverages a multidisciplinary approach to understand the development of this vertical during the forecast period 2021-2027.\nAirport Facial Recognition Market research process commences by analyzing the problem which enables us to design the scope for our research study.\nThe global Airport Facial Recognition Market report fulfills both macro and micro-economic factors to evaluate and forecast different market segments.\nThe report makes some significant proposition for another venture of Airport Facial Recognition Market Industry prior to assessing its plausibility.\nAbout UsInfinity Business Insights is a market research company that offers market and business research intelligence all around the world.
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"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Clearview AI hit with sweeping legal complaints over controversial face scraping in Europe","slug":"clearview-ai-hit-with-sweeping-legal-complaints-over-controversial-face-scraping-in-europe","publishDate":"2021-05-27 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2021-05-27 14:30:45.292359","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Privacy International (PI) and several other European privacy and digital rights organizations announced today that they’ve filed legal complaints against the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI.\nThe legality of Clearview AI’s approach to building its facial recognition service is the subject of a number of legal challenges globally.\nAuthorities in the UK and Australia opened a privacy probe last year into the company’s data scraping techniques.\nClearview also faced legal action in Vermont, New York and California.\nIn the meantime, you can request any data Clearview might have on you via the email and forms provided on its site and ask that your face be omitted from client searches.
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