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A leaked user list from NTech Lab, a Russia-based facial recognition company, has more than 1,100 entities, including dozens of US companies.

The Democratic mayor’s bullishness and the resources at his fingertips stand to put New York at the forefront of an evolving national debate over safety, privacy and the racial and gender biases tied to the controversial software.

Hacked emails show the city only learned police were using technology developed by Clearview AI — which faces multiple suits claiming it violated the state’s biometrics privacy act — until after inquiries last year by the Sun-Times.

US Cops Arrest Man Over False Facial-Recognition Match. They Are Now Sued Robert Williams, a 43-year-old father in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, was arrested last year and accused of taking watches from a Shinola store after police investigators used a facial recognition search of the stores surveillance-camera footage that identified him as the thief. Updated: April 14, 2021 7:27 am IST Robert Williams is suing the Detroit Police Department after his wrongful arrest. A Michigan ma...

Robert Williams, 43, was arrested after being mistakenly identified as a shoplifter by Detroit police last June  Williams says his Michigan driver license photo - kept in a statewide image repository - was incorrectly flagged as a likely match to a shoplifting suspect  The American Civil Liberties Union has filed for damages against the city of Detroit, its police chief and a city detective The grave harm caused by the misuse of, and reliance upon, facial recognition technology, the lawsuit s...

The case could fuel criticism of police investigators’ use of a controversial technology that has been shown to perform worse on people of color.

minute read Share this article: The company’s controversial practice of collecting and selling billions of faceprints was dealt a heavy blow by the Privacy Commissioner that could set a precedent in other legal challenges. Canadian authorities have found that the collection of facial-recognition data by Clearview AI is illegal because it violates federal and provincial privacy laws, representing a win for individuals’ privacy and potentially setting a precedent for other legal ...

Detroit saw a summer of civil unrest that will be remembered for generations. Thousands of people hit the streets daily for months to protest police brutality and the treatment of Black people in the U.S. Tear gas coated the sky, rubber bullets flew, and hundreds of protesters were arrested. All the while, the novel coronavirus ran its course through Detroit, killing more people in the city than anything else aside from heart disease.   Also in 2020, the FBI said it foiled a plot involving mo...

TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images A Black man is suing a New Jersey police department after he says he was misidentified by facial-recognition software and wrongly spent 10 days in jail. The man, Nijeer Parks, said he had "never been" to the site of a shoplifting incident but was arrested after contacting the police to clear his name. About a year after the incident, New Jerseys attorney general, Gurbir Grewal, ordered the police to stop using facial-recognition technol...

» A Black man spent 10 days in jail after he was misidentified by facial recognition, a new lawsuit says A Black man spent 10 days in jail after he was misidentified by facial recognition, a new lawsuit says Martin CoulterDec 29, 2020, 17:59 IST Londons Kings Cross station was revealed to have trialled some facial recognition technology.TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images A Black man is suing a New Jersey police department after he says he was misidentified by facial-recognition software and wrongly ...