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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 challenges to the controversial technology. A joint investigation of privacy authorities led by the ...
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 more than a dozen men planning to kidnap and possibly kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; the Detroit Polic...
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 Jersey's attorney general, Gurbir Grewal, ordered the police to stop using facial-recognition technology. A Black man is suing a New Jersey police department after he says he spent 10 days in jail aft...
» 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 London's King's 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 spent 10 days in jail. The man, Nijeer Parks, said he had "never been" to the site of a shopliftin...