Sentences with phrase «use of facial recognition»

The use of facial recognition to unlock a phone has been around in the Android world for more than a year, and reactions have been mixed.

... use of facial recognition to unlock its iPhone X may open the gates for developers champing at the bit to bring the technology to the Android world.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center and several other consumer groups plan Friday to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission asking for an investigation into the network's use of facial recognition for privacy concerns.

EPIC and the consumer groups said on Friday that Facebook's use of facial recognition tools also violates terms of the 2011 settlement.

«D.C. Circuit Won't Fix Deeply Flawed Ruling in EPIC's Case Against Presidential Election Commission Main EPIC, Consumer Groups to Urge Federal Trade Commission to Investigate Facebook's Use of Facial Recognition»

(Reuters)- A civil rights group and some consumer groups said on Friday they would file a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Facebook Inc's use of facial recognition techniques threaten users» privacy.

«EPIC, Consumer Groups to Urge Federal Trade Commission to Investigate Facebook's Use of Facial Recognition Main EPIC Comments to UN Highlight Privacy Flaws in US Surveillance, Consumer Protection»

EPIC and a coalition of consumer groups have filed a complaint with the FTC, charging that Facebook's use of facial recognition techniques threaten user privacy and «in multiple ways» violate the 2011 Consent Order with the Commission.

«Congress Launches Caucus on Artificial Intelligence Main UPDATE - EPIC, Consumer Groups Urge FTC to Investigate Facebook's Use of Facial Recognition»

Episode one of the Smart Dust Podcast discusses autonomous vehicles; how cryptocurrencies are changing business; China's use of facial recognition to stop jaywalkers in their tracks, and more.

Highlights of the Norwich leg include All That Is Solid (2015), a recent film by John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison concerning the transience and impossibility of capturing the unrecorded voice and the undocumented past; Spirit is a bone (2014), portraits of Moscow citizens by artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin created through the use of a facial recognition system recently developed in Russia for public security and border control surveillance; as well as a series of posters that reproduce on a 1:1 scale a scene from Ryan Gander's studio in which a still life has been constructed from research material on the subject of «The Still Life».

By going to PlayerBlock.com, users can search the database based on Name, Phone Number (including mobile) and now even with photographs through the use of its Facial Recognition Technology Software.

This is certainly the first mass consumer use of facial recognition.

Texas and Illinois are the only states that have passed laws regulating commercial use of facial recognition.

These concerns will be amplified with the «internet of things» that will track our physical objects and the increasing use of facial recognition software.

Wal - Mart is testing the use of facial recognition software to support loss prevention efforts by scanning shoppers as they enter the store and cross referencing the images with a database of alleged shoplifters.

June 2011 — EPIC files another complaint to the FTC, focused on Facebook's use of facial recognition technology to automatically tag users in photos uploaded to its platform

Starting this week, the social giant will ask users to actually agree to those new terms, and in the EU it will finally prompt users to opt in to the company's use of facial recognition software, which Facebook hasn't used in Europe because of regulations.

April 6 (Reuters)- A civil rights group and some consumer groups said on Friday they would file a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Facebook Inc's use of facial recognition techniques threaten users» privacy.

Facebook is also facing a class action lawsuit in the U.S. over its use of facial recognition.

There are some genuinely good uses of facial recognition: Ann Cavoukian, the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, came up with one that's privacy - preserving and fairly insensitive to false positives, in cooperation with the casinos of Ontario.

The American Federal Trade Commission has published a staff report entitled Best Practices for Common Uses of Facial Recognition Technologies [PDF].

Not exact matches

Barry Pellas, who oversees tech strategy and the development of strategic assets for digital transformation firm PointSource, points out that Amazon certainly could be using facial recognition to individually identify customers in its new high - tech store in Seattle, but does not.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

The letter also notes concerns around the accuracy of the facial recognition technology and the ethics of the technology's use with police body cameras.

A company that makes body cameras used by police forces across the country is weighing the benefits of adding facial recognition technology to the cameras.

That means authorities can only currently identify 10 per cent of offenders using the AI facial recognition system.

Shares in AMS, which provides the facial recognition technology used in Apple's iPhones, jumped 7 percent after Apple surprised the market with solid iPhone X sales, confounding fears of a much weaker performance.

The iPhone X has a new design, better camera system, and a pair of front - facing cameras, which are used to unlock the phone using facial recognition.

A new crop of startups are using facial - recognition software to uncover consumers» true reactions

While the iPhone X is controversial for a number of reasons — Face ID in place of Touch ID, the lack of a home button, the ability to incorporate «animojis,» where emojis use facial recognition instead of the traditional emojis we've grown to love — what really got people talking was the $ 999 price tag for the bare - bones model (a maxed out, 256 GB model will run you a cool $ 1,149).

Until last week, Facebook had in fact not been using facial recognition in Europe for the last five years — at least, not on the faces of its users.

«We're not only developers of one of the world's best facial - recognition technologies but can also create products using our vast experience in wider areas.»

Two Sigma is reportedly experimenting with deep learning, a process that mimics the activity of neurons and was used to produce Amazon's «Alexa» robot, as well as Facebook's facial recognition system.

China is setting up a vast surveillance system that tracks every single one of its 1.4 billion citizens — from using facial recognition to name and shame jaywalkers, to forcing people to download apps that can access all the photos on their smartphones.

Facial - recognition technology is already deployed in retail outlets of all sorts and its use will radically increase in coming years.

Moments uses facial recognition technology, which was developed by Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab, a group of 50 researchers led by Yann LeCun, an expert in a type of machine learning called deep learning.

Creativity pick of the day: In Apple's latest ad, a teenager who uses facial recognition to open her iPhone X discovers a superhero - like capacity to unlock everything around her with a mere glance.

We've had mixed results using facial recognition on other phones, but Mark Gurman of Business Insider says the system will be «quicker, more secure, and more accurate» than Touch ID.

Alibaba launched Hema, its digitized physical supermarket chain where shoppers use a mobile app for online orders and in - store purchases of groceries or freshly prepared foods, as well as research products while shopping and pay digitally or with facial recognition.

A surveillance company founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer has been using Facebook, YouTube and other social networks to build a massive facial recognition database — and is just one of many companies doing so.

In a statement yesterday, they have alleged that police officers are using facial recognition to scan protesters» faces against a database of outstanding warrants to try to make arrests.

Cargill is backing an Irish startup that uses facial recognition software to help increase the productivity of dairy cows.

Dr Bawumia, last year, produced a document which he said was a copy of the Togolese register and claimed that having used the biometric facial recognition technology, it was realised that there were some 76,000 persons who existed on Ghana's register of voters as well as that of Togo.

James Risen and Laura Poitras report that the NSA has been collecting «millions of images per day» for use in facial recognition tracking of suspects.

«To really be involved in big data you need a multiple skill set, including an understanding of optimization theory and of algorithms similar to those used in facial recognition to find [relevant] patterns by knowing which data to extract.»

The app uses a phone's camera and facial recognition technology to measure the position of the brush relative to the mouth.

Dubbed the Marauder's Map after the magical map used by Harry Potter, the system takes security camera footage and analyses it using an algorithm that combines facial recognition, colour matching of clothing, and a person's expected position based on their last known location.

Because of increased use of CCTV, images captured on mobile phones and automatic face recognition technology, the comparison of facial images to identify suspects has become an important source of evidence.

Using a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, researchers discovered that individuals who showed more brain activity per unit of dopamine showed better facial recognition.