technology:facial recognition

This school scans classrooms every 30 seconds through facial recognition technology
▻https://www.techjuice.pk/this-school-scans-classrooms-every-30-seconds-through-facial-recognition-t

A high school in China has made a facial recognition technology system that scans the student’s behavior in the classroom. The facial recognition technology introduced in the school is recording facial expressions of all students while they are in their classrooms. The system scans the classroom every 30 seconds and recognizes seven different expressions such as neutral, happy, sad, disappointed, scared, angry and surprised. The system is called as“Intelligent Classroom Behavior Management (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #facial #étudiants #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #IntelligentClassroomBehaviorManagementSystem

Google launches video doorbell with facial recognition in UK
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/31/nest-hello-google-launches-facial-recognition-data-doorbell-uk-privacy-

Nest Hello promises to recognise friends and family at the door, but could provoke privacy concerns Google’s facial recognition video doorbell, the Nest Hello, is launching in the UK to challenge Amazon’s Ring. Initially released in the US in March, Nest Hello is the first of Google’s new home security product lineup to make it to the UK, ahead of its Nest Secure alarm system. Nest Hello is a £229 wifi-connected smart doorbell with a wide-angle camera that captures high definition HDR video (...)

#Google #Nest #Amazon #domotique #biométrie #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #facial #NestHello (...)

##sonnette

Police trial AI software to help process mobile phone evidence
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/27/police-trial-ai-software-to-help-process-mobile-phone-evidence

Move to use software capable of facial recognition prompts concerns over privacy and the introduction of bias Artificial intelligence software capable of interpreting images, matching faces and analysing patterns of communication is being piloted by UK police forces to speed up examination of mobile phones seized in crime investigations. Cellebrite, the Israeli-founded and now Japanese-owned company behind some of the software, claims a wider rollout would solve problems over failures to (...)

#Cellebrite #smartphone #BigData #algorithme #facial #biométrie

Amazon needs to come clean about racial bias in its algorithms
▻https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/23/17384632/amazon-rekognition-facial-recognition-racial-bias-audit-data

We shouldn’t be using unaudited facial recognition systems on public streets Yesterday, Amazon’s quiet Rekognition program became very public, as new documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California showed the system partnering with the city of Orlando and police camera vendors like Motorola Solutions for an aggressive new real-time facial recognition service. Amazon insists that the service is a simple object-recognition tool and will only be used for legal purposes. But even if we (...)

#Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #Rekognition #biométrie #facial #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance (...)

##ACLU

Sleepy pupils in the picture at high-tech Chinese school
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-surveillance-education/sleepy-pupils-in-the-picture-at-high-tech-chinese-school-idUSKCN1II123

High school students in one Chinese school may want to think twice before dozing off in class. Artificially intelligent cameras with facial recognition tools will be watching. The Hangzhou No. 11 Middle School has installed a “smart classroom behavior management system”, which captures students’ expressions and movements, analyzing them with big data to make sure they’re paying attention, media reported on Thursday. The “Big Brother” strategy underscores how AI and facial recognition tools are (...)

#Hikvision #CCTV #émotions #étudiants #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance

UK police use of facial recognition technology a failure, says report
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/15/uk-police-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-failure

Civil liberties group says systems used by Met and South Wales police are wrong nine times out of 10 Police attempts to use cameras linked to databases to recognise people from their face are failing, with the wrong person picked out nine times out 10, a report claims. The report from Big Brother Watch, published on Tuesday, warns that facial recognition technology turns innocent British citizens into “walking ID cards”. It says the technology, whereby computer databases of faces are (...)

#Met #CCTV #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #BigBrotherWatch

92% false positive rate for police facial recognition system.
▻http://www.statewatch.org/news/2018/may/wales-police-face-recog.htm

"A police force has defended its use of facial recognition technology after it was revealed that more than 2,000 people in Cardiff during the 2017 Champions League final were wrongly identified as potential criminals.
South Wales police began trialling the technology in June last year in an attempt to catch more criminals. The cameras scan faces in a crowd and compare them against a database of custody images.

As 170,000 people arrived in the Welsh capital for the football match between Real Madrid and Juventus, 2,470 potential matches were identified.

However, according to data on the force’s website, 92% (2,297) of those were found to be “false positives”.

South Wales police admitted that “no facial recognition system is 100% accurate”, but said the technology had led to more than 450 arrests since its introduction. It also said no one had been arrested after an incorrect match.

Facial recognition tech used by UK police is making a ton of mistakes
▻https://www.wired.co.uk/article/face-recognition-police-uk-south-wales-met-notting-hill-carnival

South Wales Police, London’s Met and Leicestershire have all been trialling automated facial recognition in public places. But a lack of legal oversight exists around the technology At the end of each summer for the last 14 years, the small Welsh town of Porthcawl has been invaded. Every year its 16,000 population is swamped by up to 35,000 Elvis fans. Many people attending the yearly festival look the same : they slick back their hair, throw on oversized sunglasses and don white flares. (...)

#CCTV #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #erreur #sport

Welsh police wrongly identify thousands as potential criminals
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/05/welsh-police-wrongly-identify-thousands-as-potential-criminals

South Wales force defends use of facial recognition technology at 2017 Champions League final A police force has defended its use of facial recognition technology after it was revealed that more than 2,000 people in Cardiff during the 2017 Champions League final were wrongly identified as potential criminals. South Wales police began trialling the technology in June last year in an attempt to catch more criminals. The cameras scan faces in a crowd and compare them against a database of (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #facial #sport #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance

A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes | TechCrunch
▻https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/17/facebook-gdpr-changes

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Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. It will ask people to review how Facebook applies data from the web to target them with ads, and surface the sensitive profile info they share. Facebook will also allow European and Canadian users to turn on facial recognition after six years of the feature being blocked there. But with a design that encourages rapidly hitting the “Agree” button, a lack of granular controls, a laughably cheatable parental consent request for teens and an aesthetic overhaul of Download Your Information that doesn’t make it any easier to switch social networks, Facebook shows it’s still hungry for your data.

The new privacy change and terms of service consent flow will appear starting this week to European users, though they’ll be able to dismiss it for now — although the May 25th GDPR compliance deadline Facebook vowed to uphold in Europe is looming. Meanwhile, Facebook says it will roll out the changes and consent flow globally over the coming weeks and months with some slight regional differences. And finally, all teens worldwide that share sensitive info will have to go through the weak new parental consent flow.

First up is control of your sensitive profile information, specifically your sexual preference, religious views and political views. As you’ll see at each step, you can hit the pretty blue “Accept And Continue” button regardless of whether you’ve scrolled through the information. If you hit the ugly grey “Manage Data Setting” button, you have to go through an interstitial where Facebook makes its argument trying to deter you from removing the info before letting you make and save your choice. It feels obviously designed to get users to breeze through it by offering no resistance to continue, but friction if you want to make changes.

Overall, it seems like Facebook is complying with the letter of GDPR law, but with questionable spirit. Sure, privacy is boring to a lot of people. Too little info and they feel confused and scared. Too many choices and screens and they feel overwhelmed and annoyed. Facebook struck the right balance in some places here. But the subtly pushy designs seem intended to steer people away from changing their defaults in ways that could hamper Facebook’s mission and business.

Making the choices equal in visible weight, rather than burying the ways to make changes in grayed-out buttons and tiny links, would have been more fair. And it would have shown that Facebook has faith in the value it provides, such that users would stick around and leave features enabled if they truly wanted to.

When questioned about this, Sherman pointed the finger at other tech companies, saying he thought Facebook was more upfront with users. Asked to clarify if he thought Facebook’s approach was “better,” he said “I think that’s right.” But Facebook isn’t being judged by the industry standard, because it’s not a standard company. It’s built its purpose and its business on top of our private data, and touted itself as a boon to the world. But when asked to clear a higher bar for privacy, Facebook delved into design tricks to keep from losing our data.

#Facebook #RGPD #Design

Facebook must face class action over facial recognition : U.S. judge
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-classaction/facebook-must-face-class-action-over-facial-recognition-u-s-judge-idUSKBN1H

A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully used a facial recognition process on photos without user permission. The ruling adds to the privacy woes that have been mounting against Facebook for weeks, since it was disclosed that the personal information of millions of users was harvested by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. U.S. District Judge James Donato ruled in San Francisco federal (...)

#Facebook #biométrie #procès #facial

These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos For A Massive Facial Recognition Database
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/04/16/huge-facebook-facial-recognition-database-built-by-ex-israeli-spies/#1174a0747f18

When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, he tried to describe the difference between “surveillance and what we do.” "The difference is extremely clear," a nervous-looking Zuckerberg said. “On Facebook, you have control over your information... the information we collect you can choose to have us not collect.” But not a single member of the committee pushed the billionaire CEO about (...)

#Verint #Facebook #biométrie #facial #Terrogence #procès #NSA #Face-Int

22 eerie photos show how China uses facial...
▻https://www.businessinsider.sg/how-china-uses-facial-recognition-technology-surveillance-2018-2

22 eerie photos show how China uses facial recognition to track its citizens as they travel, shop — and even use toilet paper There are 170 million surveillance cameras in China. By 2020, the country hopes to have 570 million – that’s nearly one camera for every two citizens. At the same time, China is a building a national database that will recognize any citizen withinthree seconds. Though that system probably won’t be unveiled for a number of years, facial recognition is widespread in (...)

#Alibaba #JD.com #SenseTime #Alipay #CCTV #biométrie #facial #voix #Islam #voyageurs #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance (...)

##voyageurs
##empreintes

Facebook is starting to tell more users about facial recognition
▻https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17058268/facebook-facial-recognition-notification-opt-out

Facebook users have been noticing a strange new notification in their News Feeds, letting them know about the platform’s increasingly comprehensive facial recognition features. Users with further questions are directed to a privacy page with more information and more detailed instructions for opting out of the system. Four different Verge staffers saw the notification in the past 24 hours, including one currently visiting Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. Facebook has used some form of (...)

#Facebook #algorithme #biométrie #BigData #facial #législation

AI surveillance cameras could soon identify...
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5401325/CCTV-cameras-soon-face-recognition-technology.html

AI surveillance cameras could soon identify faces in a crowd with 99 percent accuracy If you’re afraid that security cameras are watching your every move, things could soon get a lot worse. CCTV cameras will soon be outfitted with facial recognition technology that scans and identifies faces in public 24/7. The technology is being developed as part of a partnership between semiconductor giant Nvidia and security startup AnyVision. Nvidia’s graphics chips will be used to power the human (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #facial

In Your Face : China’s all-seeing state
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-42248056/in-your-face-china-s-all-seeing-state

China has been building what it calls “the world’s biggest camera surveillance network”. Across the country, 170 million CCTV cameras are already in place and an estimated 400 million new ones will be installed in the next three years. Many of the cameras are fitted with artificial intelligence, including facial recognition technology. The BBC’s John Sudworth has been given rare access to one of the new hi-tech police control (...)

#GPS #CCTV #biométrie #géolocalisation #facial #Islam #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance

The surveillance of the Uighurs : the future for China ?
▻https://www.foreignbrief.com/asia-pacific/china/surveillance-uighurs-future-china

China has expanded its surveillance of Uighur Muslims in the country’s western Xinjiang province. Examples of Beijing’s monitoring of Xinjiang’s ethnic minorities include a DNA database that has been compiled via blood samples, facial recognition software, GPS tracking mechanisms in cars, domestic military checkpoints and the confiscation of Uighur passports to prevent them from leaving China. According to a December 2017 Wall Street Journal article, the Chinese government announced over $1 (...)

#GPS #CCTV #biométrie #génétique #géolocalisation #facial #Islam #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance (...)

##militarisation

Facial recognition software easily IDs white men, but error rates soar for black women
▻http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/13/facial_recognition_software_is_better_at_white_men_than_black_women

Even with a representative data set to learn from, software gets worse the darker your skin Commercial AI is great at recognising the gender of white men, but not so good at doing the same job for black women. that’s the conclusion of a new study, “Gender Shades : Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification”, that’s compared gender classifiers developed by Microsoft, IBM and Chinese startup Face++ (also known as Megvii). The study found that all three services (...)

#Apple #Google #IBM #Microsoft #algorithme #Face++ #biométrie #facial #discrimination

##Face++

Chinese police are using facial recognition sunglasses to track citizens
▻https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16990030/china-facial-recognition-sunglasses-surveillance

The glasses are being used by officers in police stations to oversee travelers during the Lunar New Year China’s police have a new weapon in their surveillance arsenal : sunglasses with built-in facial recognition. According to reports from local media, the glasses are being tested at train stations in the “emerging megacity” of Zhengzhou, where they’ll be used to scan travelers during the upcoming Lunar New Year migration. This is a period of extremely busy holiday travel, often described as (...)

#algorithme #lunettes #biométrie #voyageurs #CCTV #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance

##voyageurs

Photo Algorithms ID White Men Fine—Black Women, Not So Much
▻https://www.wired.com/story/photo-algorithms-id-white-men-fineblack-women-not-so-much

Facial recognition is becoming more pervasive in consumer products and law enforcement, backed by increasingly powerful machine-learning technology. But a test of commercial facial-analysis services from IBM and Microsoft raises concerns that the systems scrutinizing our features are significantly less accurate for people with black skin. Researchers tested features of Microsoft and IBM’s face-analysis services that are supposed to identify the gender of people in photos. The companies’ (...)

#IBM #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #discrimination #facial #Microsoft

The end of road rage? A car which detects emotions | Business | The Guardian

▻https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/23/a-car-which-detects-emotions-how-driving-one-made-us-feel

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The potential for cars to tune into their driver’s emotions is being explored by manufacturers, who believe a car which understands feelings could make driving safer.

Researchers hope to integrate biometric sensors into cars, allowing the vehicle to understand when a driver is tired or stressed. It could then issue prompts or alerts, or potentially take over the wheel in extreme circumstances.

Cars would be able to combine facial recognition technology with sensors tracking pulse, breathing rate and sweat.

#automobiles #voitures #circulation_routière #sécurité_routière #véhicules_autopilotés #road_rage

Why Did Facebook Just Buy This Company That Verifies Government-Issued IDs ?
▻https://gizmodo.com/why-did-facebook-just-buy-this-company-that-verifies-go-1822355711

Facebook has acquired Confirm.io, a startup that verified government-issued identification for third-party businesses. In addition to ID cards, Confirm.io’s service also handled biometrics and facial recognition data. The three-year-old, Boston-based company announced the acquisition on its site, stating that it will shut down as Facebook slurps it up into its empire. TechCrunch first confirmed the news with Facebook. Facebook sent Gizmodo the same statement that it shared with other (...)

#Facebook #biométrie #facial #Confirm.io #FaceID

The NSA’s voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home
▻https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/22/16920440/amazon-echo-google-home-nsa-voice-surveillance

Are Amazon and Google doing enough to keep spies out ? Suppose you’re looking for a single person, somewhere in the world. (We’ll call him Waldo.) You know who he is, nearly everything about him, but you don’t know where he’s hiding. How do you find him ? The scale is just too great for anything but a computerized scan. The first chance is facial recognition — scan his face against cameras at airports or photos on social media — although you’ll be counting on Waldo walking past a friendly camera (...)

#Google #NSA #Amazon #Echo #Home #voix #FISA

How Google Arts and Culture’s Face Match A.I. Actually Works | Inverse
▻https://www.inverse.com/article/40177-google-arts-and-culture-technology

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That’s part of what made the viral Google Arts and Culture feature, allowing users to compare their faces with a work of art, so fun. It played up our natural vanity, for sure, but it also gave us a chance to test out what A.I. is capable of.

Some users took the opportunity to punk the A.I. to hilarious effect:

It sounds like an easy process, but in fact, there is a lot of learning that the machine has to do first. After identifying faces in an image, it may have to reorient or resize it for a better reading — we’ve all been in cases where a selfie taken from too close looks distorted from reality.

Then, once the A.I. has resized and reoriented the face, it creates a “faceprint,” a set of characteristics that uniquely identify one person’s face. This could include the distance between facial features, such as eyes, or shapes and sizes of noses.

Faceprints can then be compared with an individual photo or to databases of many images.

In the case of Google’s museum selfie feature, each selfie that is uploaded is compared with its database of over 70,000 works of art.

According to the Post, users currently have to opt into facial recognition on Google Photos (but not on Facebook).

But, by playing around with this selfie feature, that’s essentially what we’re doing, so we are actively consenting to making Google’s A.I. smarter.

#Google #Reconnaissance_faciale #Intelligence_artificielle #Digital_labour

China Uses Facial Recognition to Fence In Villagers in Far West
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/china-said-to-test-facial-recognition-fence-in-muslim-heavy-area

China’s state surveillance apparatus is trying out a new tool in one of its favorite test beds, the restive region of Xinjiang. The Muslim-dominated villages on China’s western frontier are testing facial-recognition systems that alert authorities when targeted people venture more than 300 meters (1,000 feet) beyond designated “safe areas,” according to a person familiar with the project. The areas comprise individuals’ homes and workplaces, said the person, who requested anonymity to speak to (...)

#biométrie #Islam #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #facial