The Iranian authorities are considering a new way to further control the wearing of the veil by women in public spaces: facial recognition applied to CCTV cameras. The project is controversial and seems technically and legally impossible. Iran is considering pushing the enslavement of women one step further. Several Iranian media have relayed a particularly … Read more
There is a common perception that people with autism cannot recognize the emotions of others and have little idea how effectively they do so. But autistic adults are only slightly less accurate at reading people’s facial emotions compared to their non-autistic peers, new research from Australia has found. Recent research published in two articles in … Read more
the essential For months, Ukraine has been trying to inform the Russian populations about the reality of the war in their country. Today, the forces in place sometimes use facial recognition via the ClearviewAI software to achieve their ends. “We use artificial intelligence to search for accounts of dead Russian soldiers on social networks”. Thus … Read more
Tay. It was the name of a chatbot put by Microsoft on Twitter in 2016. It is known to have become racist in record time. Since then, the company has been striving to develop responsible AI. It is in this context that it announced on June 21 to withdraw certain functionalities from its facial recognition … Read more
Smile, you pay. MasterCard announced last week that it had entered the test phase for its new “Smile and Pay” product, which makes it possible to pay using facial recognition. Around the world, facial recognition is gaining ground. Fascinating but intrusive technology, its use is advancing faster than the legislation that accompanies it. Whether it … Read more
In November 2019, the National Commission for Computing and Liberties called for facial recognition ” a debate at the height of the stakes “. In April 2021, while Politico unveiled a draft European regulation on artificial intelligencethe debates resumed with a vengeance, 51 associations for the safeguard of individual rights calling for a ban on … Read more
The mayor of Nice regrets not being able to entrust part of the responsibility for maintaining order to an artificial intelligence. “Artificial intelligence will fully play its role and will be much more effective than doubling by three or quadrupling the forces of the Interior”. This May 31 in the morning, the mayor of Nice … Read more
The United Kingdom is the fourth territory to sanction in this way the company specializing in facial recognition, accused of illegally collecting millions of personal data. The American company specializing in facial recognition technologies Clearview AI has been fined 7.5 million pounds sterling (8.85 million euros) in the United Kingdom and will have to delete … Read more
We should not bury the prospect of a deployment of facial recognition in the public space on the occasion of the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. Mandated by the Senate Law Commission, three elected members of the upper house are resuscitated in a report the idea of an experiment. These video surveillance technologies, which have … Read more
Senators Marc-Philippe Daubresse (Union for a Popular Movement), Arnaud de Belenet (Centrist Union) and Jérôme Durain (Socialist, Ecologist and Republican Group) presented on May 11 the results of a report on the use of biometric recognition in public space. The spectrum of mass surveillance “It is essential to build a collective response to the use … Read more