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Facebook Is Shutting Down Its Facial Recognition System and Deleting the Data

By Isabella Simonetti
Output of an artificial intelligence system from Google Vision, performing facial recognition.

This Controversial Company Is Selling Your Social Media Photos to Law Enforcement

By Harmon Leon
Athena Security Gun Detection

Unbiased Surveillance: AI Security Tech That Spots Guns, Not People

By Harmon Leon
facial recognition

How LSD, Nuclear Weapons Led to the Development of Facial Recognition

By Harmon Leon

Vanished Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Returns to Tech Scene With a Surprise Venture

By Sissi Cao
The normalization of facial recognition technology and mass surveillance being used to target marginalized communities, whether in the hopes of "saving them" or not, is dangerous.

Sex Workers Are at the Forefront of the Fight Against Mass Surveillance and Big Tech

By Erin Taylor
A woman uses an ATM with facial recognition technology during the presentation of the new service by CaixaBank in Barcelona on February 14, 2019.

How AI and Facial Recognition Are Impacting the Future of Banking

By Harmon Leon

US Blacklists China’s Most Valuable AI Startup, Puts MIT Research at Risk

By Sissi Cao

Microsoft’s President Has a Fix for Tech Giants Embroiled in Controversy

By Sissi Cao
Facial recognition technology is operated at Argus Solutions on August 11, 2005 in Sydney, Australia.

Dystopian Future Watch: Is San Francisco’s Facial Recognition Ban Too Little, Too Late?

By Harmon Leon

These Are the Forces Coming After Amazon, From eBay to Bernie Sanders

By John Bonazzo
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