Eurostar has just begun using facial recognition for border checks:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 94915.html
https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en/travel-i ... smartcheck
Facial recognition and biometric technologies
Facial recognition and biometric technologies
A rather controversial technology, based on deep learning and neural networks - let's have a thread on it. We can include related technologies.
Eurostar has just begun using facial recognition for border checks:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 94915.html
https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en/travel-i ... smartcheck
Eurostar has just begun using facial recognition for border checks:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 94915.html
https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en/travel-i ... smartcheck
Re: Facial recognition and biometric technologies
Amazon is bringing its palm-based payments to all Whole Foods Market stores
July 20, 2023 9:24 AM
You won't have much trouble paying with your palm at the grocery store in the near future. Amazon now says it's bringing its One palm recognition technology to all Whole Foods Market stores in the US by the end of the year. As before, you can hover your palm over a reader to pay for your shopping or make use of your Prime perks. You won't have to pull out your phone or wallet if you've already signed up online.
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-is-brin ... 13042.html
July 20, 2023 9:24 AM
You won't have much trouble paying with your palm at the grocery store in the near future. Amazon now says it's bringing its One palm recognition technology to all Whole Foods Market stores in the US by the end of the year. As before, you can hover your palm over a reader to pay for your shopping or make use of your Prime perks. You won't have to pull out your phone or wallet if you've already signed up online.
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-is-brin ... 13042.html
Re: Facial recognition and biometric technologies
Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting
Covert government strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias and data, and contrasts sharply with the EU ban to keep AI out of public spaces
Sat 29 Jul 2023 17.11 BST
Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets, internal government minutes seen by the Observer reveal.
The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door meeting on 8 March between policing minister Chris Philp, senior Home Office officials and the private firm Facewatch, whose facial recognition cameras have provoked fierce opposition after being installed in shops.
In a development that ignores critics who claim the technology breaches human rights and is biased, particularly against darker-skinned people, minutes of the meeting appear to show Home Office officials agreeing to write to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) advocating the merits of facial recognition technology in tackling “retail crime”.
Mark Johnson, advocacy manager of the campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: “The Home Office must urgently answer questions about this meeting, which appears to have led officials to lean on the ICO in order to favour a firm that sells highly invasive facial recognition technology.
“Government ministers should strive to protect human rights, not cosy up to private companies whose products pose serious threats to civil liberties in the UK.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... hoplifting
Covert government strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias and data, and contrasts sharply with the EU ban to keep AI out of public spaces
Sat 29 Jul 2023 17.11 BST
Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets, internal government minutes seen by the Observer reveal.
The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door meeting on 8 March between policing minister Chris Philp, senior Home Office officials and the private firm Facewatch, whose facial recognition cameras have provoked fierce opposition after being installed in shops.
In a development that ignores critics who claim the technology breaches human rights and is biased, particularly against darker-skinned people, minutes of the meeting appear to show Home Office officials agreeing to write to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) advocating the merits of facial recognition technology in tackling “retail crime”.
Mark Johnson, advocacy manager of the campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: “The Home Office must urgently answer questions about this meeting, which appears to have led officials to lean on the ICO in order to favour a firm that sells highly invasive facial recognition technology.
“Government ministers should strive to protect human rights, not cosy up to private companies whose products pose serious threats to civil liberties in the UK.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... hoplifting
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