Facial Recognition Archives

Metaverse virtual reality pioneer John Carmack leaves Meta

12/22/202212/21/2022 Jennifer Goula

The VR expert reportedly departed the company over a creative disagreement with Mark Zuckerberg. Meta’s Oculus VR Chief Technology Officer John Carmack is leaving the company over a virtual reality strategy disagreement with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Carmack first joined Oculus as a VR developer in 2013, just before Facebook bought it in 2014. According to a recent Bloomberg report, Carmack detailed in his resignation letter that he didn’t feel adequately able to impact Meta’s virtual reality efforts in the right direction. He had been working for Oculus since the…

Amazon will trial facial recognition seller identity verification tech

11/22/202211/21/2022 L. Green

The e-commerce giant is seeking to improve forgery detection and improved seller identity verification. Amazon will begin a trial period using facial recognition technology to help the e-commerce giant to better detect forgeries and verify the identities of online sellers. This test will be a part of a broader strategy trialing a range of different automated technologies. The facial recognition test started last week and is taking place as a voluntary option for potential sellers in the United States. Individuals who do not want to participate in the test using that…

Italy bans facial recognition technology with one exception

11/17/202211/16/2022 L. Green

The European country has prohibited the use of the tech and of “smart glasses” except for crime fighting. Italy has issued a ban on the use of both facial recognition technology and of “smart glasses” in the country, though there is a major exception to this newly created rule. The country’s Data Protection Agency recently scolded the use of the tech by two municipalities. Italy’s Data Protection Agency criticized two of the country’s municipalities earlier this week for experimenting with facial recognition and smart glasses technologies. This referred specifically to…

NITI Aayog thinktank recommends improved facial recognition security in India

11/09/202211/08/2022 Sam Lambert

Facial recognition technology - man being scanned

The National Institute for Transforming India is calling for enhanced safeguards for collected personal data. The National Institute for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) an Indian government think tank, has called for clearer safeguards regarding personal data collected using facial recognition technology. They are pushing for improved security for personal data collected from citizens across India. NITI Aayog was particularly concerned about improvements regarding the facial recognition data collected through the Digi Yatra airport biometrics system. The think tank has issued a draft discussion paper as the latest updated version of…

Canadian politicians call for ‘national pause” on facial recognition use

10/10/202210/08/2022 Jesse Collins

The ministers of parliament pointed in particular to the use of the technology by law enforcement. Current legislation in Canada does not provide adequate regulation for the use of facial recognition or artificial intelligence technologies, according to a recent report. A House of Commons ethics committee is calling for a nationwide pause on the use of the tech. The House of Commons ethics committee called for the Canadian federal government to establish laws and restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology. This included a moratorium on the unchecked use…