facial recognition tech Archives

General Services Administration adding facial recognition to Login.gov

10/31/202310/30/2023 Jennifer Goula

The GSA is altering its digital identity service to let users authenticate themselves based on ID. The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced that it is adding facial recognition to its digital identity services, letting users authenticate themselves based on using the technology to match their faces against a government ID already submitted to their accounts. The new service will provide a single sign-on services for Americans using Login.gov. In this way, Login.gov will accept facial recognition as an authentication against the image on an already-submitted government ID. Americans will…

IBM said it was easing off facial recognition, but now it’s doubling down

09/08/202309/07/2023 Stephanie Beck

A new $69.8 million contract may have been signed in which IBM will be providing precisely that technology. New media reports are showing that IBM, which had previously stated that it was greatly withdrawing from facial recognition technology, has now signed a new contract giving it a substantial focus on it. The company denies that the deal it signed with the government is for general purpose biometric surveillance. That said, human rights advocates have accused IBM of participating in precisely that potential use for the facial recognition technology. As was…

Facial recognition technology to be implemented for Paris 2024 Olympics

03/21/202303/20/2023 Sam Lambert

Facial recognition - Paris with olympic rings in background

France Television has been running a number of tests with the tech on Paris streets. Though it can’t really be seen as we go about our everyday lives, facial recognition technology has been making its way into a broad spectrum of our typical activities, from unlocking smartphones to interacting with certain businesses and when traveling. Even when we feel we’re just another face in the crowd, we are far from going unnoticed. Facial recognition technology advances have made it increasingly challenging for people to be able to move around anonymously,…

FBI and DoD were actively involved in facial recognition development

03/10/202303/09/2023 Stephanie Beck

Facial recognition - Technology used on woman

The software used in everything from street cameras to drones was developed in part by the Pentagon. Internal documents made public due to a lawsuit response have shown that the US government was profoundly involved in the research and development of facial recognition software they were hoping to use for mass surveillance. The FBI and Defense Department were actively involved in R&D to help identify people from footage. According to the documents, the FBI and Department of Defense were actively involved in facial recognition software research and development in the…

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…