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Facial Recognition Fail: Detroit Forced To Pay $300K To Man AI Falsely Recognised As Thief
The City of Detroit has agreed to pay a man $300,000 in a settlement after the city police's facial recognition software wrongly identified him and accused him of shoplifting. The city will also revise its policies on how law enforcement uses facial recognition technology to solve crimes.The lawsuit settlement involving citizen Robert Williams came from
July 3, 2024
Facial recognition to play key role in UK shoplifting crackdown
The UK government is investing £55m in expanding the police’s use of facial-recognition systems, including a fleet of vans to scan crowded high streets, as part of a crackdown on shoplifters. Announced alongside plans to give tougher punishments to serial or abusive shoplifters in England and Wales, as well as a standalone criminal offence for
April 11, 2024
Facial Twitching and Multiple Sclerosis
Symptoms of MS Facial TwitchingIt may start as something we’re all familiar with: tiny spasms around your eyelid. “When you’re tired or stressed and you get fluttering under your eye or eyelid and it’s really annoying,” says Sharon Stoll, DO, a neurologist and MS specialist with Yale Medicine. And for most people, that’s as far…
July 18, 2022
Facial Recognition Plan from IRS Raises Big Concerns
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is planning to require citizens to create accounts with a private facial recognition company in order to file taxes online. The IRS is joining a growing number of federal and state agencies that have contracted…
February 4, 2022