Hacker News with Generative AI: Facial Recognition

Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars (theguardian.com)
Police believe live facial recognition cameras may become “commonplace” in England and Wales, according to internal documents, with the number of faces scanned having doubled to nearly 5m in the last year.
We perceive faces from other racial groups differently (medicalxpress.com)
University of Toronto Scarborough researchers have harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) and brain activity to shed new light on why we struggle to accurately recognize faces of people from different races.
Alarming gains in face reconstruction from biometric templates (biometricupdate.com)
Biometric template security is critical to the data integrity and privacy the industry needs to thrive, and template inversion attacks represent a potential threat vector that has been mostly theoretical, at least so far. That may be changing, however, with researchers finding sophisticated methods of reconstructing people’s faces from templates.
A new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans (technologyreview.com)
Police and federal agencies have found a controversial new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that can track people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories.
In São Paulo, 'Big Brother' is watching, with 25K cameras and facial recognition (elpais.com)
In São Paulo, Brazil, the fugitive probably felt protected by the anonymity offered by a city of 12 million people… a larger population than many countries.
Border Agents Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the US by Car (wired.com)
United States Customs and Border Protection is asking tech companies to send pitches for a real-time face recognition tool that would take photos of every single person in a vehicle at a border crossing, including anyone in the back seats, and match them to travel documents, according to a document posted in a federal register last week.
Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech (jsonline.com)
Milwaukee police are mulling a trade: 2.5 million mugshots for free use of facial recognition technology.
Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Revealed (motherjones.com)
One evening in March 2017, Hoan Ton-That, an Australian coder building a powerful facial recognition system, emailed his American business partners with a plan to deploy their fledgling technology. “Border patrol pitch,” the subject line read. He hoped to persuade the federal government to integrate their product with border surveillance cameras so that their newly formed company, later named Clearview AI, could use “face detection” on immigrants entering the United States.
What no one is saying about the first city-wide facial recognition zone [video] (youtube.com)
Met Police gets first permanent facial recognition cameras in London (lbc.co.uk)
Police are setting up London's first permanent facial recognition cameras, despite privacy fears.
China bans compulsory facial recognition; use in private spaces like hotel rooms (theregister.com)
China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent.
Hungary's use of facial recognition violates EU AI Act (euractiv.com)
In its latest amendment to the Hungarian Child Protection Act, Viktor Orbán's plan to use facial recognition systems against participants in pride events would violate the EU's AI Act.
High-Speed Face-Tracking for Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping (titech.ac.jp)
Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping (DFPM) overlays computer-generated images onto human faces to create immersive experiences that have been used in the makeup and entertainment industries. In this study, we propose two concepts to reduce the misalignment artifacts between projected images and target faces, which is a persistent challenge for DFPM.
How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition? (gizmodo.com)
Our biometric data is freely available to anybody with an AI model and a camera. Facial recognition software is such a pervasive technology that we submit our data whenever we go through airport security or walk into a drug store. You start to wonder if it’s possible to hide our facial features or—on the extreme end—change our appearance to such an extent that it fools the AI algorithm.
MyTimeMachine: Personalized Facial Age Transformation (mytimemachine.github.io)
Smile! UK cops spend millions on live facial recognition tech (theregister.com)
UK government has launched a £20 million ($25 million) competition for tech companies to provide live facial recognition to a number of police forces.
Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control (gizmodo.com)
A bipartisan group of 12 senators has urged the Transportation Security Administration’s inspector general to investigate the agency’s use of facial recognition, saying it poses a significant threat to privacy and civil liberties.
PacCam: Pac-Man controlled with your face (eieio.games)
Facial recognition glasses turn everyday life into creepy privacy nightmare (foxnews.com)
In a scenario that feels almost surreal and scary, we find ourselves grappling with the implications of the latest Meta Ray-Ban 2 Smart Glasses. These innovative shades have quickly become the center of a privacy storm, raising important questions about how technology intersects with our personal lives.
Kennedy, Merkley introduce bill to end TSA facial recognition (2023) (senate.gov)
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in introducing the Traveler Privacy Protection Act of 2023 to safeguard Americans from facial recognition screenings that the federal government is implementing at airports across the country.
NASA's Inspector General Has Decided to Buy Itself Some Clearview Access (techdirt.com)
NASA bought access to Clearview AI, a powerful and controversial surveillance tool that uses billions of images scraped from social media to perform facial recognition, according to U.S. government procurement data reviewed by 404 Media.
Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts (theregister.com)
Police around the United States are routinely using facial recognition technology to help identify suspects, but those departments rarely disclose they've done so - even to suspects and their lawyers.
Facing the Facts to Keep Our Biometrics Secure (nist.gov)
NIST researcher Mei Lee Ngan disguised herself to look like the TV character Ron Swanson and was unable to unlock her phone with this disguise.
Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds (arstechnica.com)
Two Harvard students recently revealed that it's possible to combine Meta smart glasses with face image search technology to "reveal anyone's personal details," including their name, address, and phone number, "just from looking at them."
Students Add Face Recognition to Meta's Glasses to Dox Strangers in Real Time (docs.google.com)
I-XRAY: The AI Glasses That Reveal Anyone’s Personal Details—Home Address, Name, Phone Number, and More—Just from Looking at Them
Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition (therecord.media)
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (UCCR) on Thursday released a report which asserts that three federal agencies’ use of facial recognition technology (FRT) is deeply concerning, not sufficiently standardized and not transparent enough.
Clearview AI faces $45.6M fine in the Netherlands for 'illegal database of faces (cbc.ca)
Las Vegas police could boycott working NFL games over new facial ID policy (reviewjournal.com)
Meta to pay $1.4B to end facial biometrics lawsuit in US (theregister.com)
Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission (texastribune.org)