Tag: recognition
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10 fashions to help you confuse facial recognition systems
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Photo: Cap_able A world where your every move can be tracked using facial recognition has gone from science fiction to an everyday reality. Facial recognition is common at airports, concerts, and stores, its in our schools, and you might even have to use it to file your taxes. Some people are willing to trade privacy…
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Experts Worry as Facial Recognition Comes to Airports and Cruises
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If biometric data is stolen or misused, travelers don’t have much recourse, said Alex Alben, who teaches privacy, data and cybersecurity at the University of California Los Angeles and University of Washington law schools. There are no federal laws regarding the use of biometric data, he said, although a few states are beginning to create…
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Marvel visual effects workers vote in favor of union recognition
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More than 50 visual effects (VFX) workers at Marvel Studios have filed for unionization election with the National Labor Relations Board for the first time in history. On Monday (Aug. 7), a supermajority of these workers signed authorization cards saying that they want to be represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE),…
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C. Tangana always wanted artistic recognition. ‘Now I have it’
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MEXICO CITY — A spotlight fell in the darkened concert arena on a long table strewn with drinks, ashtrays and dinner plates, as if a leisurely meal had just taken place. Sitting around it were a dozen musicians and Antón Álvarez Alfaro, the Spanish singer known as C. Tangana, who was holding court in a…
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French privacy chief warns against using facial recognition for 2024 Olympics – POLITICO
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PARIS — The French data protection authority’s president Marie-Laure Denis warned Tuesday against using facial recognition as part of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics security toolkit. “The members of the CNIL’s college call on parliamentarians not to introduce facial recognition, that is to say the identification of people on the fly in the public space,”…
