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Facebook to End Use of Its Facial Recognition System

Hunton Privacy

announced in a blog post that it will shut down its “ Face Recognition” system in coming weeks as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in its products. Users also will no longer see suggested tags or be able to turn on suggested tagging.

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Facebook is going to shut down Face Recognition system and data it collected

Security Affairs

Facebook announced to shut down its Face Recognition system and is going to delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles. Facebook announced it will stop using the Face Recognition system on its platform and will delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles.

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GUEST ESSAY: The privacy implications of facial recognition systems rising to the fore

The Last Watchdog

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. A string of advances in biometric authentication systems has brought facial recognition systems, in particular, to the brink of wide commercial use. Related: Drivers behind facial recognition boom.

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Texas AG Investigates Facebook’s Use of Biometric Identifiers

Hunton Privacy

As we previously reported , Facebook recently reached a $650 million settlement for alleged violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act for their use of facial recognition software without permission from affected users.

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10 everyday machine learning use cases

IBM Big Data Hub

Voice-based queries use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis for speech recognition. This communication can involve speech recognition, speech-to-text conversion, NLP, or text-to-speech. ML algorithms govern the facial recognition we rely on to turn on our phones.

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Robots at HIS Group are vulnerable to hack

Security Affairs

The robots use facial recognition to perform check-in operations before access to their rooms and assist them during their stay at the hotel. The bed facing Tapia robot deployed at the famous Robot Hotels in Japan can be converted to offer anyone remote camera/mic access to all future guests. Unsigned code via NFC behind the head.

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Illinois Court Says Biometric Fingerprint is Violation of Privacy, Even Without Injury: Data Privacy Trends

eDiscovery Daily

On January 25, the Illinois Supreme Court rejected an argument from a popular theme park that would have limited a state law that requires consent for the use of facial recognition and other biometrics. With Legaltech® behind us, it’s time to get back to covering interesting news items.