In the fight for more privacy online, University of Toronto researchers have devised an algorithm to sabotage facial recognition technology. Called an “adversarial attack,” the algorithm ...

Each time you upload a photo or video to a social media platform, its facial recognition systems learn a little more about you. These algorithms ingest data about who you are, your location and people ...

Facebook denies that ’10 year challenge’ is a ploy to collect facial recognition data By Rahul Kalvapalle Global News Posted January 16, 2019 9:14 pm Updated April 19, 2019 3:13 am ...

Imagine we are using a state-of-the-art face recognition algorithm and using a similarity value that falls into the -1 to +1 range.

The facial recognition algorithm produced several matches, and the analyst chose the first one: a mug shot of a man named Willie Allen Lynch. Lynch was convicted of selling drugs and sentenced to ...

Research Paper to be published at the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing The researchers used "adversarial learning" to pit a face recognition algorithm against ...

Sadly Williams’ story is not a one-off. In a recent case of mistaken identity, facial recognition technology led to the wrongful arrest of a Black Georgian for purse thefts in Louisiana.