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    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Madison Square Garden Co
      Madison Square Garden owner faces probe over facial recognition blacklisting

      New York attorney-general targets entertainment group accused of barring lawyers from venues

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      John Thornhill
      We must stop sleepwalking towards a surveillance state

      Biometric technology is valuable for medical research but can also have malign uses

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      A new legal battleground in US abortion wars

      UK advised to ban use of live facial recognition in public spaces

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      UK should immediately ban use of live facial recognition, warns report

      Independent review found an ‘urgent need’ for new legislation on biometric technologies

    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      Mastercard Inc
      Mastercard launches biometric ‘wave to pay’ programme

      Payments using gestures have struggled to gain widespread adoption among consumers

    • Monday, 14 February, 2022
      Meta Platforms
      Facebook owner Meta sued by Texas over facial recognition system

      Lawsuit seeks billions in damages for claims that social media platform harvested reams of data without consent

    • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
      Meta Platforms
      Facebook to shutter facial recognition system

      Social media platform erases data from 1bn users amid growing regulatory scrutiny

    • Sunday, 17 October, 2021
      Facial recognition cameras arrive in UK school canteens

      Advocates say they speed up queues, but privacy campaigners query whether they are necessary

    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Cyber Security
      Auto-scans of phones would violate data privacy, say security experts

      Leading cryptographers warn the proposed schemes to detect child abuse images are a form of mass surveillance

    • Thursday, 26 August, 2021
      Indian politics & policy
      India deploys facial recognition surveilling millions of commuters

      System developed by Russian start-up NtechLab rolled out across 30 railway stations

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      In charts: facial recognition technology — and how much do we trust it?

      The global market is growing, but technical bias against women and people of colour is cause for concern

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Rana el Kaliouby: ‘We should think of ourselves as stewards of technology’

      The CEO of ‘artificial emotional intelligence’ start-up Affectiva says the pandemic changed attitudes to machine learning

    • Friday, 14 May, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Computers are not the best judge of our emotions

      Emotional AI has potential promise but there are reasons for caution

    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      The Big Read
      Emotion recognition: can AI detect human feelings from a face?

      The market for the technology is growing rapidly despite questions from scientists about whether it works

    • Monday, 3 May, 2021
      Police should not be banned from using facial recognition technology, says UK watchdog

      Fraser Sampson says technology should be used at discretion of law enforcement

    • Thursday, 29 April, 2021
      Brazilian biometric company expands as data rules tighten

      Griaule won a $75m US government contract for its fingerprint technology

    • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
      Lex
      Lex letter from London: central bankers’ emotions are latest frontier for quants Premium content

      Study finds remarks delivered in positive way can raise stock market returns by 200 basis points

    • Tuesday, 20 April, 2021
      EU lawmakers propose strict curbs on use of facial recognition

      Draft legislation would limit use of controversial technology to essential public-interest scenarios

    • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
      Companies must not use facial recognition to judge staff, says Council of Europe

      Use of technology to hire and fire people based on mood and personality should be outlawed, proposals say

    • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
      Technology
      Why business cannot afford to ignore tech ethics

      Using new technology without weighing social impact could cost companies dearly

    • Tuesday, 11 August, 2020
      UK
      Police use of facial recognition breaches human rights law, London court rules

      Judgment favours campaigners challenging use of technology by English and Welsh forces

    • Friday, 24 July, 2020
      Lex
      Facial recognition: mis-faced confidence

      Instead of boosting the technology, coronavirus could help limit it

    • Wednesday, 1 July, 2020
      Special Report
      AI & Robotics

      Recyclers turn to AI-powered robots to counter China’s plastic import ban; historians harness machine learning to solve ancient puzzles; and farmers pick high-tech robotics to help bring in the harvest

    • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
      Eurostar to roll out facial verification for passengers

      Biometric system would reduce need for passports but brings privacy concerns

    • Thursday, 11 June, 2020
      Amazon.com
      Amazon bars police from using its facial recognition technology

      One-year moratorium comes amid controversy over potential racial bias in Rekognition algorithm

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