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    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      FT GuidesDigital financial services: an explainer
      Why is technology best for checking bank customer identities?

      Machines aren’t just faster than humans at recognising faces, they’re also more accurate

      A view over the shoulder of a man holding a smartphone, with his face showing on the phone screen as he uses the device to conduct facial recognition
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      UK government seeks expanded use of AI-based facial recognition by police

      Move comes after privacy campaigners and independent academics criticised technology for being inaccurate

      People take part in the Notting Hill Carnival in London
    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      UK surveillance legislation
      UK policing minister pushes for greater use of facial recognition

      Chris Philp expressed desire to expand use of controversial technology in closed door meetings, according to report

      Artificial intelligence and facial recognition used in a crowd
    • 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

      Fans line up outside Madison Square Garden
    • 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

      Passengers walk through a face recognition system before entering Fengtai Railway Station in Beijing, China
    • 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

      Police officers stand beside a facial recognition van
    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      Mastercard Inc
      Mastercard launches biometric ‘wave to pay’ programme

      Payments using gestures have struggled to gain widespread adoption among consumers

      Ajay Bhalla, Mastercard’s president of cyber and intelligence, tries on a mixed reality headset
    • 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

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    • 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

      Students in a school canteen
    • 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

      Rana el Kaliouby at her offices in Boston: Affectiva builds face-scanning technology for detecting emotions, but its founders decline business opportunities that involve spying on people
    • 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

      Trials have suggested AI systems are far from perfect at discerning whether humans are telling the truth
    • 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

      Griaule’s technology is used in Afghanistan to pull fingerprints from bomb fragments
    • 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

      Composite of Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen
    • 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

      A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology
    • 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

      Facial recognition technology has been plagued by accusations of bias
    • 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

      A police facial recognition van in front of the Cardiff City football stadium
    • Friday, 24 July, 2020
      Lex
      Facial recognition: mis-faced confidence

      Instead of boosting the technology, coronavirus could help limit it

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