In Portland Debate, Facial Recognition Giants Hide Behind Tech Lobby Think Tank
Inspecting a Portland newspaper’s opinion piece reveals the need for media literacy in tech policy discussions.
Tag: facial recognition
Portland Commissioner Floats Penalty for Business Facial Recognition Use
A Q&A with Jo Ann Hardesty, Portland’s first black woman on the city council, who considers banning facial recognition a matter of civil rights.
Is Your Data Scraping Ethical? A Movement to Update Research Ethics Reviews Is Underway
Amid data-scraping concerns and ethics board debacles, there’s a growing movement to change how corporations and academics gather and employ data for research.
What’s Really Behind Microsoft’s Push for Face Tech Regulation
While touting top rankings in a globally-watched accuracy test, Microsoft is pushing for facial recognition regulations that could expose accuracy levels of its competitors’ technologies. Meanwhile, civil liberties advocates worry the overall improvement of industry algorithms could lead to greater adoption of technologies that are not developed or employed in an ethical manner.