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Canon EOS R3 facial recognition now knows who to focus on in a crowd

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As well as the firmware update for the EOS R5, Canon has also announced v1.4.0 firmware for the Canon EOS R3 (buy here). Unfortunately, the new pixel shift feature of the EOS R5 doesn’t appear to have translated over. What it does have, however, is improved facial recognition. You’re now able to have it remember specific people in an attempt to focus on them.

This newfound ability will be very handy for several photographers, including wedding and sports shooters. Being able to focus on specific people throughout the course of events such as these can prove to be extremely useful and ensure more keepers. After all, you don’t want to be shooting a wedding party and have it randomly focus on drunk aunts and uncles behind the wedding couple all the time.

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Facial recognition website under fire for scraping photos of dead people

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Facial recognition website PimEyes recently got under fire for scraping photos of dead people for their facial data. The website reportedly took photos from Ancestry, which is not allowed to begin with. But what makes this case extra disturbing is that they used photos of people who can’t give their consent.[Read More…]

Iran could use facial recognition to ID women without hijabs

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard of Mahsa Amini protests in Iran. They started when the country’s morality police arrested the young woman for allegedly violating the country’s hijab laws. She later died in custody, supposedly from being severely beaten.

The protests have already had many terrible consequences for the people of Iran, and now comes another one. Iranian government agency indicated that the country would use facial recognition to target and identify women who “fail to observe hijab laws,” among other things.

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Facial recognition blunder lands innocent man in jail

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Facial recognition software allegedly sent an innocent black man to jail for a crime he did not commit. The man had never even set foot in the state where the robbery took place, however, issues with the technology misidentified him as the perpetrator.

Randall Reid says he has never been to Lousiana, and certainly never stole $10,000 of designer handbags. In fact, Reid was three states away in his home state of Georgia when the crime occurred. However, that didn’t stop New Orleans police from using facial recognition software to find and arrest Reid for the crimes.

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Scientists are using facial recognition to save the seals

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When I think of facial recognition, things like surveillance and privacy issues are the first to spring to mind. But like most technology, facial recognition can be used for good, and that’s exactly what scientists at Colgate University are doing.

They have developed an image database that uses facial recognition technology to track the seals. It’s a part of a conservation effort, making it much faster, easier, and more efficient to identify, track, study, and ultimately help the animals.

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Hurry up and claim your share of Google’s $100 million privacy settlement before 24 September

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Earlier this year, the state of Illinois filed a class action lawsuit against Google over Google Photos’ privacy concerns. The company settled, and it was to pay a total of $100 million to anyone who used the app. And if you lived in Illinois between 2015 and 2022, hurry up: you only have a few days left to apply for your cut of the payout.

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Google pays $100 million after being sued over Google Photos facial recognition

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Last month, Illinois filed a class action lawsuit against Google over privacy concerns. As the Google Photos app uses facial recognition, plaintiffs alleged that the company broke Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). However, the company has settled, and it will now have to pay a total of $100 million to the app users.

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France orders Clearview AI to delete the selfie data it gathered

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Clearview AI came under fire for scraping billions of selfies off the Internet to sell facial recognition services to law enforcement. France’s privacy watchdog said that the company has breached Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and France has now ordered Clearview AI to delete its database.

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Scottish Isle using facial recognition software to track puffins

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If I were to say ‘facial recognition software’ to you, you’d be forgiven for immediately thinking about social media companies, governments keeping tabs on their citizens, and general Big-Brother-esque scenarios. But this is a story of a slightly more unusual use of the AI: counting not sheep, but puffins.

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