Facial Recognition

    Facial recognition technology helps Chinese man find his family after 27 years
    Apr 18, 2017 Dunja Đuđić

    This time last year, there was a pretty big fuss about FindFace, an app that uses facial recognition to discover people’s identities with pretty high…

    This Chrome plugin shows you how Facebook sees what’s in your photos
    Jan 5, 2017 John Aldred

    There’s been a lot of buzz lately around AI, “deep learning”, computer vision. It’s all to do with image recognition. Apple and Google have also…

    Can someone snap a photo of me in the street and use it to identify me?
    Oct 2, 2016 Daniela Bowker

    With facial recognition technology you can take pictures of people in the street, run them through publicly available photographs online, and get a match. You…

    Facial recognition systems can identify you even if your face is pixelated
    Sep 13, 2016 John Aldred

    Well, this could be quite the problem for privacy advocates everywhere. In locations such the UK, it could cause even cause legal issues for things like the Data…

    Hackers can now use social media photos to bypass face detection security
    Aug 21, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    The internet is slowly (and painfully) discovering that security is a hard mistress. I mean fingerprints have been hacked, and passwords have not been delivering for…

    Snapchat’s “lenses” contain a whole lot of cool technology
    Jun 29, 2016 John Aldred

    Snapchat might be quite a silly and frivolous app to some people, while others live on it.  Regardless of your thoughts on its practical application,…

    Russian app lets you shoot photos of strangers and identify them online
    May 20, 2016 John Aldred

    As if the facial recognition news coming out of Russia wasn’t creepy enough already, it’s now available in App form to users of popular Russian…

    Photography From The Future: Facial Recognition Software Lands A Chicago Robber 22 Years In Jail
    Jun 12, 2014 Maaz Khan

    With drive-by shootings and gang violence rampant behind the curtains, within slums and neighborhoods that nobody on the outside pays attention to, Chicago is possibly…