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  • Kids How facial recognition has turned summer camp into a dystopia for campers, parents, counsellors and photographers (but not facial recognition vendors) Cory Doctorow
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  • News Microsoft takes down MS Celeb facial recognition database, 10 million+ pics of ~100,000 faces, maybe yours, scraped under Creative Commons Xeni Jardin
  • Business Patronscan wants cities to require bars to scan your ID with its service so it can maintain a secret, unaccountable blacklist Cory Doctorow
  • AI Ever, an "unlimited photo storage app," secretly fed its users' photos to a face-recognition system pitched to military customers UPDATE Cory Doctorow
  • Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow
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  • privacy What the rest of the world doesn't know about Chinese AI Cory Doctorow
  • Business Amazon shareholders to vote on proposal to stop selling racially biased facial surveillance software to governments Xeni Jardin
  • News China is rushing facial and voice recognition tech for pigs. Here's why. Xeni Jardin
  • surveillance The Safe Face Pledge: an ethical code of conduct for facial recognition scientists and developers Cory Doctorow
  • Business Whistleblower: Amazon Ring stores your doorbell and home video feeds unencrypted and grants broad "unfettered" access to them Cory Doctorow
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