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Facial recognition may help find US Capitol rioters, but at a cost
As facial recognition is increasingly used by authorities to nab lawbreakers from criminals to US Capitol rioters, experts warn it could harm many others.
UN experts sound alarm over AI-enhanced racial profiling
Countries must do more to combat racial profiling, UN rights experts said on Nov 26, warning that artificial intelligence programmes like facial recognition and predictive policing risked reinforcing the harmful practice.
Appeal filed against Siti Kasim’s acquittal, says her lawyer
KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution has filed an appeal against the acquittal of lawyer and activist Siti Kasim of a charge of obstructing a Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department (Jawi) officer from discharging her public duty during an event at a hotel in 2016.
Belarus promises Russia a meeting with detained alleged mercenaries on Friday - agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus promised Russian diplomats to set up a meeting with the detained Russian citizens, who Minsk said were a group of Russian mercenaries, by the end of the day on Friday, Tass news agency quoted Russian ambassador to Belarus as saying.
Kremlin hopes Belarus will soon free Russian men detained in alleged plot
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday it hoped that more than 30 Russian private security contractors detained in neighbouring Belarus and accused of plotting acts of terrorism would soon be released.
Russia turns on Belarus over 'odious' detention of alleged mercenaries
MOSCOW/MINSK (Reuters) - Russia demanded an explanation from Belarus on Thursday over what it called Minsk's wrongful arrest of a group of alleged Russian mercenaries accused of plotting acts of terrorism.
Amid reckoning on police racism, algorithm bias in focus
A wave of protests over law enforcement abuses has highlighted concerns over artificial intelligence programs like facial recognition which critics say may reinforce racial bias.
U.S. activists decry first known wrongful arrest blamed on face recognition
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - An incorrect facial recognition match led to the first known wrongful arrest in the United States based on the increasingly used technology, civil liberties activists alleged in a complaint to Detroit police on Wednesday.
Anti-terror Bill gets green light
THE House of RepresenÂtaÂtiÂves passed the Anti-ÂTerrorism Act of 2020 by a vote of 173-31, with 29 abstentions. The approved version was a virtual copy of Senate Bill No. 1083, which the upper chamber passed in February.
UK police use of facial recognition tests public’s tolerance
When British police used facial recognition cameras to monitor crowds arriving for a football match in Wales, some fans protested by covering their faces. In a sign of the technology’s divisiveness, even the head of a neighboring police force said he opposed it.
