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Facial recognition for gamers, app store bans for Didi: what's behind China's recent crackdown on big tech?

The Conversation/Reuters
Posted at Jul 14 02:56 PM

Over the past few weeks, the Chinese government’s crackdown on big tech companies has intensified. The giants have all felt the brunt of heightened regulatory scrutiny. Read more »

China's Tencent turns to facial recognition to snag late-night child gamers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 08 02:41 PM

Chinese tech giant Tencent has rolled out a facial recognition "midnight patrol" function to root out children masquerading as adults to get around a government curfew on underage gamers.   Read more »

Amazon to extend ban on police use of face recognition tech

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 19 10:36 AM

Amazon said Tuesday it is extending its ban on the use of its facial recognition tools for law enforcement, amid persistent concerns of bias in the technology. Read more »

Gov't, health workers file complaint vs NTF-ELCAC over red tagging

Joyce Balancio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 23 07:09 PM

Three groups each representing health workers, government workers, and teachers on Friday trooped to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) office to file a complaint against alleged red tagging by the controversial anti-insurgency task force's official.  Read more »

Facebook to pay $650 million settlement over US privacy dispute

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 01 08:33 AM

A US federal judge has given final approval to Facebook's $650 million payment to settle a privacy dispute between the social media giant and 1.6 million users in the state of Illinois.    Read more »

Duterte OKs up to P10,000 'service recognition' perk for state workers

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 21 03:13 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a one-time incentive of up to P10,000 to recognize the performance of government employees this year, according to a document released on Monday.    Read more »

Morocco recognizes Israel and wins Trump nod on Western Sahara

Shaun Tandon and Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 11 05:02 AM

WASHINGTON - Morocco has become the fourth Arab nation this year to recognize Israel, President Donald Trump announced Thursday, as he in turn fulfilled a decades-old goal of Morocco by backing its sovereignty in disputed Western Sahara. Read more »

5 soldiers wounded in Abu Sayyaf blasts given medals, aid

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 05 04:38 AM

MANILA - Five soldiers wounded in the Sulu bombings last August were recognized and given financial aid in Camp Navaro, Calarian, Zamboanga City on Wednesday. Read more »

Singapore's world-first face scan plan sparks privacy fears

Martin Abbugao, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 18 01:21 PM

Singapore will become the world's first country to use facial verification in its national ID scheme, but privacy advocates are alarmed by what they say is an intrusive system vulnerable to abuse. Read more »

Amazon unveils payment by hand-waving

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 30 08:11 AM

Amazon on Tuesday unveiled a new biometric payment system using palm recognition, to be made available to rival retailers and also promoted as a replacement for badge entry at stadiums or workplaces. Read more »

This tool could protect your photos from facial recognition

Kashmir Hill, The New York Times
Posted at Aug 04 03:49 AM

In recent years, companies have been prowling the web for public photos associated with people’s names that they can use to build enormous databases of faces and improve their facial-recognition systems, adding to a growing sense that personal privacy is being lost, bit by digital bit.   Read more »

Back to work? Not without a check-in app, immunity passport

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Jul 06 09:25 AM

To go anywhere in Singapore these days, Joni Sng needs mobile phone apps and other technologies: a QR code to enter shops, a digital map to see how crowded a mall or park is, and a tracker to show if she was near someone infected with the coronavirus.   Read more »

Microsoft bans face-recognition sales to police as Big Tech reacts to protests

Jeffrey Dastin and Munsif Vengattil, Reuters
Posted at Jun 12 07:15 AM

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would await federal regulation before selling facial recognition technology to police, making it the latest big firm to back away from the business following protests against law enforcement brutality and bias. Read more »

Amazon stops police using its face-recognition tech

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 11 08:50 AM

Amazon on Wednesday announced a one-year ban on letting police use its facial recognition technology, calling for strong government regulations for its ethical use. Read more »

IBM turns away from facial recognition business

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 09 09:40 AM

IBM said Monday it is no longer selling general purpose facial recognition software and is opposed to using such technology for racial profiling or mass surveillance.   Read more »

Mass testing sa gov't offices ipinanawagan

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 01 08:02 PM

Nanawagan ng mass testing ang grupo ng mga government employee ngayong nagbabalikan na ang mga manggagawa sa pamahalaan. Read more »

China's coronavirus campaign offers glimpse into surveillance system

Cate Cadell, Reuters
Updated as of May 26 02:24 PM

BEIJING - The coronavirus outbreak in China has given unprecedented glimpses into how an extensive system of surveillance cameras works, as monitoring stations are rebranded epidemic "war rooms" helping to check people's movements and stifle the disease. Read more »

Watchdog sues for data on airport facial recognition in US

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 13 05:37 AM

A civil liberties watchdog sued the US government Thursday seeking the disclosure of records on the use of facial recognition technology being deployed at American airports. Read more »

From Japan to the UAE, airports test face scanners to move lines faster

Julie Weed, The New York Times
Posted at Feb 26 10:05 AM

While airports are expanding their physical facilities where they can, governments and the travel industry are leaning more heavily on technology, especially artificial intelligence, to process more air travelers more quickly. Read more »

Bumblebees remember objects they see and recognize them by touch

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 21 07:26 AM

WASHINGTON - Think about a time you've looked for an item on a high shelf or in a cluttered bag: You can identify it by touch alone based on your mental recollection of what it looks like. Read more »