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Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to police until Congress passes new privacy law

Microsoft has followed competitors Amazon and IBM in restricting how it provides facial recognition technology to third parties, in particular to law enforcement agencies. The company says that it does not currently provide the technology to police, but it’s now saying it will not do so until there are federal laws governing how it can […]

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Facebook is testing a facial recognition tool to verify your identity

Facebook is reportedly working on facial-recognition software that would verify the identities of users trying to access the app. Jane Manchun Wong, a technology blogger and app researcher who unlocks features before they launch, tweeted out a prototype of Facebook’s facial-recognition identity login on. This is how Facebook's Facial Recognition-based Identity Verification looks like It […]