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A third gay bar in San Francisco has suspended its use of facial recognition technology following privacy concerns. The pause reflects growing pushback against biometric surveillance in LGBTQ+ spaces in the city.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has pulled back a $125 million sole-source contract it had planned to award to Thomson Reuters for surveillance data services. The withdrawal ends, at least for now, a deal that would have bypassed the competitive bidding process.
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A campaign called 'Ban the Scan' is gaining traction in opposition to facial recognition technology used at Madison Square Garden. The push reflects growing public and political pressure to restrict how private venues deploy biometric surveillance on the people who attend their events.
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Pressure is growing to restrict or ban the facial recognition and surveillance systems used by Madison Square Garden, which critics have described as a surveillance empire operating inside a major public venue.
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Federal agents deployed facial recognition technology to identify and compile photographs of protesters during Operation Metro Surge, according to reporting by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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Privacy advocates staged a rally outside Madison Square Garden to demand a ban on facial recognition technology at the venue. The protest reflects growing public pushback against the use of biometric surveillance in privately owned public spaces.
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New York lawmakers have introduced legislation that would prohibit the use of facial recognition technology at Madison Square Garden, the major entertainment and sports venue in Manhattan.
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Erie County asked businesses to disclose their use of biometric technology under a local law, and received only a small number of responses. The low turnout suggests limited compliance or awareness among the businesses covered by the requirement.
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Protesters gathered outside Madison Square Garden to demonstrate against the venue's use of facial recognition technology, calling for it to be banned. The rally reflects growing public pushback against biometric surveillance at major entertainment and sports venues.
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The Premier League is providing funding to London police to deploy facial recognition technology at football matches. The arrangement represents a private sports organization directly financing law enforcement surveillance infrastructure.
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A coalition of Democratic-led states has filed suit to block the Department of Homeland Security from accessing a commercial driver's license database, arguing the demand is part of a coordinated push to build mass surveillance infrastructure.
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India's Supreme Court has agreed to examine a legal challenge to the use of facial recognition technology at protests. The case puts the country's highest court at the center of a dispute over biometric surveillance of people exercising the right to public assembly.
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A Washington state judge has ordered prediction market platform Kalshi to halt sports betting and other wagers available to users in the state, and to use geofencing technology to block access for Washington residents.
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Researchers are investigating the use of foundation models and synthetic data to advance facial recognition technology. The work points toward a new generation of biometric systems that may require less real-world personal data to train.
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The Premier League has agreed to fund live facial recognition technology for the Metropolitan Police to deploy on matchdays, extending surveillance operations at football matches in London.
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The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts announced it will begin publicly disclosing how frequently federal judges have authorized government use of spyware for wiretapping in criminal investigations. The move introduces a new layer of transparency into a surveillance practice that has largely operated out of public view.
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A guide from Cybernews outlines tools and methods people can use to reduce their visibility to facial recognition systems in public and online spaces.
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It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.
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Newly released documents reveal that a federal surveillance operation in Minnesota monitored progressive organizations and labor unions. The scope and methods of the operation are drawn from the documentary record rather than any official public acknowledgment.
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You're not alone if you just received an "Apple Threat Notification" saying it detected a "mercenary spyware attack targeted at your iPhone." [...]
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Facial recognition technology is apparently being deployed or considered in The Castro, San Francisco's historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood, prompting scrutiny about its use in that community context.
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Flock Safety, which sells license plate reader and surveillance tools to law enforcement agencies, announced it is making a new feature called 'Audit Assistance' mandatory for all customers, saying it has already helped identify officer misconduct. The company has not publicly explained how the tool works or what metrics it uses to flag potential abuse.
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Flock Safety, a major provider of automated license plate reader systems, has announced a set of reforms in response to widespread backlash that led many municipalities to cancel or pause their contracts with the company. Critics, including civil liberties advocates, say the changes address some long-standing problems but leave the core privacy risks of mass vehicle surveillance intact.
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A blog post from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation argues that facial recognition technology is being unfairly singled out as the driver of workplace surveillance, suggesting the focus on this one tool may be misplaced.
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