Nature - An audit of commercial facial-analysis tools found that dark-skinned faces are misclassified at a much higher rate than are faces from any other group. Four years on, the study is shaping research, regulation and commercial practices.

In this report, researchers develop “minimum ethical and legal standards” for the governance of facial recognition technology and test them on three British police deployments – with all three failing.

🚨NEWS: after the Met spent massive resources in central London on Saturday using live facial recognition cameras all day, scanning *36,420* people’s faces, guess what the outcome was?0 correct matches1 wrong match, requiring a member of the public to prove their innocence 🥴 https://t.co/gKDtT0Jjp5— Silkie Carlo (@silkiecarlo) July 18, 2022

(1/7) Home Office is now introducing facial recognition smart watches to monitor foreign nationals who have completed their sentences and released back into the community. Lucy Audibert (@privacyint) and I clearly explain as to why this is problematic and must be challenged. pic.twitter.com/1h5KrwLa38— Monish Bhatia (@DrMonishBhatia) August 5, 2022

Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day

The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and weak enforcement of data protection law are failing to protect millions of children from the normalisation of routine use of biometric data for everyday canteen and library transactions, and increasingly intrusive bodily surveillance in the classroom. Pupils in the UK are effectively guinea pigs in the use of emerging technology for companies from around the world, including facial recognition technology that has already been banned from schools in other countries.

Dear North Ayrshire Council, Please provide me with a copy of your DPIA in relation to the processing of biometric data (facial recognition) for the purpose of uniquely identifying children with regards to your recent email informing parents of new processing in relation to cashless catering. Yours faithfully, Katie Brewar

Ibrahim Hasan looks at the significant issues raised by the use of facial recognition in schools.

Schools using facial recognition systems should consider less intrusive ways to let pupils pay for meals, the UK's data privacy watchdog has said.

"We understand the concerns that have been raised," said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig.

The use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is likely to be one of the key areas where new technology clashes with data protection rights. On the one hand, FRT has a wide range of potential use and users, from law enforcement agencies and civil enforcement bodies, to even – according to a recent Financial Times report – schools providing lunches to pupils.

· ADCU & Worker Info Exchange launch action against Uber for discrimination over use of facial recognition technology known to be error prone with people of colour · Uber uses facial recognition technology provided by Microsoft who have suspended sales to US police forces in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests · ADCU & Worker Info Exchange launch crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the action In a global first for the gig economy, the App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU

Police officers in South Wales and Gwent are to become the first in the UK to develop and use technology to identify wanted individuals in real time through a new facial recognition app on their mobile phones.

Facebook and Amazon are distancing themselves from facial recognition software - so why isn't Uber and TfL?

A genealogy of one of the most important datasets in AI.

In tests, it detected black faces less than half the time

A new paper from the MIT Media Lab’s Joy Buolamwini shows that three commercial facial-analysis programs demonstrate gender and skin-type biases, and suggests a new, more accurate method for evaluating the performance of such machine-learning systems.

Computer vision technology has lower accuracy rates for black females

BAME couriers working for Uber Eats and Uber claim that the company’s flawed identification technology is costing them their livelihoods

Successfully capturing black skin in photos has been a challenge in the photography world for decades, partially due to the Shirley Card.

Image-generation algorithms are regurgitating the same sexist, racist ideas that exist on the internet.

The UK government admits it knew its facial mapping tech struggled to work with some skin tones.