Todd Feathers
NYPD’s Sprawling Facial Recognition System Now Has More Than 15,000 Cameras
The massive camera network is concentrated in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods, according to a new crowdsourced report.
An Insurance Startup Bragged It Uses AI to Detect Fraud. It Didn’t Go Well
Lemonade backtracked after suggesting it uses “non-verbal cues” like eye movements to reject claims. Its response raises more questions than answers.
Facial Recognition Is Racist. Why Aren’t More Cities Banning It?
Pockets of cities and states around the United States have banned police use of facial recognition, but progress is slow.
Google’s New Dermatology App Wasn’t Designed for People With Darker Skin
The company trained the system to recognize different skin conditions. But like Google itself, the app's data has a diversity problem.
Only One NYC Mayor Candidate Is Promising to Ban Facial Recognition
Here's where all the candidates stand on the controversial technology, which is known to falsely identify and discriminate against people of color.
Tech Companies Want Schools to Use COVID Relief Money on Surveillance Tools
As schools reopen with billions in federal aid, surveillance vendors are hawking expensive tools like license plate readers and facial recognition.
Artists Are Telling Spotify To Never Use 'Emotion Recognition'
The company has a patent for a system that recommends music by monitoring emotional cues in your private conversations.
Proctorio Is Doubling Down On Lawsuits Against Its Critics
The exam surveillance company is taking its legal crusade against critics a step further after coming under fire from students and privacy activists.
Schools Use Software That Blocks LGBTQ+ Content, But Not White Supremacists
A Motherboard investigation found the algorithmic surveillance tools allow racist groups like the KKK while flagging LGBTQ health sites as 'porn'.
Proctorio Is Using Racist Algorithms to Detect Faces
A student researcher has reverse-engineered the controversial exam software—and discovered a tool infamous for failing to recognize non-white faces.
Civil Rights Groups Want Tech Sites to Stop Reviewing Amazon's Ring Cameras
Civil liberties groups are asking CNET, Consumer Reports, and other tech publications to stop recommending the controversial surveillance devices.
People With Disabilities Say This AI Tool Is Making the Web Worse for Them
AccessiBe aims to make the internet fully accessible to the visually impaired by 2025—but activists say the company's AI is making things worse.