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Article discussing the lack of effectiveness of a face recognition system installed in the London borough of Newham.
Article on new tools for identifying people at airports. [New York Times]
Review of a British project to stop child pornography. [NY Times]
"Officials at Iceland's main airport say the face-recognition technology will help them improve security." By Emil Petrie. [BBC]
Report on a "new technology to recognizing faces in a way that may yet revolutionize international security." [CNN]
Resources about face recognition compiled by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, including many news articles.
Article on FACEIT software, with pictures and links.
"Crowd surveillance kit using face recognition technology by Visionics has been a comic failure in tests by the Tampa, Florida police, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has discovered." By Thomas C. Greene. [Register]
"High-tech identification devices could produce reams of data on law-abiding citizens--but may be useless in fighting terrorists." By Brendan I. Koerner. [Mother Jones]
"As U.S. airports begin installing face-recognition systems to thwart terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, civil rights activists are rushing to decry the technology as ineffective and invasive." [CNet]
"Is surveillance software turning police into Robocops?" By Julie Wakefield. [Mother Jones]