/channels/taxonomy/term/4918/all en /channels/channels/news/experts-ottawa-tested-facial-recognition-millions-travellers-torontos-pearson-airport-332052 <p>The federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions of unsuspecting travellers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in 2016. The six-month initiative, meant to pick out people the Canada Border Services Agency suspected might try to enter the country using fake identification, is detailed in a document obtained by <i>The Globe and Mail</i> through a freedom of information request. The project is the largest known government deployment of the technology in Canada to date.</p> Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:45:45 +0000 webfull 171870 at /channels /channels/news/findface-database-human-faces-some-unsettling-applications-262372 <p>The August 24 episode of "Babbage", a podcast from <em>The Economist</em> about science and technology news, reports on an worrisome new Russian web-site, FindFace.ru. This website allows you to input a picture of a face and do a search for that person, or someone who looks like that person, on VK.com, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. The website boasts of a 70% accuracy rate.</p> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 22:59:02 +0000 webfull 120847 at /channels