Why facial recognition is the future of diagnostics

It’s 2049 and you’re feeling sick. Instead of going to the doctor — which has become an obsolete profession — you take out your phone and take a diagnosing “selfie.” Fiction? More like soon to be a fact; scientists have designed a computer model that accurately predicts your health based on the shape of your face.

Facial Recognition Technology in 2021: Masks, Bias, and the Future of Healthcare

Imagine walking into a hospital and within seconds a computer recognized your face, linked it to your appointment, and gave you customized directions to your appointment. When you arrived in the office, your identity was confirmed simply from your face limiting the paperwork you need to fill out.

Facial recognition technology victimizes people of color. It must be regulated

Even with clear documentation of how inaccurate facial recognition technology can be, its use continues to grow.

Facial-recognition software finds a new use: diagnosing genetic disorders

Dr. Maximilian Muenke has a superpower: He can diagnose disease just by looking at a person’s face. Specifically, he can spot certain genetic disorders that make telltale impressions on facial features.

What is facial recognition - and how sinister is it?

As a surveillance technique it’s ubiquitous, but is still a political, legal and ethical conundrum.

Amazon’s facial analysis tech often mistakes dark-skinned women for men, study shows

The finding that Amazon’s facial analysis product misidentifies dark-skinned women nearly a third of the time raises new concerns. It also taps into the wider social debate about technology and bias.

Defund Facial Recognition

I’m a second-generation Black activist, and I’m tired of being spied on by the police.

Even The Government Admits Facial Recognition Is Racially Biased

A new federal study confirms the widely-adopted tech is fundamentally biased. It’s time to ban it.

Facial recognition still can’t prove someone’s identity

AI can provide clues, but facial recognition is still nowhere near reliable enough to count as legal evidence.

Here's Why I'm Campaigning Against Facial Recognition in Schools

A student organizer explains why the fight to ban facial recognition in schools and college campuses is entering a critical moment.

How can we ban facial recognition when it’s already everywhere?

The convenience that many find in consumer devices equipped with facial recognition features stands in stark contrast to the growing pressure to regulate and even ban the technology’s use by the government.

In charts: facial recognition technology — and how much do we trust it?

The global market is growing, but technical bias against women and people of colour is cause for concern.

Our Face Recognition Nightmare Began Decades Ago. Now It’s Expanding

Biometric systems used by ICE to round up migrants and separate families didn’t come from nowhere. They’ve been built over decades by both parties.

Smile, You’re on Facial Recognition

Images are captured everywhere today. Facial recognition computer software now exceeds a person’s ability to recognize faces in a sea of images. Facial recognition—no longer in the realm of science fiction—is a form of biometric technology that must be recognized and managed to its best advantage in health information management (HIM), and used in accordance with HIPAA regulations.

The Face as the Key to Unlocking Health Information

Facial recognition is a technology that analyzes a person's facial features to confirm identity, grant access to information, and help in diagnosing rare genetic diseases.

The growing backlash against facial recognition tech

Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft are all mired in controversy over it.

What Is AI, ML & How They Are Applied to Facial Recognition Technology

Facial recognition is one of the front-runner applications of AI. It is one of the advanced forms of biometric authentication capable of identifying and verifying a person using facial features in an image or video from a database.

Why facial recognition is essential for health care now

Entering the third (or fourth?) year of the pandemic but clearly still not out of it, authorities have begun thinking of using solutions that would allow them to manage health care facilities better so that the staff and resources are in the best shape to serve patients. This is where facial recognition becomes relevant.

Your Face Is Not Your Own

When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.