U.S. banks deploy AI to monitor customers, workers amid tech backlash

Several U.S. banks have started deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences, monitor workers and spot people sleeping near ATMs, even as they remain wary about possible backlash over increased surveillance, more than a dozen banking and technology sources told Reuters.

Previously unreported trials at City National Bank of Florida and JPMorgan Chase & Co as well as earlier rollouts at banks such as Wells Fargo & Co offer a rare view into the potential U.S. financial institutions see in facial recognition and related artificial intelligence systems.

Widespread deployment of such visual AI tools in the heavily regulated banking sector would be a significant step toward their becoming mainstream in corporate America.

Bobby Dominguez, chief information security officer at City National, said smartphones that unlock via a face scan have paved the way.

"We're already leveraging facial recognition on mobile," he said. "Why not leverage it in the real world?"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-banks-deploy-ai-monitor-customers-workers-amid-tech-backlash-2021-04-19/

#US #AI #face #recognition #banks #privacy

🇨🇳 Chinese Government Are Tighten Grip on Chinese People in All Kinds of Ways.

In Some Cities You Have to Be Facial Recognized to Take Subway! Fee Is Deducted Directly from Your Bank Account.

Surveillance Everywhere

#China #Facial #Recognition #biometrics

Meet 🇨🇳 Chinese Facial Recognition Vending Machine.

Fee Is Deducted Automatically from Your Bank Account❗️


#China #Facial #Recognition #biometrics

#Clearview AI ordered to delete all #facial #recognition data belonging to Australians

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761001/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-australia-breach-data-delete

Facebook Is Shutting Down Its #Facial #Recognition System; Here’s Why

Back in 2017, Facebook started rolling out a facial recognition feature that detects you even in untagged photos. After making the feature opt-in in 2019, Facebook has surprised everyone with its decision to shut down the face recognition system on its platform. According to the company, the move is part of its efforts to limit the use of facial recognition in its products.

https://beebom.com/facebook-shutting-down-face-recognition-system-heres-why/

#fb

SongRec
An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.

Features:

• Recognize audio from an audio file.
• Recognize audio from the microphone.
• Usage from both GUI and command line.
• Provide an history of the recognized songs.
• Continuous song detection.
• Ability to recognize songs from your speakers rather than your microphone.

Download: https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec#installation

https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec

@foss_desktop

#music #shazam #recognition

#USA's extortion tax scam #IRS is requiring #facial #recognition just to file taxes

No ID is needed to vote, but you need your face scanned and put into a database to pay their extortion.

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-online-taxes-facial-recognition-selfies-2022-1

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/irs-require-facial-recognition-view-tax-returns

#biometrics

Europe Is Building a Huge International #Facial #Recognition System

"Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces."

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/europe-police-facial-recognition-prum

#biometrics #stalking #eu

Vosk Speech Recognition Toolkit

Vosk is an offline open source #speech #recognition toolkit. It enables speech recognition for 20+ languages and dialects - English, Indian English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Arabic, Greek, Farsi, Filipino, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Swedish, Japanese, Esperanto, Hindi, Czech. More to come.

Vosk models are small (50 Mb) but provide continuous large vocabulary transcription, zero-latency response with streaming API, reconfigurable vocabulary and speaker identification.

Speech recognition bindings implemented for various programming languages like Python, Java, Node.JS, C#, C++ and others.

Vosk supplies speech recognition for chatbots, smart home appliances, virtual assistants. It can also create subtitles for movies, transcription for lectures and interviews.

Vosk scales from small devices like Raspberry Pi or Android smartphone to big clusters.

https://t.me/speech_recognition

https://alphacephei.com/vosk

https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api