In this episode, we discuss a number of miscellaneous news updates regarding facial recognition technology (concerning San Francisco, Amazon, and pandas!). And then, we talk about how much we trust AI-generated profiles for Airbnb.

Sources

• San Francisco’s facial recognition ban still lets corporations spy on you

• Amazon’s facial recognition service is being used to scan mugshots, but it’s also used to track innocuous things like soccer balls

• Amazon Investors Reject Proposals on Climate Change and Facial Recognition

• Amazon facial recognition ban won just 2% of shareholder vote

• Amazon shareholders vote down proposals on facial recognition and climate change

• AI-generated profiles? Airbnb users prefer a human touch

• CHI 2019 Paper: AI-Mediated Communication: How the Perception that Profile Text was Written by AI Affects Trustworthiness