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69 signals· 69 on the world · 0 named to a scope FORA cannot pin · 0 with no place at all
Building the world.
By stage
one cell is one signalStructured+1933
Raw report+1125
Verified cluster11
Evidence lineage
311 source links55 of 311 count toward corroboration — the 55 independent links behind the signals named below.
Institutional response
13 organisations heldRecorded a statement5
Took enforcement4
Recorded a implementation1
No response recorded3
Silence is kept visible. A body with no recorded response is not a body that declined — FORA holds no request put to any of them.
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In the world nowNothing is verified yet
69 signals are held here.
69 sit on the world, across 30 countries. Zero are held beside it — zero named to a scope FORA cannot pin, zero attached to no place at all.
Nothing is verified yet. 69 signals rest on independent origins. Repetition is not corroboration.
What is held69 signals · five shown · most recent development first
- SIGNAL · RAW REPORTPredictive risk tool used in a child protection review2 items · 1 independent originIstanbul1 origin2 items26 Sep 2026
- SIGNAL · RAW REPORTDocumentation model altering a diagnosis note3 items · 1 independent originAccra1 origin3 items21 Sep 2026
- SIGNAL · RAW REPORTFace matching at transport gates contested after false stops4 items · 1 independent originManila1 origin4 items16 Sep 2026
- SIGNAL · STRUCTUREDLive facial recognition extended beyond its authorisation6 items · 2 independent originsSydney2 origins6 items6 Sep 2026
- SIGNAL · STRUCTUREDEmployment ranking penalising parental leave4 items · 2 independent originsMadrid2 origins4 items22 Aug 2026
Showing five of 69. 64 further signals are held and counted. The list carries every one, and nothing is hidden behind a filter.
Event time · when the thing happened, never when FORA read it6 dated events in the corpus · 1 year hold nothing
- 22023
- 32024
- 02025
- 12026
Every one of the 6 events is held to the day; the rail counts them by year, so each bracket is a year’s width and no wider. A year holding nothing keeps its place — an absence is a finding, not a gap to close up.
69 held. 69 placed. None verified. The record concentrates after 2024, and one year hold nothing at all.
Building the world…
Fragmented signals, in one place, still
showing where they came from.Fragmented signals, in one place, still showing where they came from.
It moves faster than
anyone can watch.
Take one deployment. Four pieces of evidence were filed about it. One institution answered.
A body without a recorded response is not a body that declined.
What the evidence still cannot answer
- What the false-match rate actually is
- Whether the review window was staffed
- How the appeal was decided
Unknown is a result FORA is willing to show. It is not the same as nothing happening.
- Procurement noticeTransit authority names the supplier3 NOV 2023 · PORTUGUESE
- Local newsroomFour in five stops were the wrong personThe authority said the system had been running since2 AUG 2023 · BEHIND A PAYWALL
- Court listingAppeal scheduledNo judgment published · no date stated
The evidence exists.
It does not cohere.
Four pieces of evidence about one deployment. Different sources, languages and formats — and nothing joining them.
It becomes structured
evidence, in the order things
happened.It becomes
structured evidence,
in order.
The same four items, placed where they actually fall in time — and what will not go on a line is kept, not dropped.
Structured evidence
- 2 AUG 2023EvidenceLocal newsroom report2 AUG 2023
- PolicyProcurement notice3 NOV 2023
- 19 NOV 2023AccountabilityOmbudsman letter19 NOV 2023
InvestigationCourt listing · held, no date stated
An item with no date is not placed at a guessed one. It keeps its place beside the line.An item with no date is not placed at a guessed one. It keeps its place beside the others.
AI finds it. A
person decides.AI finds it. A person decides.
Detection proposes. Nothing becomes an authoritative public characterisation until someone is willing to put their name to it.The machine found the evidence, structured it and proposed a candidate. It did not decide anything.
What the machine did
- found the evidence
- structured and linked it
- proposed this as a candidate
It did not decide anything.
What she decidedConfirmed Not yet decided Confirming and publishing are two acts. FORA never collapses them into one.
This is a candidate emerging issue, and the evidence supports saying so.
Confirmed 1 Feb 2026 · attributable to herWhether to publish it is a separate decision, and it has not been taken.Whether to publish it is a separate decision.
The object she ruled onLive facial recognition misidentifying passengers · São PauloCandidate · confirmed · not published
Which regulators have acted on facial
recognition?Which regulators
have acted on facial
recognition?
Ordinary language. No operators, no filters, no schema to learn.
What came back
Answered in part — and nothing here is verified
Three regulators appear in the evidence. One proceeding is not concluded, and one claim has no place recorded at all.
originaloriginalindependentindependentunknown lineageunknown2 of 3 corroborate
It opens in Explore.
The answer, its evidence and the places it touches are one surface — not a list of links.The answer, its evidence and the places it touches are one surface.
The places the answer touches are already on the world.
See it where it is
happening.
Geography is not a filter bolted onto a list. It is how the evidence is read.
Inspector · what is selectedGhana
Three signals are placed here. One of them is about biometric identification; it holds five evidence items from two independent origins.
Biometric enrolment exclusion at service pointsContested · no confidence figure is givenHeld beside the world
One claim carries no geography, so it is not drawn. It is counted and named, never pinned.
A question can
become work.
Nothing is thrown away between asking and doing. The sources you gathered are still there when the work starts.
- AskedWhich regulators have acted on facial recognition?
- Kept as a research sessionResearch sessionFacial recognition in transit — sources, citations, what is still open
- Two independent measurements
- Procurement notice · Portuguese
- Ombudsman letter · not indexed
- The operator’s own figure — still missing
- Connected to a projectThree people, one shared workspace, the same evidenceA Project connects shared FORA objects. It never copies them into a private silo.
The session is a persistent object, not a chat history. It can be saved, resumed, exported and connected — and the citations travel with it.
Where this gets discussed.
Researchers, journalists, regulators, campaigners and the people actually affected — arguing about the same evidence, in public.Researchers, journalists, regulators, campaigners and the people actually affected.
How should governments respond when biometric systems are deployed before independent evidence exists?
84 replies · 12 organisations · open until 28 SepAdd your answer →
FORA asks the question. It does not answer its own question.
Four education authorities bought the same proctoring system this year. Three published an equality impact assessment. I have put all three side by side.Four education authorities bought the same proctoring system this year. Three published an impact assessment.
37 replies · 6 organisations · links to 4 evidence items
I was stopped on 4 July. The operator says every match is reviewed by a person. I would like to know how many people were on that shift.I was stopped on 4 July. I would like to know how many people were reviewing matches on that shift.
61 replies · a regulator and a transport authority are in this thread
Our FOI on warehouse productivity monitoring came back 60% redacted. Publishing what we did get, and what we asked for.Our FOI on warehouse productivity monitoring came back 60% redacted. Publishing what we did get, and what we asked for.
23 replies · 2 journalists and 1 regulator followingAdd what you
know.
A document, a dataset, a deployment you have seen, a correction to something already here — or what happened to you.
You do not need an account to report a first-hand experience. You do not need to know which of these it is — FORA works that out.
Structured ingestionParsed, classified and deduplicated on the way in.Provenance controlsWhere it came from travels with it, permanently.Source verificationChecked against what is already here, and linked to it.Confidence and statusNothing is presented as more certain than it is.
Technology-assisted moderation and provenance controls structure contributions before they are surfaced. You keep control of whether your name appears, and you can withdraw while it is still open.
What can be acted
on now.
Consultations taking evidence, calls still open, and institutions that have been asked something and not answered.
Anyone can respond to an open call. Some actions are for a named body, and it says which.
Open · closes 28 Sep6 days left
Open · no closing dateContribute one →
Still open · 2 yr 10 moAdd pressure · 41 followingno end date · still running
UnknownTell us if you know →
The same intelligence, in a
form a machine can act on.
Not an export of a page. The same governed object, carrying its provenance, its state and its limits with it.
Live facial recognition misidentifying passengers at scale
Disputed · 6 evidence items · 2 independent origins
How it gets there
- API
- MCP
- webhooks
- alerts
- feeds
- exports
- structured datasets
- direct query
Where it goes
- Regulator casework
- Enterprise governance and risk
- Government policy workflows
- International monitoring
- Research environments
- Dashboards
- Newsroom investigations
- Data warehouses
- Civil-society monitoring
- Knowledge systems
What a machine reads
id fora:signal/sig-face state disputed evidence 6 items · 2 independent origins lineage original → independent → derived event_time 2023-04-14 … 2024-09-05 responses 3 recorded · 0 none recorded outcomes 0 established asserts nothing about whether the claim is true
The payload carries the evidence’s limits as well as its contents. A system that consumes it inherits the uncertainty too.
It arrives inside the systems they
already use.It arrives inside the systems they already use.
Below: a sector regulator’s own casework system. Nothing of FORA’s interface is present.Below: a sector regulator’s own casework system.
Their case file
- 12 FebComplaint intake
12 FEB 2026 - Structured signal · from FORA
14 FEB 2026 - Operator correspondence
2 MAR 2026 - 9 Mar 2026Site inspection notes
Live facial recognition misidentifying passengers at scale
6 evidence items6
evidence2 independent origins2
independent1 disputed1
disputed3 bodies with a recorded response3
responded
evidence2 independent origins2
independent1 disputed1
disputed3 bodies with a recorded response3
responded
Provenance travels with itoriginalindependentderivedAPI · MCP
A signature proves who issued it, and a hash proves it has not changed. Neither proves the claim inside is true.
Other things can
stand on it.
Building on FORA does not mean copying it. A new product reads the same governed intelligence, and inherits its provenance and its limits.A new product reads the same governed intelligence, and inherits its provenance and its limits.
What it does not get
- A copy of the evidence
- A private fork of the evidence
- A second source of truth
Open the language and the interoperability layer. The compounding intelligence stays one thing.
A compliance monitor for transport authorities
Watches the signals attached to its own jurisdiction, and alerts when a body’s response is still absent.Alerts when a body’s response is still absent.
reads · does not re-deriveTransit operator · no response recordedno responseasked 19 Nov 2023 · still openstill open
Appeal court · no judgment publishedno judgmentlisted · no date statedunknown
Transport authority · statement recordedanswered2 Mar 2026 · closedclosed
An election-technology risk tracker
Built by a civic-tech team. Watches deployments in the months before a vote.
API · events · alertsA policy assistant inside a ministry
Answers from evidence the department can cite, with its limits attached.
MCP · structured datasetsA public accountability dashboard
Run by a newsroom. Publishes who has been asked what, and who has not replied.
feeds · obligations · exportsThe same intelligence
One intelligence layer.
Three ways in.
Evidence, signals, events and institutional responses — structured, dated and traceable, current enough to act on.
- Use FORA
Which regulators have acted
on facial recognition? - Integrate FORA
Arriving inside a regulator’s
own case system - Build on FORA
A compliance monitor
for transport authorities
The evidence keeps
changing.
One issue, in event time. Two short bursts of activity, and twenty-seven months in which nothing was recorded at all.
202420252026
- Local newsroom report
- Procurement notice
- Ombudsman letter
- Complaint intake
- Operator correspondence
- Site inspection notes
Event time only — when things happened, never when FORA wrote them down. A period holding nothing is drawn, not skipped.
One intelligence layer
- Use it
- Integrate it
- Build on it
Helping society
understand and
govern technology.
Live governance intelligence on what technology is doing — and what is being done about it.
Technology is borderless.
Its governance must be too.Technology
is borderless.
Its governance
must be too.
One intelligence layer. Three ways in — use it, integrate it, build on it.