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A 2020 court fight in South Africa reveals dominance of biometric...
A multi-part news investigation by the MIT Technology Review looking at private surveillance -- which some call surveillance capitalism -- in South Africa touches on a seemingly inconsequential court...
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Guardian RFID debuts cloud-based prison platform with facial recognition
Guardian RFID, a Maple Grove, Minnesota-based company that specializes in correctional facility technology, has launched a cloud product that utilizes facial recognition and AI to improve the...
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CyberLink joins FIDO, integrates FaceMe facial recognition with AXIS VMS
AI, tracking and facial recognition specialist CyberLink has joined the FIDO Alliance which seeks to improve interoperability for authentication devices worldwide. The Taiwanese firm has also updated...
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More Indian states launch facial recognition tenders for public security...
Despite lingering concerns from rights advocates about the use of facial recognition in public places, the use of the technology for surveillance purposes seems to be gaining traction in India as two...
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Create trusted, seamless access control experiences with visual AI: a how-to...
Incorporating biometric technology into your access control system can solve some of these challenges, and it’s likely that you’ve done your research and product comparison on the various biometric...
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Hikvision surveillance tech under scrutiny again as new US sanctions rumored
The U.S. plans to impose tough sanctions on Hikvision, in further reaction to allegations of the Chinese biometric surveillance company’s involvement in human rights abuses, according to a new...
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Tally of facial recognition bans being overturned keeps growing
The high tide for U.S. restrictions on police use of facial recognition might have come and gone. Seventeen partial or total bans on municipal and county use exist today, and a year ago privacy and...
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Draft bill allows Israeli police access to face biometrics from public CCTV
Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation cleared a biometric surveillance bill on Sunday that will enable security services to access information from CCTV and use facial recognition without a...
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Researchers pitch combined biometrics to enable identification from blurred,...
As demand for remote identification via surveillance increases, a survey of academic work on biometrics including facial recognition and gait recognition finds the gaps in understanding for dealing...
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French Senate seeks to protect against biometric surveillance – with...
The French Senate Law Commission has released a contradictory report into biometrics that seeks both to ensure France does not become a country of mass biometric surveillance, while recommending a...
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Innovatrics and Blaize partner up for facial recognition security at the edge
Innovatrics partners with edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) company Blaize to build facial recognition applications for physical access control and public security. The technology...
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Facial recognition in Europe: what’s happening and how can people be protected?
Two new reports aim to establish the status quo of the use of facial recognition in Europe in public places and by law enforcement. They both seek to explore the nuances of the technology and its...
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Singapore data protection agency outlines responsible biometric security uses
The Singaporean Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has published a guideline for the responsible use of biometric data in security applications by residences, building owners, and security...
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Mayor of Nice calls for deployment of facial recognition following Stade de...
The Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi called for the deployment of facial recognition technologies to prevent situations similar to the violent Stade de France clashes, which took place in the city last...
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China’s biometric cameras still a source of concern and irritation in US, UK
The focus on alleged human rights abuses in China perpetrated using facial recognition systems has not softened for some. IPVM, one of the few publications, at least in the United States, to...
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Jerusalem Police blocked from facial recognition use at Pride March
Jerusalem Police requested to use live facial recognition to monitor the city’s gay March for Pride and Tolerance following threats of violence, when the request was ruled overly broad, Haaretz...
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Privatized surveillance pondered in one US city. A possible biometric ban in...
City officials in opposite corners of the United States are taking opposite stands on police use of surveillance systems. In Long Beach, California, the far southwest of the country, the Equity and...
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BriefCam video search with limited facial recognition licensed by Canadian...
Police in Thunder Bay, Canada, have announced a software upgrade to the force’s street surveillance program with an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system from BriefCam that performs automated...
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Real-time facial recognition surveillance planned in Ireland, moratorium...
New legislation is expected to open the door to the use of facial recognition within a range of surveillance technologies in Ireland, including CCTV cameras and police body cams, automatic number...
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Call to ban Chinese biometric camera suppliers from UK gets a parliamentary...
A UK parliamentary event was held Wednesday by Big Brother Watch on the official launch of a report into the dominance of Hikvision and other companies alleged to be complicit in human rights abuses...
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