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Hot market seen for biometrics and temperature scanning after Shanghai lockdown
As China pursues the ‘zero Covid’ strategy that locked down Shanghai for two months, analysts quoted by the South China Morning Post say there is a great appetite for biometric cameras that detect...
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Public face biometrics increase in Brazil, scrutinized for biases, rights impact
Face biometrics deployments in Brazil have been multiplying over the last two years and are proving increasingly controversial for their scope and discrimination. In January 2022, the Military Police...
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Biometrics deployments for retail and hospitality increasing amid heightened...
Businesses across Australia, South and North America, and Asia are in the spotlight for their efforts to encourage the adoption of biometric technologies for a wide range of retail and hospitality...
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‘Hope’ in the UK that Chinese surveillance cameras will be ripped out of...
The China biometric surveillance story gets grimmer with every investigation, report and news story. Angst is growing among some in Western governments about how deeply Chinese biometric surveillance...
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A couple big wins for skeptics of government use of facial recognition
In a surprise to some, elected officials in Colorado and New Orleans are telling proponents of face biometrics that personal privacy can outbalance the need by law enforcement and other government...
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Amazon Ring still bothers senator and BIPA sparks another suit against the...
Nascar has left turns and sunburns. British royals have questionable hats and another palace somewhere. Japan has stuffed subways and AI toilets. Amazon inevitably has lawsuits and a new letter from...
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Biometric surveillance normalization in China could spread, Brookings warns
A new investigation by the New York Times has revealed how China is conducting biometric mass surveillance on a scale even broader than previously understood. Personal data, including DNA, facial...
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School security summit pushes object and facial recognition tech, leans on...
On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court made it easier to carry a concealed firearm, a panel including four education, security, law and biometrics insiders discussed the grim business of limiting...
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Russia uses its facial recognition system to show reporters who’s the boss
In a nation where journalists who refuse to take the Kremlin's line are sometimes murdered, news of reporters being surveilled by Russian government facial recognition system can seem like a minor...
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Facial recognition in casinos under scrutiny in Australia after complaint...
Casinos in Australia have fallen under scrutiny for the lack of regulation around their use of face biometrics technologies to identify ‘problem’ gamblers. The Star Casino in Sydney deployed the...
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New York school districts plan facial recognition security despite ban
A moratorium on the use of facial recognition in New York State schools has not prevented a pair of districts from receiving approval to deploy systems that use the technology, according to the New...
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UN Human Rights Committee expected to question Ireland’s plans for facial...
Irish officials may be questioned over the country’s plans for facial recognition technology for surveillance during a session with the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva this week. The...
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Carnegie Mellon draft policy would allow biometric surveillance on campus
Campus police would be allowed to use biometric surveillance on campus for criminal investigations under a new draft policy. The proposal, obtained by PublicSource, is supposed to “detect, prevent and...
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Delhi Police criticized by watchdog over ‘patently incorrect’ replies on...
India’s Central Information Commission (CIC) has criticized the Delhi Police for giving “patently incorrect” replies to Right to Information (RTI) requests on its use of face detection technology...
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Facial recognition moratoriums, bans and un-bans wash across the United States
Unlike most sophomore technologies in the United States, it is getting harder to predict where facial recognition will be in five years, or maybe even three years. This is especially true for...
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Facial recognition in crime-fighting from Corsight with only 50 pixels of face
The latest episode of Frontline Fightback, a series on the use of technology in crime-fighting on the top UK television channel BBC One, included Corsight AI in its discussion of the use of facial...
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Myanmar expands facial recognition-ready surveillance ‘safe cities’
Myanmar is creating five more ‘safe city’ surveillance schemes across the country using technology from the Chinese firms Dahua, Huawei and Hikvision, reports Reuters. The cameras are described as...
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India’s RailTel plans facial recognition deployment at over 6K stations
India’s railways operator has unveiled a massive planned expansion of facial recognition camera systems across the country, eventually expected to reach 6,049 stations. RailTel announced that the...
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Amazon defends Ring data sharing practices to US Senator, leaves voice...
Amazon has shared video footage from Ring door devices with police 11 times this year through an emergency-request process that does not require consent from the device owner. Revelations in a letter...
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Princeton Identity offers advice for biometric upgrades to commercial real...
Biometric identity solutions can be part of a premium experience for commercial property tenants and their visitors, according to Princeton Identity. The company has published a white paper to help...
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