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Facial blindness is a rare syndrome in humans, but very common among...
By Moshe Ofry, VP Engineering, Oosto Prosopagnosia has become famous recently following Brad Pitt's confession that he suffers from the syndrome. Facial blindness is very common among companies and...
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New adversarial mask designs evade facial recognition systems
Fabric face masks covering the nose and mouth and printed with adversarial patterns evade facial recognition systems more than 96 percent of the time, find Israeli researchers. Initially stumped by...
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China, Russia, India: facial recognition surveillance projects far from the...
Unmanned police surveillance vehicles patrol a city in Xinjiang, a Russian city in the Arctic Circle deploys a powerful facial recognition network and the southern Indian state of Telangana continues...
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Researcher cautions African govts against biometric surveillance without...
African governments must press on with efforts to put in place robust data protection regulations if they continue to deploy biometric surveillance and other smart city technologies, writes Bulelani...
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Who’s watching the US DOJ’s use of facial recognition? Hint, the ACLU plays a...
Law enforcement agencies in several U.S. jurisdictions have engaged with the ACLU to formulate their policies for facial recognition use. This emerging pattern can be traced to advice from the federal...
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‘Never mind’ — Carnegie Mellon after floating facial recognition policy
Carnegie Mellon University officials reportedly have said they have never used facial recognition technology and, after community feedback, have decided not to do so. CMU, according to the New...
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Facial recognition still gets mixed reception on retail floors
Two retailers in Australia have temporarily halted use of facial recognition systems on their floors as they are investigated for possibly breaking national privacy laws. At the same time, a United...
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Another AI security company creates an ethics policy for code development and...
Physical and digital security vendor Prosegur Security says it is getting serious about responsible AI, creating a responsible AI policy and hiring a chief ethics officer. Still in the works, the...
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Leak reveals Western companies with face biometrics licenses from Russia’s...
Intel, SpaceX, Philip Morris, and several other U.S. companies were spotted in a leaked database of companies that obtained a license to use FindFace, a facial recognition tool developed by Russian...
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Telecom Egypt introduces staff, visitor facial recognition via RecFaces partner
Telecom Egypt has installed facial recognition on security cameras at a new data center via a newly-approved reseller of Dubai-based RecFaces technology in the country. Staff of Egyptian systems...
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NYPD to produce biometric monitoring of protesters or reply individually why...
The state Supreme Court has ordered the New York Police Department to hand over 2,700 documents from 2020 related the use of facial recognition and other biometric technology reportedly used to...
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West Virginia schools to deploy Rank One facial recognition for security...
Schools in Marion County, West Virginia will pilot live facial recognition from Rank One Computing for visitor management and threat detection, local outlet WDTV reports, following approval by school...
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‘Digital asbestos’: UK government departments are rolling back on contracts...
Campaigners are increasing the pressure for the UK government to take action on Chinese state-affiliated surveillance equipment suppliers such as Hikvision and Dahua. Certain government departments...
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San Diego finds a compromise on biometric surveillance, but skeptics remain
An accommodation between the right to privacy and the government's duty to protect has been reached on the use of biometric surveillance in the southern Californian city of San Diego. It will require...
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Iveda wins $3M in video surveillance, facial recognition contracts in Taiwan,...
U.S.-based Iveda has won $3 million in contracts from Taiwan’s government for video surveillance systems, including facial recognition. The Nasdaq-traded company has also announced a $5 million...
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India’s military monitors disputed borders with facial recognition
India is expanding plans to revolutionize the way its troops carry out operations along its borders with China and Pakistan by deploying more artificial intelligence-based technologies and other smart...
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Hikvision security camera deployments come under scrutiny in New Zealand
The use of Hikvision security cameras is being reviewed by some organizations in New Zealand, following the UK recently rolling back on some contracts with the company. The rationale behind the...
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Australian hospitality venues argue facial recognition deployments will help...
Representatives of New South Wales pubs and clubs say they want further deployments of facial recognition technologies to tackle problem drinking and problem gambling. The executives shared their...
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Move a little to your left. Turn your head. Perfect! Recreating crimes with...
What happens if facial recognition surveillance cameras only capture a crime suspect from a too-oblique angle to make a confident identification? In India, the police can have the subject recreate the...
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Has Amazon got a reality show for you! And you’re the camera operator.
What if all the talk in the United States about one's right to biometric privacy is limited to advocates, academics, some journalists, a minority of elected officials and a proportionately small...
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