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US schools increasingly turn to facial recognition in search of safety
Schools in Montana are using facial recognition from Verkada in an attempt to improve safety, though officials are unsure how many, the Daily Montanan reports. The article suggests up to 30 schools...
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Surprises in China’s ongoing biometric surveillance of its Uyghurs
Chinese surveillance system maker Dahua is responding to an industry trade publication that allegedly found evidence Dahua systems are at least marketed as products that can identify race, skin color...
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Aussie pols pushing against facial recognition in gambling rooms; industry...
An effort in Australia promoted as a new way to help gamblers who cannot stop themselves from wagering is not going over well with some privacy advocates. The initiative, reportedly favored by the...
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India opens bids on $4M contract for facial recognition and security cameras...
The Public Works Department of Delhi, India, has launched a tender for 1,248 CCTV cameras, some with facial recognition, to be installed across the Tihar, Mandoli and Rohini prison complexes for an...
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Entrenched positions on biometric surveillance in NY schools aired
The U.S. state of New York's IT services agency listened last week to testimony about putting biometric ID and surveillance systems in a school district near famed Niagara Falls. The feedback is...
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Trinidad and Tobago builds $12M 2,500 CCTV facial recognition camera grid to...
A new network of 2,500 CCTV cameras and facial recognition software are being installed in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago at a cost of TT$80 million (US$11.7 million), reports the...
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Plans for biometric surveillance reach epic scales with off-putting implications
A pair of troubling reports about plans for intensive biometric surveillance seem drawn from the nightmares of privacy advocates. The premier of a South Africa province that includes Johannesburg and...
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Retail video analytics investment defies market trend with Vsblty raise,...
A biometrics company, Vsblty Groupe, has pulled in what likely is one of the last rounds of funding in North America this year. It is a small third tranche, but it is private equity when many other...
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On-demand webinar – Biometrics at the Edge
Edge computing is one of the major trends in infrastructure for IT systems, including those that use artificial intelligence. But what is edge computing, and by extension edge AI? Why is it being...
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Contextual analytics helps achieve holistic understanding of video in real...
Semantic segmentation can enable contextual analytics to gain a holistic understanding of video footage in real time, improving artificial intelligence (AI) performance in video analytics. Oosto's...
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US biometric surveillance database reaches 10,000 data points
A privacy advocate's database counting the United States government bodies that surveil citizens' biometric identifiers reportedly now has 9,850 data points. The Atlas of Surveillance, created by the...
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Veritone buys Vision Semantics, gets Deloitte nod for growth
Veritone says it has bought video recognition company Vision Semantics and is releasing Tracker, an object video recognition tool based on Vision technology. The artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm...
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Facial recognition ruled out for 2024 Olympics and Paralympics by French...
France’s Ministry of Sport confirmed that the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris will not make use of facial recognition as a security measure. Quoted in Le Parisienne, Minister of Sport...
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UK government moves against Chinese-made security cameras in public sector
The UK Government Security Group has instructed government departments to stop deploying security cameras provided by Chinese companies subject to the country’s National Intelligence Law to sensitive...
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Eufy doorbell cameras uploading facial recognition data to the cloud without...
If you use Eufy security cameras, they may be sending biometric information to the cloud despite claims to “keep data local,” according to a report on 9 to 5 Google, which details an ongoing...
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Rank One gets nod on ISO-IEC biometric PAD standard, wins a school security...
Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing says its single-frame passive liveness detection algorithm complies with level 1 ISO-IEC face presentation attack detection standards. In an unrelated...
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Unflattering spotlight grows brighter on Chinese biometric surveillance firms
The pressure campaign to get Chinese facial recognition firm Tiandy Technologies on a sanctions or export control list has not waned. A U.S. pro-democracy group has issued a lengthy memo making the...
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Cybersecurity concerns for access control rise as biometrics solutions grow
Physical security is “mission critical” for firms according to the 2022 State of Physical Security Report from Canada-based access control company Genetec. In the document, the firm also highlights...
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Invisibility cloak hides wearer from biometric cameras and exposes security...
Move over, Harry Potter: students at Wuhan University in China have won an award for developing a virtual invisibility cloak, which conceals anyone wearing it from artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Facial recognition powers domestic operations for China’s growing...
So far, protesters calling for change in the Chinese government have yet to face the tanks and guns that were used in Tiananmen Square in 1989 — but they are up against a quieter, more pervasive...
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