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Synesis to appeal EU sanctions over misuse of its facial recognition software
Belarusian biometrics company Synesis is getting its day in court. According to Intelligence Online, the firm will get a hearing before the EU Court of Justice, to fight sanctions imposed on it for...
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LAPD has compliance issues; other departments move ahead with facial recognition
Local police in the United States continue to update and sign new biometric surveillance contracts despite instances of vocal opposition. And a chief concern that privacy advocates have about the...
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US blacklists Tiandy Technologies as Intel washes its hands
Tiandy Technologies, one of the largest video surveillance suppliers in the world, joins its surveillance compatriots Dahua and Hikvision on the U.S. Commerce Department blacklist, for allowing the...
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Serbian rights group warns of implications in biometric surveillance act
The nonprofit Share Foundation has published a new position paper warning against the biometric surveillance implications of a draft law on internal affairs proposed by Serbia's Ministry of Interior...
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China’s political biometric ID surveillance grows in scope and tech
A surveillance systems company unfamiliar outside its native China is coming into view as Beijing pushes biometrics recognition into more areas of the country. Mass DNA collections are also underway,...
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Innovatrics and Hailo collaborate on edge facial recognition for security,...
Innovatrics is partnering with Hailo to develop facial recognition solutions with high energy efficiency and easy deployment for public security and access control. The partners will work together to...
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Smart home facial recognition system processes biometric data locally to...
Smart home devices are now smart enough to process image data without sending it into the cloud, according to a news release announcing the launch of Orchestrait, a privacy-safe facial recognition...
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Irish PM pushes laws to allow police body cams, license plate recognition
Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said he intends to expedite the enactment of legislation to clarify the wearing of body cams by police to increase prosecutions and to protect officers,...
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US politicians want biometric surveillance tamed, but voices are fainter
Opponents of the use of facial recognition algorithms by law enforcement in the United States may not be in a rearguard posture, but that day may be near. A trio of federal Democratic legislators and...
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Malta deep-sixes safe city facial recognition project after Huawei contract...
Malta appears to have changed course on a plan to launch a CCTV network with facial recognition through a contract with Huawei. The Safe City Malta project is being discontinued after the contract...
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Biometric access control in Cancún could spill out into the region
Digital identity software maker Pangiam and fiber-optic managed services firm GigNet have agreed to partner to deploy access control biometrics in Mexico's 800-acre multi-use development, Puerto...
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Surveillance states: life in the facial recognition spotlight in China, Iran...
Police activity following November’s anti COVID-19 policy protests in China suggest they are using new surveillance techniques. Concerns are increasing in Iran over the likelihood of authorities...
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What everyone needs to know about facial recognition
The National Press Foundation recently held an event to help inform the news media about facial recognition. How fully it wants to inform people in the media, however, seems open to debate. A pair of...
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Innovatrics launches edge facial recognition for high-performance remote...
Innovatrics has launched edge facial recognition software to deliver high-performance directly on cameras or devices connected to them. The new SmartFace Embedded saves both hardware and bandwidth...
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Company’s ‘enemies list’ enforced with facial recognition prompts legal...
Madison Square Garden’s use of facial recognition to enforce an ‘enemies list’ has sparked a legal battle and growing scrutiny of the deployment, and the technology itself. Attorneys barred from MSG...
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French MPs prefer specific law on facial recognition for 2024 Olympics
French senators were set to vote last Wednesday January 18 to endorse a government plan to deploy algorithmic facial recognition technology during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, per Politico....
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Another state lets county police farm out face biometrics matching to others
A county sheriff's office in the U.S. state of Minnesota is helping other law enforcement agencies in the state with face matching. According to broadcaster CBS Minnesota, the sheriff's office in...
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South Korea privacy watchdog warns against public facial recognition deployments
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) warned earlier today against the country's plans to deploy facial recognition for public institutions. The NHRCK has asked the speaker of the...
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How China outsells everyone on facial recognition surveillance
Global manufacturers, consultants and researchers in the facial recognition industry looking to profit from AI surveillance algorithms have a new resource. Although a new analysis by iconic U.S....
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NYPD fleet to become 360-degree surveillance hubs, cops film Drake concert goers
The New York Police Department has given a preview of its new vehicles which will include 360-degree surveillance. The news coincides with the police force causing controversy after filming people...
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