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Pair of US politicians want face biometrics ripped out of public housing
Public housing officials around the world using biometric surveillance is largely the same as police using it except in one respect – the people being surveilled in public housing are virtually all...
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Facial recognition use in public spaces under the microscope in EAB event
The use of facial recognition in public spaces is one of the most controversial topics in the field of biometrics, and is being grappled with currently by regulators in several jurisdiction. The EAB,...
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US, Kyrgyzstan, India hunt criminals with facial recognition watchlists
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has reportedly used facial recognition and fingerprint biometric data to locate an alleged Bosnian war criminal who was living under an assumed name. The...
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French Senate votes in favor of public facial recognition pilot
The French Senate voted on Monday to adopt a draft law on testing facial recognition technology in public spaces. The law will allow judicial investigators and intelligence services to use remote...
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Cambodia’s dark history a pall over govt surveillance plans
Government critics and human rights advocates say Cambodia’s push to introduce facial recognition surveillance could be used against political opponents. Authorities could use facial recognition...
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Cameroon launches video surveillance with live facial recognition in largest...
An Annex facility of the National Command and Control Centre for Video Surveillance has gone operational in Douala in a move which seeks to counter the spiralling wave of urban insecurity in the...
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Discredited biometric surveillance project in Malta closed, but is it?
Facial recognition networks might bring tiny Malta more security from street crime someday but right now it's caught in a political mess that has some residents worried about the EU nation's...
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Futurist says drones with biometrics will be deployed against mass shootings
Futurist and celebrity speaker Thomas Frey is hailing a new solution for the epidemic of mass shootings in the United States that sounds straight from an episode of Black Mirror: Artificial...
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ECJ hits Russia with human rights violations due to facial recognition use
The European Court of Human Rights (ECJ) has decided unanimously that Russia is guilty of human rights violations due to use of facial recognition technology against a Russian citizen who held a solo...
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South African province deploys biometrics to identify unclaimed bodies,...
The government of South Africa’s smallest province, Gauteng, has launched a fingerprint biometrics system that will enable health authorities easily identify abandoned or unclaimed bodies in different...
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Philippines unveils new CCTV system command center, plans facial recognition...
A massive video surveillance communications and command center with more than 400 high-definition CCTV cameras has gone operational in Pasig City, a highly urban area in the National Capital Region of...
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UN High Commissioner says facial recognition could lead to destruction of...
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has touted the potential negative impact of facial recognition systems, saying these could lead to “mass surveillance of our public spaces,...
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$1.9M a month bid wins contract for São Paulo 20K camera biometric...
Brazil’s vibrant financial center São Paulo is preparing to deploy 20,000 facial recognition cameras designed to increase public safety. But civil rights organizations are raising concerns that the...
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Global spike in predictive policing draws on AI and biometrics
In China, authorities are making notable use of biometrics and AI in policing and security, with potential implications for human rights. Radio Free Asia reports that visitors to the 19th Asian Games,...
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More reports that Hikvision, Nvidia still involved in China ethnic surveillance
There is a new account about how China's Hikvision biometric surveillance firm continues to specifically target that nation's Uyghur population with Hikvision facial recognition systems using Nvidia...
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US schools embrace biometric tools to fight gun violence
School security in the United States has never looked more like a Robocop movie, with schoolboards turning to technological solutions for the problem of chronic mass shootings. Working on the...
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Vendor claims 3-year ROI on retail facial recognition deployment
Amid a worrying rise in retail crime, retailers are adopting facial biometrics as a preventive measure. A case study from RecFaces shows that such systems can identify thieves and reduce theft-related...
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Bermuda adds live facial recognition to CCTV network
Bermuda is planning a $4 million project to upgrade its CCTV network, equipping it with facial and license-plate recognition algorithms. The country is planning to install 265 cameras within the next...
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Governments, vendors less skittish about promoting facial recognition sales
News of Colombia's decision to buy facial recognition software from a Spanish company for its national police force lacks one point common in virtually all previous announcements by other nations....
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eConnect and CasinoTrac integrate facial recognition to improve casino...
eConnect has collaborated with CasinoTrac, integrating real-time casino data with facial recognition. This joint venture, recently rolled out in what the partners describe as a major Native American...
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