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Promise Technology demos AI storage systems for biometric applications
Promise Technology, a company specializing in advanced data storage systems, is demonstrating its AI-driven storage platform designed for biometric applications like facial recognition, voice...
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India govt blocks plans to procure facial recognition, drones to monitor...
A request by the government of India’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) to acquire surveillance technology including drones and biometrics for election security has been blocked by the Election...
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Biometric surveillance options increase for US police
Proving that it is not always good to be right, public and private video surveillance is gaining critical mass in U.S. cities and towns, just as privacy advocates have warned. Sensors over highways,...
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Spanish data authority opposes facial recognition for football stadium access
Authorities running LaLiga, Spain’s top tier football league, announced last year they will deploy a facial recognition system at stadiums for fan access, but the plan is being seriously questioned by...
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Facial recognition planned for all stadiums in Italy’s top football league
Italy’s top professional soccer (aka football) league will deploy facial recognition at all stadiums in order to enforce bans of fans violating league rules, its chief executive says. Luigi De Siervo,...
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Sprawling biometric privacy legal assault on camera maker churns on
A U.S. privacy case in state court that accuses a Chinese surveillance camera maker of “corporate voyeurism” has been narrowed to the benefit of the defendant. More generally, the defendant is accused...
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Amazon of 2 minds with law enforcement deals – fleeing locally, selling...
This week brought news that Amazon, on the one hand, appears to be selling AI services to the FBI, and on the other, curtailing Ring video access for local police. There may be a business strategy...
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Greek football looks to digital ID ticketing, video surveillance to curb...
Football fans in Greece intending to watch games in stadiums may have to buy match tickets using a government digital ID app launched in 2022. As reported by AP, this course of action is being taken...
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India’s most controversial temple secured by facial recognition
On Wednesday, city authorities in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh officially inaugurated the Hindu temple of Ram, built on the ruins of a 16th-century mosque destroyed by violent mobs in 1992. The opening of...
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Bahamas, Guyana eye facial recognition surveillance projects to fight crime
Prime Minister Philip Davis of The Bahamas has called on citizens to accept and support a government surveillance project which includes facial recognition, justifying that the system would enhance...
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Taking shots at the AI Act from the biometric sidelines
A problem with trying to create a legislative super-regime like the EU’s AI Act is that every aspect of the law is so complex that anyone can mount a winning ideological attack on it. The lawmaking is...
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A new way to thwart facial recognition targets surveillance camera sensors
As facial recognition surveillance spreads, researchers and privacy-minded individuals have been trying to come up with ways to thwart the technology, using masks, garish makeup, flamboyant clothing...
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Soft biometrics experts wanted on teams tabling proposals for IARPA video...
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the government’s intelligence research arm, is in the early stages of developing new re-identification algorithms to track people,...
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Expansive facial recognition surveillance coming to Hong Kong, Bahrain, South...
The use of facial recognition technology for law enforcement has proven controversial, but not enough to deter authorities around the globe from implementing new FRT schemes to tighten security and...
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Buenos Aires’s facial recognition system to be examined by court
Buenos Aires' notorious facial recognition system, which has been deployed to track journalists, politicians and activists, is due to be examined by a court next Wednesday. The hearing is set to...
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Indian Railways coaches to get 175K facial recognition cameras
India has monumental biometric surveillance plans for its equally monumental railway system. The government has posted a tender to make Indian Railways one of the, if not the most surveilled property...
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Lenovo AI Innovator Graymatics debuts in the Sunlight app library
Sunlight.io announced that Graymatics, a CCTV-based video analytics solutions company, can now be deployed, managed and updated from the centralized Sunlight application library. Both are part of the...
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Are Indian police using facial recognition to identify protesting farmers?
Police in Ambala, in India’s state of Haryana have announced that they have begun the process to cancel passports and visas against those caught causing disturbances or breaking barricades on CCTV or...
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France runs AI surveillance tests at concerts ahead of Olympic deployment
The games have not yet begun, but AI-assisted video surveillance is already being tested by police in Paris, as organizers look to beef up security measures ahead of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games...
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