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AI surveillance in US schools becoming the safe bet
Maybe recognizing that many U.S. communities will gamble the privacy of school-aged children for promises of safety on campus, AI skeptics are beseeching parents to at least challenge vendor pitches....
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Facial recognition coming to home venue of Adelaide United Football Club
A third stadium in Australia has implemented facial recognition as an enhanced security measure. A release says Cooper’s Stadium, located in Adelaide and home to Adelaide United Football Club, will...
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Ukraine prepares law to unify its biometric surveillance systems
Ukraine is preparing a law that will help it unify its public video surveillance system – and sparking concerns among non-governmental organizations about the extent of biometric data collection. The...
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Hailo chooses Visidon to enhance video quality in low-light conditions
Hailo is integrating Visidon’s low-light video enhancement technology into its Hailo-15 AI vision processor to advance AI-powered video analytics for smart cameras, particularly in challenging...
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Bitel launches smart city project in Peru
Bitel, a major telecom in Peru, has invested $70,000 in a smart city project involving facial recognition in Trujillo, specifically in the District Municipality of Salaverry. This surveillance...
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Buenos Aires’ controversial facial recognition network remains in limbo
The future of Buenos Aires' controversial public facial recognition system, which has been used to spy on civil society members and has led to erroneous arrests, is still uncertain. In February, a...
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Cameroon wants €50M to expand facial recognition surveillance project
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has asked his Minister of Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, to source funding to the tune of €50 million for a video surveillance project with live facial recognition. In a...
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Florida town installs live facial recognition to protect against 3 trespassers
Lakeland, Florida is not known as a particularly violent city. It does not appear on lists of America’s most crime-ridden towns. But it is home to one of the first installations of real-time public...
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Leaked documents reveal details on Russia’s upcoming surveillance system
The Kremlin is spending millions of dollars on facial recognition-powered surveillance that can track its citizens. A new cache of leaked documents has now revealed the extent of involvement of...
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RecFaces Id-Guard boosts security at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Peru
Facial recognition software provider RecFaces has announced its Id-Guard solution will be used at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru for security. Jorge Chávez International Airport sees...
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CBP awards Sentrillion $11.7M for surveillance systems
Security company Sentrillion Corporation has won a 12-month contract valued at up to $11.7 million from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB): Office of Information and Technology, a branch of...
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AI surveillance robot uses facial recognition to decide who to blast with...
Those pining for a life as an eccentric shut-in with robots guarding their house can rejoice at the emergence of a new biometric home security tool. Popular Science reports on PaintCam Eve, an...
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UN says law enforcement should not use biometrics to surveil protestors
Law enforcement agencies should not use biometric technology to categorize, profile or remotely identify individuals during protests, the United Nations says in a document outlining how police should...
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Paris Olympics: Second AI surveillance test completed
In preparation for the Olympics, Paris has tested its AI surveillance systems deploying crowd surveillance technology during two large events. With police authorization, rail company SNCG and...
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Bermuda’s CCTV system delayed until end of July
Bermuda's CCTV security system will not be fully operational until the end of July, over half a year later than initially anticipated, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Security said in a...
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Civil rights groups want facial recognition technology banned in New York State
A group of major civil rights organizations in New York is pushing for a statewide ban on the use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies by law enforcement, residential buildings,...
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Police in Germany using live facial recognition
Police in Germany are employing high-definition cameras and live facial recognition to catch suspects, raising legal questions in the wake of the European Union’s AI Act. The system, which is deployed...
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Biometric surveillance testing data sparks ethics concerns in Germany
Even the tests for Germany’s adoption of real-time facial recognition are prompting criticism that the country is failing to meet the data privacy and ethics standard it has set for itself. Following...
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Paris rolls out AI surveillance for Taylor Swift
Pop superstar Taylor Swift had her concert in Paris guarded by AI-powered video surveillance as the city prepares for heightened security risks during the Summer Olympics 2024. The French police...
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