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Shanghai creates digital twin for police with live surveillance feeds
Scientists in China have created a hyper-realistic digital twin of Shanghai with the help of 3D game creation tool Unreal Engine. The virtual city allows law enforcement agencies to act fast during...
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Milestone adds anonymization with brighter AI acquisition
Milestone Systems has acquired brighter AI, a Berlin-based provider of anonymization solutions for video data. The deep learning technology helps to protect people’s identities in public. Its Deep...
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Oversight measures passed to monitor NYPD surveillance tech expansion
In a significant move towards enhancing transparency and accountability, the New York City Council passed a suite of bills this week that are aimed at regulating the New York Police Department’s...
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Hungary to use FRT provider with links to PM for LGBTQ+ surveillance
Hungary has passed legislation targeting the LGBTQ community, including banning annual Pride marches which can now be surveilled by facial recognition. On Monday, Hungarian lawmakers amended the...
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Texas’ expanding AI surveillance state outpaces legislative oversight
In recent years, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly constructed a powerful and far-reaching surveillance network that increasingly relies on AI to monitor people, places, and...
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Live facial recognition should shape future of policing, says former UK PM
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is a fan of live facial recognition. A report in The Times quotes Blair saying that the controversial biometric technology “boosts response times and helps identify...
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Rights concerns trigger facial recognition reviews in Paraguay, Balkans and...
Facial recognition is being used more around the world but with this increased usage comes concerns over issues such as transparency, privacy, data use and human rights. Hungarian plans for facial...
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Facial recognition OK for FC Copenhagen football matches at home and away
FC Copenhagen is now allowed to use facial recognition at its football matches, following a review in the Data Council by the Danish Data Protection Agency. The football club applied to the regulator...
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Huawei, Hikvision, Dahua face lawsuit for role in Uyghur biometric surveillance
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) – an international organization defending the interest of Uyghur people in and out of China - has filed a petition against a trio of Chinese technology giants namely...
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New York senate committee advances ban on police use of biometric surveillance
The New York Senate Internet and Technology Committee has taken a decisive legislative step to confront the rapidly expanding use of biometric surveillance technologies by law enforcement. Senate Bill...
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US police tracking people using AI that identifies non-biometric attributes
U.S. state and local police departments are using an AI model that helps them evade facial recognition prohibitions. MIT Technology Review reports on how police forces and universities across the U.S....
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Asda supermarket chain faces legal complaint over facial recognition
Asda is facing a legal complaint over its use of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in its supermarkets. The legal filing comes from privacy rights group Big Brother Watch, which argues that Asda’s...
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Obtaining consent to collect facial recognition data ‘impractical,’ says...
One of Australia’s most high profile court cases over facial recognition in retail continues to see volleys exchanged between the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and major...
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ICE is at the center of a vast and growing US biometric surveillance capability
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly emerged as the operational nucleus of a vast, fragmented, and increasingly automated biometric surveillance architecture across the United...
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Manchester police reprimanded for poor data handling after losing CCTV footage
A reprimand has been issued to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) over what the UK Information Commissioner’s Office calls “serious shortcomings in how they handle CCTV footage.” The shortcomings in...
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New Zealand’s privacy watchdog okays Foodstuffs facial recognition trial
The facial recognition system used by New Zealand’s supermarket chain Foodstuffs to prevent retail crime is compliant with privacy rules but questions still remain about bias and negative impacts on...
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Police, federal video surveillance of anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles raise...
In the wake of escalating protests in Los Angeles over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and broader immigration enforcement policies, civil liberties advocates and technologists...
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NZ retailers adopt FRT to fight retail crime following privacy commissioner...
A host of major New Zealand retailers are signing up to deploy facial recognition technology in their stores. The bosses of Briscoes, Bunnings, Farmers, Mitre 10, Michael Hill, One NZ, Spark and The...
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Biometric tools shift from control to resistance
In the accelerating age of facial recognition technology (FRT), a growing counter-surveillance movement is flipping the script on who gets to use these tools and for what purpose. This shift is...
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Canada directs Hikvision to stop local operations
Canada has ordered Hikvision Canada to cease all operations in the country and close its Canadian business. Canada’s Industry Minister Mélanie Joly ordered the closure following a government review...
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