SIA warns Congress against facial recognition moratorium as Huawei warns...
U.S. Congress should not place a moratorium on facial recognition technology, but instead collaborate with all stakeholders to address concerns...
View ArticleThousands of cameras from banned companies operating in U.S. facilities as...
There are currently more than 2,700 cameras from companies banned from U.S. government contracts are still in operation at military...
View ArticleMinnesota Drone Bill allows warrantless biometric use in specific circumstances
Under a new bill unanimously passed by the Minnesota joint House-Senate Subcommittee on Data Practices, no state or local law...
View ArticleHong Kong police facial recognition contract with iOmniscient reported by...
As protests continue to be held in Hong Kong against recent government actions, Bloomberg reports that Sydney-based iOmniscient is supplying...
View ArticlePolice consider facial recognition in Denmark, Sweden, Romania, but bias...
Copenhagen police could gain a “huge advantage” in investigations by implementing a biometric facial recognition system to scan footage from...
View ArticleIndia delays facial recognition tender deadline as Russian systems roll out
A contract to supply biometric technology to India’s new national facial recognition system has not been awarded as planned, as...
View ArticlePolice in Miami, India, Macau expand facial recognition use amid further...
The Miami-Dade County Police Department (MDPD), Florida’s largest police force, is seeking to join the many departments in the state...
View ArticleAmaryllo launches biometric security camera with voice recognition
Dutch robotics and biometric security company Amaryllo has won a 2020 CES Innovation Award in the event’s Smart Home and...
View ArticleDeployment starts for VSBLTY’s $10M facial recognition smart city contract...
Partners VSBLTY and intelligent lighting solution provider Energetika have begun deploying their smart city security systems in Mexico City under...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan and Dominican tap Chinese biometric surveillance tech as concern...
The role of Chinese businesses in facial recognition systems in other countries is drawing attention, with a report on Kyrgyzstan’s...
View ArticleViisights secures $10M to strengthen behavioral recognition systems for...
AI technology developer Viisights has raised $10 million in Series-A funding that will be spent on further developing behavioral recognition...
View ArticleSmart home facial recognition camera and fingerprint locks launched for U.S....
Several new biometrics-based consumer devices have been introduced to the U.S. market for smart home and smart lock applications, as...
View ArticleHacked public Wi-Fi provider now in charge of facial recognition server...
Maxima Telecom, a Russian technology company that offers free public Wi-Fi in Moscow and St. Petersburg, will also be responsible...
View ArticlePolice facial recognition ruling appealed in Wales, ban delayed in Portland,...
Pushback against facial recognition use by police sits at various stages in countries around the world this week. A Welsh...
View ArticleEFF launches campaign for local bans on government use of facial recognition
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a campaign to empower people in the U.S. working against the use of...
View ArticleVsblty to provide biometric technology for ZA smart city projects as shape of...
Vsblty has announced a pair of security deployments as part of safe community initiatives in South Africa, including biometric facial...
View ArticleStandards for biometric surveillance being drafted for ITU by Chinese businesses
Technology companies based in China are working to shape United Nations’ standards for facial recognition, video monitoring, and surveillance of...
View ArticleSAFR exec on global opportunities and responsibilities of facial biometrics
SAFR has come a long way from its genesis as a project to build a facial recognition feature for a...
View ArticleFacial recognition avoided by Spanish smart city project, planned in...
Police in Marbella, Spain are using computer vision analysis of gait, clothes gender, and hair color, but not biometric facial...
View ArticleSurveillance cameras to reach 1 billion by 2021 as face biometrics for...
There will be one billion surveillance cameras in operation around the world by 2021, up nearly 30 percent from 770...
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