Human Rights Watch calls on China to shut down “Police Cloud”
The Chinese government is using a “Police Cloud” of big data platforms to aggregate and analyze citizen’s personal information on…
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Human Rights Watch raises privacy concerns over Chinese voice recognition program
China’s government is collecting “voice pattern” samples from its citizens to build a database for use with voice recognition technology,…
Rights groups concerned over UK’s plan to use biometric age estimation on migrants
Rights groups and social work experts are expressing concerns about the UK’s plans to introduce biometric facial age estimation for…
Norway’s data privacy watchdog seeks ban on remote biometric identification
Norway is exploring stronger regulations on AI – and a potential ban on biometric recognition technology for surveillance. A translated…
UK human rights regulator to argue against police use of live facial recognition
The UK’s human rights regulator has received permission to intervene in an upcoming judicial review examining whether the London Metropolitan…
Armenia approves real-time FRT surveillance amid rights concerns
Armenia’s parliament has passed controversial amendments to the country’s Law on Police, granting the Ministry of Internal Affairs round-the-clock access…
Facewatch comes under the public eye again
Biometric security company Facewatch will provide its technology to UK retailer Iceland. News of a new client comes only a…
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…
Rights concerns trigger facial recognition reviews in Paraguay, Balkans and Hungary
Facial recognition is being used more around the world but with this increased usage comes concerns over issues such as…
Toppan and Digital Domain team up to produce virtual humans to work
If you think robots and AI will replace humans, then how about virtual humans? Hong Kong-based Digital Domain and Japanese…
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