It sounds like the US has Hikvision’s attention
In a surprising move, a Chinese maker of video and biometric surveillance systems and under sanction by the U.S. government…
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New face biometric systems spread around borders but Congress has questions
In December, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency announced that it had deployed biometric facial comparison systems to four…
China intensifies biometrics, video surveillance research as social credit market builds
China leads all other nations in publishing research on the visual surveillance of populations, one of the most controversial segments…
Face biometrics panel in US realizes it has bitten off quite a lot to chew
A commission in Massachusetts debating the use of face biometrics by police has found that the topic is more freighted…
Foreigners, users of car services likely in Russia’s biometric crosshairs
Bit by bit, face biometrics is being massaged into Russia’s economy. In the private sector, national politicians want taxi services…
Chinese regulators vying to be the hub of control over AI
China is again drawing appreciative commentary about its AI governance. Not a lot is being written on the topic, but…
Parents suing Facebook allege it profited from kids’ biometric data
A new federal class action lawsuit charges Facebook executives were until recently greedy hijackers of children’s personal data, including biometrics,…
U.S. sheriffs continue to buy into iris biometrics systems to identify suspects, inmates
A biometrics vendor says that more than two thirds of all U.S. sheriffs’ agencies have asked to join a nationwide…
Storing personally identifiable data needed for authentication wins a patent
A patent has been issued for a way of storing anonymized identifiers rather than storing personally identifiable information. It is…
Florida bill would let police help hospitals biometrically ID the unidentifiable
A bill in the Florida state house would allow hospitals to request biometric identification of unidentifiable patients. Any law enforcement…
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