Amazon shareholder proposal requests civil rights review before selling facial recognition tech
A shareholder proposal organized by corporate activist non-profit Open MIC asks that Amazon halt its sales of facial recognition technology…
Facial Recognition
A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a two- or three-dimensional digital image or a frame from a video source. It is typically used in security systems alone or in combination with other factors. Can also be used to perform liveness detection. Find facial recognition solutions here.
Computer vision startup alwaysAI raises $4M for IoT development platform
Computer vision startup alwaysAI has closed a $4 million Series A funding round, which it intends to use to broaden…
NEC provides demo real-time facial recognition system for 5G lab
NEC has announced that the DOCOMO 5G Open Lab OKINAWA has provisioned a demo facial recognition system leveraging Multi-access Edge…
Hong Kong International Airport expands facial recognition to boarding gates
Hong Kong’s Airport Authority has shared its plans to deploy facial recognition at boarding gates as part of a HK$2…
Large coalition of groups calls on tech giants to commit to no facial biometrics for government
A coalition of more than 85 advocacy groups has written Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to ask them not to provide…
Etron and Kneron partner for natural light 3D facial recognition at the edge
Etron Technology has partnered with Kneron and 3D imaging Etron subsidiary eYs3D to develop a 3D sensing solution for ‘Artificial…
AnyVision reveals Series A investment details and announces two new offices
AnyVision has revealed that Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading participant in the $43 million Series A funding round announced…
Biometric identity verification startup Authenteq raises $5M in Series A funding
Identity verification startup Authenteq has raised €4.4 million (US$5 million) in a Series A funding round led by Capital300 and…
Applied Recognition and Intellicheck partner on digital identity authentication
Applied Recognition and Intellicheck today announced a new partnership that will see the companies incorporate one another’s technology into each…
Camvi announces record biometric accuracy in UMass Faces in the Wild benchmark
Camvi Technologies has announced it achieved record-breaking accuracy of 99.87 percent in a recent University of Massachusetts’ Labeled Faces in…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection