Paravision has introduced a Software Development Kit (SDK) with Person Detection and Advanced Attribute Analytics capabilities to compliment or run…
Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner and it most usually refers to observation of individuals or groups by government organizations. Find surveillance solutions here.
Public facial recognition so far penned in by trust issues in the UK and Ireland
Questions about facial recognition in public spaces are getting more pointed and harder to dismiss by governments. Downstream from a…
Spanish port pilots 5G-enabled facial recognition surveillance
Spain’s Port of Vigo is again the site of tracking and monitoring technology. This time, a group of vendors working…
Advocates worried about global face biometrics systems find little transparency
Transparency continues to be a capability that world governments cannot demonstrate when it comes to biometric systems aimed at their…
UN rights report calls for moratorium on remote biometrics in public
A report published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has suggested that artificial…
UK panel sketches the reach of ethnicity recognition systems across China
The scale of systems behind China’s alleged persecution of minorities — chiefly Uyghurs — continue to beggar the imagination. The…
Surveillance skeptic nominated to U.S. Federal Trade Commission
The White House wants to draw a harder line on what is appropriate use of biometric surveillance. For his nomination…
Biometrics in the big house: Surveillance and new revenue
A pair of recent patents and a patent application paint a grim(mer) future for prison inmates and guards. The innovations…
NtechLab contracted by Indian Railways to deploy facial recognition at 30 stations
India’s newest railway facial recognition surveillance project is underway, with a contract to deploy the technology to 30 stations, though…
Fed surveillance oversight board stuck in neutral, Biden busy elsewhere
President Joe Biden has yet to fill three vacancies on a five-person board created after 9/11 to monitor how the…
