The high number of concerns and controversies around government use of facial recognition technology in surveillance and lack of proper…
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.
Morocco places moratorium on facial recognition, California limits police use
Morocco has placed the regulation of biometric facial recognition in the country in the hands of the National Commission for…
Cimcon raises $33M to expand smart city push as VSBLTY extends LATAM partnership
Smart city technology provider Cimcon has closed a $33 million financing round, including a $23 million Series C round and…
Biometric integrations with new networking and imaging tech on display at GSX 2019
Biometrics and other security professionals from around the world have gathered at Chicago’s McCormick Place for the Global Security Exchange…
BIPA suit brought against Home Depot for loss prevention biometrics
Home Depot is the latest company to be hit by a potential class action suit for alleged unlawful biometrics use…
China ramps up nationwide biometric data collection
China has started collecting citizen’s DNA to allegedly build a male DNA database, a biometric collection scheme that human rights…
New anonymization solution from D-ID blocks facial biometrics with fake faces
D-ID has introduced a new Smart Anonymization offering to remove facial features used for biometrics as well as other personally…
New FaceFirst biometric platform version boosts performance and eases deployment
FaceFirst has launched a new version of its biometric enterprise computer vision platform with improved face detection performance in challenging…
London and Atlanta join Chinese cities among those with most public surveillance cameras
The cities with the most surveillance cameras in the word per capita are all in China, except for London and…
Uganda invests $126M in CCTV with facial biometrics from Huawei
Uganda has agreed to purchase a CCTV system with biometric facial recognition from Huawei for $126 million to reduce violent…
