The pressure campaign to get Chinese facial recognition firm Tiandy Technologies on a sanctions or export control list has not…
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.
UK government moves against Chinese-made security cameras in public sector
The UK Government Security Group has instructed government departments to stop deploying security cameras provided by Chinese companies subject to…
Facial recognition ruled out for 2024 Olympics and Paralympics by French Ministry of Sport
France’s Ministry of Sport confirmed that the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris will not make use of facial…
Facial recognition trials initiated to fight crime at NZ grocery stores
A grocery cooperative in New Zealand is testing facial recognition tools in several stores as a way to combat a…
Biometric data privacy complaint against Clearview proceeds after motions rejected
A California court has denied an anti-SLAPP motion and a separate motion by Clearview AI to dismiss a biometric data…
US State officials call for stronger biometric data security from federal regulator
A new bipartisan coalition of US officials is calling for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to adopt stronger surveillance and…
Veritone buys Vision Semantics, gets Deloitte nod for growth
Veritone says it has bought video recognition company Vision Semantics and is releasing Tracker, an object video recognition tool based…
Apple patent hints at identifying people like puzzle pieces
Apple has applied for an international patent describing home surveillance software that would try to recognize a person by portions…
US biometric surveillance database reaches 10,000 data points
A privacy advocate’s database counting the United States government bodies that surveil citizens’ biometric identifiers reportedly now has 9,850 data…
Contextual analytics helps achieve holistic understanding of video in real time — Oosto
Semantic segmentation can enable contextual analytics to gain a holistic understanding of video footage in real time, improving artificial intelligence…
