Oakland considers banning public facial recognition use as San Francisco police amendments accepted
Oakland may not be far behind San Francisco in banning facial biometrics use by city departments, GovTech reports. The Oakland…
Surveillance
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Shanghai deploys smart city system with biometric facial recognition from Alibaba
Shanghai has deployed Alibaba Group Holding’s City Brain public surveillance system with 1,100 biometric facial recognition cameras and drones to…
Facial biometric security systems deployed to Brazil stadiums hosting Copa America soccer games
All six stadiums hosting matches in the upcoming Copa America soccer tournament in Brazil will be equipped with biometric facial…
AnyVision partners with Synectics to offer facial recognition with intelligent security systems
Security surveillance company Synectics has reached a partnership agreement with AnyVision to integrate biometric facial recognition with its Synergy 3…
Megvii accused of providing facial biometrics for repressive Chinese surveillance system
Human Rights Watch has identified Megvii’s Face++ as a supplier of biometric facial recognition technology for a mobile app used…
Controversy grows over Huawei privacy protections and state connections
The Central Intelligence Agency has informed intelligence services for allied “Five Eyes” nations (Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand)…
Novel techniques that can ‘trick’ object detection systems sounds familiar alarm
Security engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) early this month announced they’d been able to develop “new adversarial techniques” that…
Serbia and Uruguay deploy Chinese biometric and surveillance technology amid growing controversy
Chinese surveillance and facial biometric technology continue to be implemented in other countries even as evidence emerges that they are…
ISS launches facial biometrics for diverse camera angles and lighting in video management system
Intelligent video management system (VMS) and native analytics provider Intelligent Security Systems (ISS) demonstrated the new SecurOS FaceX biometric facial…
Biometric surveillance raises ethics concerns for China-U.S. AI industry sharing
Microsoft Research Asia co-wrote three papers on artificial intelligence and facial analysis with researchers associated with the Chinese military’s National…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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