Surveillance states: life in the facial recognition spotlight in China, Iran and India
Police activity following November’s anti COVID-19 policy protests in China suggest they are using new surveillance techniques. Concerns are increasing…
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Germany positioned to dig heels in over EU’s AI Act, biometrics use
Germany is positioning itself more closely with the European Parliament rapporteurs’ aims for stricter protections in areas such as biometric…
Malta deep-sixes safe city facial recognition project after Huawei contract expires
Malta appears to have changed course on a plan to launch a CCTV network with facial recognition through a contract…
AI experts see legislation moving forward in 2023
Various legislators and policy experts have recently shared their views on the imminent future of artificial intelligence (AI) legislation. Speaking…
Irish PM pushes laws to allow police body cams, license plate recognition
Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said he intends to expedite the enactment of legislation to clarify the wearing of…
Biometrics among pandemic data authorities are using to ramp up surveillance, says AP
Technology created to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including facial recognition and other biometric scans, has been adopted by law…
Data collection during COVID-19 normalized surveillance, says civil liberties organization
The COVID-19 pandemic spread more than just viral infection, with trends in surveillance presenting new concerns about personal data risk…
China’s political biometric ID surveillance grows in scope and tech
A surveillance systems company unfamiliar outside its native China is coming into view as Beijing pushes biometrics recognition into more…
Serbian rights group warns of implications in biometric surveillance act
The nonprofit Share Foundation has published a new position paper warning against the biometric surveillance implications of a draft law…
US blacklists Tiandy Technologies as Intel washes its hands
Tiandy Technologies, one of the largest video surveillance suppliers in the world, joins its surveillance compatriots Dahua and Hikvision on…
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