China intensifies biometrics, video surveillance research as social credit market builds
China leads all other nations in publishing research on the visual surveillance of populations, one of the most controversial segments…
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Health-scanning camera with facial recognition launched by Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has unveiled HealthCam, a facial recognition health monitoring system that can track an individual’s heart beat rate,…
Genetec security platform has face biometrics privacy certification renewed
Genetec’s KiwiVision Privacy Protector platform has been recertified with the European Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe) for the sixth consecutive two-year term, giving…
Japan takes a good, very long look at its options in China biometrics puzzle
Japan could join the United States and the European Union in restricting biometric surveillance technology to some autocratic governments, not…
Facial recognition vendor Huawei digs deeper into strategic Serbia
Huawei‘s methodical investment, and alleged bribery, in Serbia continues to pay dividends. The strategic and historically restive east European nation…
Hailo chips integrated by Axiomtek for smart city edge AI infrastructure
Taiwan-based Axiomtek announced it will be offering hardware with AI processor chips from Hailo, the latest in a series of…
Are biometrics providers using smart cities to advance digital ID?
Biometrics providers and other large private entities are supplying technologies to smart city projects to create and use digital IDs,…
CyberLink upgrades management tools for biometric surveillance and access control platform
CyberLink has updated its biometric surveillance and access control software with a new Video Monitoring and Recording (VMR) module and a…
Biometric mass surveillance pitched in alleged Huawei company materials
Huawei’s involvement in tracking Chinese citizens has come under renewed scrutiny regarding the use of biometric identification systems. The Washington…
South Korea launching facial recognition CCTV pilot to trace COVID cases
South Korea is planning to add facial recognition to the technology arsenal of its contact-tracing initiative, with the hope of…
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