UK pitches less oversight for Surveillance, who-knows-what for Biometrics Commissioner role
Tucked away on page 141 of 146, questions number 409 and 410 of the UK government’s data reform consultation document…
Surveillance
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European Parliament wants to keep option for biometrics surveillance ban
A German member of the European Parliament is reporting that that body has acted to keep the recommendation of a…
Proposed facial recognition ban in EU doesn’t go far enough — privacy advocates
Opposition in the European Union to facial recognition surveillance is not appeased by a proposed AI law promoted as being…
Paravision extends CV tools with person detection and advanced analytics
Paravision has introduced a Software Development Kit (SDK) with Person Detection and Advanced Attribute Analytics capabilities to compliment or run…
Public facial recognition so far penned in by trust issues in the UK and Ireland
Questions about facial recognition in public spaces are getting more pointed and harder to dismiss by governments. Downstream from a…
Spanish port pilots 5G-enabled facial recognition surveillance
Spain’s Port of Vigo is again the site of tracking and monitoring technology. This time, a group of vendors working…
Advocates worried about global face biometrics systems find little transparency
Transparency continues to be a capability that world governments cannot demonstrate when it comes to biometric systems aimed at their…
UN rights report calls for moratorium on remote biometrics in public
A report published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has suggested that artificial…
UK panel sketches the reach of ethnicity recognition systems across China
The scale of systems behind China’s alleged persecution of minorities — chiefly Uyghurs — continue to beggar the imagination. The…
Surveillance skeptic nominated to U.S. Federal Trade Commission
The White House wants to draw a harder line on what is appropriate use of biometric surveillance. For his nomination…
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