UK Biometrics Commissioner wades into Foreign Affairs’ ban of Hikvision products
The UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has responded to a letter published by Chinese camera manufacturer…
Surveillance
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China is not slowing its global surveillance industry march
A new examination of China’s biometric surveillance industry worldwide describes almost unbridled growth — growth that United States tech firms…
Facial recognition surveillance worldwide: Mexico steps forward, Israel and EU step back and the US to the side
One of the leads for amending the European Parliament’s Artificial Intelligence Act intends to tighten biometric surveillance in the bloc…
Amazon sees profit in your palmprint. Opponents see harmful surveillance capitalism
Days after privacy advocates asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to ban surveillance capitalism, particularly as practiced by Amazon, comes…
Telefonica Tech signs deal with C2RO for ‘biometric-free’ customer tracking
Spain’s Telefonica Tech gains technology described as real-time, biometric-free customer footfall and socio-demographic analysis with the announcement of an agreement…
Maxima Telecom win $13.5M contract to deploy face biometric cameras to Moscow roads
Two thousand cameras with object detection and face biometrics are coming to the roads and highways of Russia’s capital, through…
Global biometric surveillance developments draw regional concerns
Biometric surveillance is facing resistance globally. It is doubtless less successful than opponents would like but the resistance cannot be…
Biometric healthcare security advances with Securiteam contract, Anviz Global integration
Securiteam has announced a new biometric security partnership with an unnamed cancer hospital in the U.S. Following the beginning of the…
The gamification of biometric surveillance (Not as fun as it sounds)
If everything can be gamified, then life battling blanket facial recognition should be a hoot, though on second thought, “a…
Three new ideas for erasing objects in video that hide critical details
Researchers have published three computer vision papers, one involving a technique known as deraining, designed to make it harder for…
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