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Chinese biometric surveillance camera vendors in West take cases to the media and courts
To date, the reaction in China to mounting government actions toward its biometric surveillance industry has been comparatively muted. Here…
| Jan 9, 2023 | Malta deep-sixes safe city facial recognition project after Huawei contract expiresMalta appears to have changed course on a plan to launch a CCTV network with facial recognition through a contract… |
| Dec 9, 2022 | Invisibility cloak hides wearer from biometric cameras and exposes security loopholesMove over, Harry Potter: students at Wuhan University in China have won an award for developing a virtual invisibility cloak,… |
| Oct 3, 2022 | Serbia lobbying Western support to carry on with smart city biometrics project amid criticismSerbian officials are reportedly negotiating financial and technical support for U.S. and Swedish smart city tech, drawing criticism from citizens… |
| Sep 13, 2022 | Pakistan safe city project stalls with nearly 1K facial recognition cameras not functioningSince it was rolled out in 2016, the Lahore safe city project in Punjab province has been facing major challenges,… |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Qatar equips 15,000 cameras with facial recognition for soccer World Cup 2022FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar will be held at 8 stadiums and watched by millions of fans, along with… |
| Jan 3, 2022 | Facial recognition vendor Huawei digs deeper into strategic SerbiaHuawei‘s methodical investment, and alleged bribery, in Serbia continues to pay dividends. The strategic and historically restive east European nation… |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Biometric mass surveillance pitched in alleged Huawei company materialsHuawei’s involvement in tracking Chinese citizens has come under renewed scrutiny regarding the use of biometric identification systems. The Washington… |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Huawei smart city projects meet facial recognition block, lawsuit from partnerThe implementation of a smart city project in Serbia which includes the installation of surveillance cameras from Huawei with facial… |
| Aug 6, 2021 | China is not slowing its global surveillance industry marchA new examination of China’s biometric surveillance industry worldwide describes almost unbridled growth — growth that United States tech firms… |
| Jun 9, 2021 | Acuant wins crypto selfie biometrics customer as financial service providers address market gapsAcuant headlines a group of selfie biometrics and regulatory compliance providers announcing customer wins, which also includes Visa, Basis ID,… |
| Jun 7, 2021 | Chinese facial recognition deployments in India, Europe prompt warningsChinese-made surveillance projects including biometrics have accelerated in India in recent years, which were developed in the aftermath of terror… |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Police facial recognition use in Belarus, Greece, Myanmar raises rights, data privacy concernsFacial recognition software developed by Belarusian software design company LLC Synesis and implemented by the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs,… |
| Mar 15, 2021 | In-display fingerprint biometrics rumored for Apple, implemented by Goodix as patent lawsuit filedA new report shared by Barclays analysts with MacRumors seems to confirm previous rumors hinting at under-display fingerprint biometrics on… |
| Mar 15, 2021 | New White House, same beef with China telecom and biometrics powerhousesThe Biden administration has reinforced a position held by its predecessor that products made by five Chinese telecom, surveillance and… |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Huawei, Megvii, SenseTime patents describing biometric ethnicity detection, tracking revealedHuawei and other China-based firms have attempted to protect technologies related to their ethnicity-tracking biometrics with patents, IPVM has discovered. The tech… |
| Jan 7, 2021 | Preciate plans biometric retail payments expansion after pandemic delayFrom the ambitions of a startup based in Israel to a partnership for smartphone-based biometric payments in Russia, retail payment… |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Facial recognition CCTV system goes live in Myanmar, prepared in IndiaA total of 335 cameras with face recognition capabilities went live last week in the Myanmar capital of Naypyitaw, Myanmar… |
| Dec 9, 2020 | Huawei accused of using ethnicity-based biometrics to develop alert for Chinese authoritiesIn a development that might finally get U.S. biometrics firms to walk the corporate-responsibility talk when it comes to how… |
| Dec 7, 2020 | Malaysian partners roll out 5G biometric workforce management systemsMalaysian telecom U Mobile and Hotayi Electronic (M) Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia- based electronics manufacturer, have co-created two 5G-enabled systems… |
