Biometric facial recognition deployments and regulations both advance
Finnish Police and Customs have been granted permission to use automatic facial biometric technology, with the approval of a new…
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Smart Engines
Smart Engines is a software development company with a broad expertise in computer vision, document processing and OCR, mobile recognition…
Toronto police using facial recognition as Canadian government ponders rules
Toronto police used facial recognition technology to attempt to identify people in 2,591 searches since March of last year, according…
Facial recognition controversies draw increasing attention
Controversy continues to swirl around biometric facial recognition, with U.S. House Committee hearings, legal challenges, and new revelations about who…
Perspective is key to securing valuable claims in biometric patent applications
This is a guest post by Raj Gupta, Karthik Kumar and Justin Mullen, attorneys at Finnegan, an IP law firm….
AI Foundation and Technical University of Munch partner to fight deepfakes
The AI Foundation and the Technical University of Munich’s (TUM’s) Visual Computing Lab have partnered to provide resources for continued…
San Francisco passes ban on police and city use of public facial biometrics
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved a ban on public biometric facial recognition use by police and other city departments…
Northrop Grumman shareholders demand rights report over DHS biometric database contract
A group of shareholders are planning to challenge Northrop Grumman leadership over the human rights implications of its lucrative new…
Trial of rapid DNA biometrics to investigate false family claims by migrants at U.S.-Mexico border
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will conduct DNA tests in cases where border guards suspect people crossing the U.S.-Mexico…
Biometrics added to Washington data breach law as New Hampshire considers limiting use
Washington legislators have passed a law to extend the state’s data breach notification law to several new types of information,…
