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Maine city bans local police and government use of biometric facial recognition pending referendum

Aug 4, 2020, 11:48 am EDT

Biometric facial recognition cannot be used by municipal agencies in Portland, Maine, after its City Council unanimously approved an ordinance…

Jul 13, 2020, 2:00 pm EDT

Tensions generated by COVID-19, China’s actions in Hong Kong and an extensive trade war have led to the U.S. government’s…

Jun 17, 2020, 1:13 pm EDT

The German government is banning passport photo morphing, which can be used to assign multiple identities to a single passport…

Mar 29, 2020, 2:28 pm EDT

Covid-19 continues to impact biometric systems across Africa. After initial reports in previous weeks of systems being suspended to reduce…

Jan 14, 2020, 2:03 pm EST

On January 15 the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform is holding its third hearing focused on biometric facial…

Dec 30, 2019, 9:08 am EST

Privacy and national security concerns have led the U.S. Navy to ban the use of social media app TikTok on…

Dec 16, 2019, 1:45 pm EST

Facial recognition technology has been banned form government surveillance use in Brookline, making it the second town in Massachusetts, alongside…

Nov 25, 2019, 1:50 pm EST

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a campaign to empower people in the U.S. working against the use of…

Nov 18, 2019, 5:00 pm EST

Portland’s data governance workgroup has published a draft of an ordinance which would prohibit local government agencies from using biometric…

Oct 16, 2019, 8:32 am EDT

The City Council of Berkeley, California has banned all use of biometric facial recognition technology by government agencies, Gizmodo reports,…