Amnesty International urges Scotland to ban live facial recognition for law enforcement
Amnesty International has called on the Scottish government to prohibit the use of live facial Recognition (LFR), describing the biometric…
Amnesty International
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Human rights groups want tighter US export controls for facial recognition
Human rights organizations are expressing support for the U.S. government’s plans to introduce new export controls on facial recognition systems…
US, UK digital systems for immigration biometrics draw criticism
Amnesty International says that the biometric asylum app CBP One, created by the United States Customs and Border Protection, fails…
Rights groups criticize EU AI Act for inadequate protections against potential abuse
The EU’s AI Act is done, and no one is happy. Having been adopted by the European Parliament in March…
Kenya’s digital ID ecosystem must respect fundamental human rights: policy advisory
The Kenya office of global rights advocacy organization, Amnesty International, has issued an advisory policy paper outlining what the country…
Amnesty report highlights dangers of biometrics use in border control
Asylum and migration management systems across the world are seeing rapid adoption of digital technologies, including the collection of biometrics…
Amnesty wants end to surveillance infrastructure in Palestine
Amnesty International is decrying the Israeli government’s use of experimental facial recognition known as Red Wolf, which can be linked…
NYPD to produce biometric monitoring of protesters or reply individually why it can’t
The state Supreme Court has ordered the New York Police Department to hand over 2,700 documents from 2020 related the…
Privacy concerns linger around new EU data sharing Protocol
The Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence, which can include…
Rebuffed by NYPD, Amnesty sues to learn biometric surveillance details
Demonstrating how not to create trust in AI, the New York Police Department have refused to make public face biometrics…
