Secret ‘Keyhole’ program emerges as ICE surveillance of protestors widens
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) placed Operation Puppet Master, its undercover surveillance and investigation of…
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Dutch facial recognition developer 20Face secures funding to accelerate commercialization
Dutch facial recognition developer 20Face has secured a new investment from 819 Capital Partners as the company looks to accelerate…
UK ICO finds police facial recognition use mostly compliant with data regulations
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office says police are using facial recognition in ways that meet their regulatory compliance obligations, for…
Court records detail Clearview AI’s role in ICE protest surveillance
Newly disclosed court records show Homeland Security Investigations used Clearview AI facial recognition as one element of a broader undercover…
How domestic technology is normalizing biometric surveillance
What new device is this describing? – “The [Pro] has radar-based motion tracking, which gives you a trace of a…
Australia’s Coles, Woolworths test facial recognition amid retail crime debate
Two of Australia’s largest supermarket chains are testing facial recognition technology as they weigh new tools to combat rising retail…
Meta smart glasses patent reignites facial recognition debate
Meta’s latest smart glasses patent offers a glimpse of a future in which cameras do more than record what their…
Amazon Rekognition faces scrutiny in false arrest lawsuit
Amazon Web Services (AWS) was added as a defendant in a federal lawsuit brought by a St. Louis, Missouri man…
Researchers explore facial recognition with foundation models, synthetic data
In the era of convolutional neural networks, the most accurate face biometrics algorithms tend to be purpose-built. Researchers competing to…
FBI twin research highlights why multimodal biometrics still matter
The FBI is using biometric data provided by twins to understand how identification technologies perform in differentiating between people who…
