Facewatch, Met police face lawsuits after facial recognition misidentification
Biometric security company Facewatch, which provides facial recognition software to shops across the UK, is facing a lawsuit after its…
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2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo will feature NEC biometric payment and access technology
The 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo in Japan will feature a comprehensive facial recognition system developed by NEC for cashless payments and visitor…
EU watchdog rules airport biometrics must be passenger-controlled to comply with GDPR
The use of facial recognition to streamline air passenger’s travel journeys only complies with Europe’s data protection regulations in certain…
NZ’s biometric code of practice could worsen privacy: Business group
New Zealand is working on creating a biometrics Code of Practice as the country introduces more facial recognition applications. A…
BSI offers code of practice for ethical facial recognition use
A code of practice for the ethical deployment and use of facial recognition has been published for sale by the…
Real-time remote biometrics banned in EU with final green light for AI Act
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act received a final green light allowing it to become the world’s first major regulation…
Police in US cities that ban facial recognition asking others to do it for them
A major report in the Washington Post has found that law enforcement officers in U.S. several cities where facial recognition…
Researchers navigate facial recognition algorithm training with synthetic data
A new paper authored by a team from the Biometrics Security and Privacy group at the Idiap Research Institute explores…
Bermuda delays facial recognition deployment for national CCTV project
Bermuda’s government will not be deploying facial recognition capabilities in its CCTV system, at least for now, due to unspecified…
What are NIST evaluation tests for facial recognition algorithms?
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology divided the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) into two separate sets of…
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