‘Hope’ in the UK that Chinese surveillance cameras will be ripped out of public networks
The China biometric surveillance story gets grimmer with every investigation, report and news story. Angst is growing among some in…
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China’s biometric cameras still a source of concern and irritation in US, UK
The focus on alleged human rights abuses in China perpetrated using facial recognition systems has not softened for some. IPVM,…
A UK regulator and former Chinese prisoner speak out on autocratic biometric surveillance
Days after the United Kingdom’s biometrics surveillance regulator asked a Chinese camera maker to publicly clarify its participation in the…
Sampson talks ethics with Facewatch as biometric privacy concerns resurface
UK grocer Southern Co-op has expanded its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to 35 of its stores, The Daily…
It sounds like the US has Hikvision’s attention
In a surprising move, a Chinese maker of video and biometric surveillance systems and under sanction by the U.S. government…
China intensifies biometrics, video surveillance research as social credit market builds
China leads all other nations in publishing research on the visual surveillance of populations, one of the most controversial segments…
Chinese province to use facial recognition to track foreign journalists and others
Chinese firm Neusoft, backed by Huawei’s cloud services, has won a tender from the government of China’s central Henan province…
Facial recognition and video analytics in CCTV meet with mixed feedback
Israel-based enterprise software solutions provider Nice has recently partnered with the UK’s National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) to assist businesses…
UK panel sketches the reach of ethnicity recognition systems across China
The scale of systems behind China’s alleged persecution of minorities — chiefly Uyghurs — continue to beggar the imagination. The…
Ethnicity recognition found among Russian face biometrics providers’ features
A quartet of Russian biometrics providers have been found to have built ethnicity-recognition tools into facial recognition systems, like their…
