Ontario privacy commissioner addresses police facial recognition mugshot programs
A release from Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) says it has published new guidelines for the lawful use of…
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Paravision joins podium for mugshot and webcam biometric accuracy in NIST facial recognition testing
Paravision has cracked the top three in biometric accuracy rankings in multiple categories in the latest edition of the National…
Milestone integrates Captis database of 30M mugshots for facial recognition video investigations
A new plugin application for instantly identifying individuals in video streams within second with a single click has been launched…
Clearview AI sought every US mugshot from past 15 years, Vermont sues over web-scraping
Clearview AI has sought every mugshot from across America to augment the billions of images it scraped from social media…
UK Biometrics and Forensics Ethics group finally reports concerns with government plans
The UK government has released the first annual report from the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group (BFEG) two years later…
NYPD accused of violating best practices and law with DNA and facial biometrics databases
The NYPD is building a biometric DNA database without informing people of their inclusion, and is allegedly adding mugshots which…
ACLU calls out Amazon biometrics in fight to ban facial recognition
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU) has used Amazon Rekognition facial recognition to match one in five…
Amazon facial recognition falsely matched 28 in Congress with mugshots in ACLU experiment
U.S. Congress includes 28 individuals matched to arrest photos by Amazon’s facial recognition technology, according to a blog post by…
UK Home Office balks at complying with face image deletion order due to expense
Despite a six-year old High Court ruling that mass retention of facial images is unlawful, a committee of UK MPs…
FBI has access to 412 million images for facial recognition
According to a new report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has…
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