Scottish Biometrics Commissioner backs regulating LFR with primary legislation
The UK has been debating its lack of unified regulation for facial recognition use over the past several years. In…
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Germany considers allowing face biometric web searches by police, watchdog critical
An expert report commissioned by AlgorithmWatch, a European digital rights organization, has pointed out the technical and legal issues with…
UK citizens say the police should be using AI – but there are conditions…
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner As we come to terms with its potential reach, debates…
Aurora, Colorado police move closer to using facial recognition technology
After years of internal planning and public debate about biometric surveillance, the Aurora Police Department (APD) has asked city leaders…
Europe’s ‘Wild West’ of facial recognition testing spurs call for responsible AI oversight
A peer-reviewed study published in Data & Policy by legal scholar Karen Yeung of the University of Birmingham, and Wenlong…
NYPD turns public housing Internet program into surveillance network
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has quietly begun wiring cameras at scale in public housing into its real-time surveillance…
Guidance on police use of live facial recognition in the works: UK minister
The UK government is moving ahead with plans to greenlight the use of live facial recognition technology (FRT) by police…
New Orleans crime camera network limits police over video release policy
Project NOLA, the nonprofit at the center of New Orleans’ surveillance debates, has moved to curtail police access to its…
UK privacy concerns mount as police facial recognition scans surpass 50k a day
There is an increasing number of faces being scanned by a live facial recognition system in the UK despite persisting…
As London expands CCTV network, critics express concerns of overreach
London is making a significant upgrade of its CCTV infrastructure in one of its most surveilled boroughs, adding new cameras…
