Continued focus on privacy critical to foster growing public support for facial recognition: FaceFirst CEO
With the rapid increase in deployments of facial recognition technology across the U.S., social dialogue about its implications for public…
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Scottish Independent Advisory Group recommends oversight measures for police biometrics system
A Scottish Independent Advisory Group on Biometric Data has made a series of recommendations regarding the use of biometrics by…
EU GDPR biometric compliance systems
This is a guest post by Paul Sheldon Foote and Sumantra Chakravarty, Professors of Accounting at California State University, Fullerton….
Privacy advocates issue warnings as facial recognition planned for U.S. schools
A pair of U.S. school boards are implementing facial recognition systems in schools to improve their security, Gizmodo reports, and…
Iris recognition integration with Chinese national ID scheme proposed
Lawmakers in China have suggested that the country’s national identity system should be expanded to include iris recognition at the…
London Policing Ethics Panel to review use of facial recognition
The use of facial recognition by police in the UK is facing a review from the London Policing Ethics Panel,…
Queensland parliamentary committee approves biometrics sharing laws
A Queensland parliamentary committee has approved new laws to give police access to the new national facial biometrics system, after…
Facebook expands notifications and use of facial recognition
Facebook is posting notifications informing users about its facial recognition features in their “News Feeds,” explaining some of the ways…
CULedger and Evernym launch distributed ledger digital identity system
U.S. credit union consortium CULedger and blockchain developer Evernym have announced a new digital identity system based on distributed ledger…
Face redaction startup Suspect Technologies plans to enter facial recognition market
AI computer vision startup Suspect Technologies is planning a funding round to expand from facial redaction products to facial recognition…
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