Australian city opens $1.3m surveillance center with facial recognition technology
Logan City in South East Queensland, Australia recently opened a $1.3 million CCTV surveillance centre that uses facial recognition technology…
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St. Louis-based high school installs facial recognition system
St. Louis-based St. Mary’s High School recently became one of the first schools in the nation to install a new…
Meetup event discusses privacy, identity and payments in wearable technology
Meetup group We Are Wearables recently held an event called Wearable Tech – Privacy, Identity and Payments at the MaRs…
AVG develops glasses that obscure face to facial recognition software
Security solutions firm AVG demonstrated this week at Mobile World Congress a prototype pair of glasses that makes it difficult…
San Francisco museum workers protest employee biometric authorization
Workers at San Francisco’s de Young and Legion of Honor museums are in an uproar about the new mandatory biometric…
Surrey Police Force to combat criminal behavior with biometrics
The Surrey Police Force in the UK announced it has deployed fingerprint scanners to help protect the Epsom and Ewell…
NSTIC begins latest round of pilot project funding for identity solutions
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) National Program Office announced it has initiated its fourth round of…
New privacy regulations in Abu Dhabi might protect biometric data
High-finance is driving new employee privacy regulations in Abu Dhabi’s new economic “free zone”, which purportedly would protect sensitive data,…
White paper explores how privacy and data protection legislation affects biometric authentication
Market research firm Goode Intelligence has published its latest white paper entitled “The Impact of Privacy and Data Protection Legislation…
Colorado bill would prevent drones from collecting biometrics without warrant
A proposed Colorado bill would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before using a drone, as well as ban…
