Scottish Police admit to using facial recognition software, maintaining image database
Police Scotland has admitted to using face recognition technology to identify individuals captured on CCTV cameras and from other sources,…
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Australian law enforcement agencies want shared facial recognition database
Australian law enforcement agencies have come together to support a new plan to build a national facial recognition database that…
Privacy and civil rights groups outline regulations for police body cameras
A coalition of over 30 privacy and civil rights organizations, including the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union, have…
ImageWare selects ValidSoft’s voice biometrics solution
ValidSoft announced in an earnings call that ImageWare Systems has selected ValidSoft’s voice biometrics solution, which marks its third commercial…
TeraDact to protect data collected by PlateSmart’s LPR solution
License plate recognition (LPR) analytic solutions firm PlateSmart announced that they will integrate TeraDact’s patented Information Identification and Presentation (IIaP)…
Australian government to invest more in biometric border controls and national biometric database
The Australian government has allocated a total of AU$450 million to increase national security to provide different agencies with more…
Banking on biometrics
This is a guest post by Steve Cook, Director of Business Development at Facebanx. The world of banking is changing…
Public drones equipped with facial recognition software raise privacy concerns
In a partnership with CNN, drone manufacturer PrecisionHawk and BNSF Railroad, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it will test-fly…
Morpho joins Natural Security Alliance
Morpho (Safran) announced it has joined Natural Security Alliance, helping the organization to explore new biometric methods and strengthen mobile…
Consumers “creeped out” by targeted ads that use facial recognition: study
E-commerce recommendations firm RichRelevance released a new study called “Creepy or Cool”, which highlights consumer attitudes towards digital enhancements to…
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