FTC issues warning letters on transfers of sensitive US personal data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned 13 data brokers that their business practices may violate a federal law prohibiting…
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UK police organized crime unit seeks new facial recognition software
The UK’s main law enforcement agency against organized crime is looking into new facial recognition solutions, as the country doubles…
GSI Technology rolls out servers for facial recognition and re-identification
GSI Technology has released Leda-E and Leda-S for the processing of huge datasets and high-performance computation in areas like facial…
Soft biometrics experts wanted on teams tabling proposals for IARPA video re-ID system
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the government’s intelligence research arm, is in the early stages of developing…
Veritone buys Vision Semantics, gets Deloitte nod for growth
Veritone says it has bought video recognition company Vision Semantics and is releasing Tracker, an object video recognition tool based…
Researchers pitch combined biometrics to enable identification from blurred, dark images
As demand for remote identification via surveillance increases, a survey of academic work on biometrics including facial recognition and gait…
China intensifies biometrics, video surveillance research as social credit market builds
China leads all other nations in publishing research on the visual surveillance of populations, one of the most controversial segments…
Patients not anti-face biometrics, but won’t tolerate privacy missteps — research
A U.S. study probing the acceptability of using face biometrics for medical research shows that participants are worried about identification…
Research ethics in machine vision need some attention
The AI community talks big about ethics, but skeptics are interested in its walk. For machine vision researchers, at least,…
From big data to video biometrics, NtechLab CEO on safe cities, business analytics and regulation
NtechLab has built its reputation for facial recognition technology over the past several years with impressive results in testing and…
