ICE’s use of CBP biometric surveillance app built on paper thin oversight
The document justifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Mobile Fortify app is just…
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London Police facial recognition expansion casts wide net
London’s Metropolitan Police have a new community crime-fighting strategy that expands the use of facial recognition and other technologies to…
CBP Mobile Identify app pulled from Google Play Store amid intensifying scrutiny
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Mobile Identify application was quietly removed from the Google Play Store after journalists and…
Project NOLA reopens network to New Orleans Police, LFR alerts still suspended
New Orleans-based Project NOLA’s sprawling network of community installed surveillance cameras is once again streaming directly into the hands of…
British Transport Police to trial live facial recognition on railway stations
Live facial recognition (LFR) is coming to the UK’s train stations. The British Transport Police (BTP) has announced a six-month…
Human error blamed for false accusation at retailer using facial recognition
False accusations of shoplifting against a man in Cardiff, Wales are the result of human error, rather than a false…
FBI issues RFI on drones with real-time facial recognition, license plate readers
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has issued a new Request for Information (RFI) seeking AI tools that are capable…
Live facial recognition vans spread across seven additional UK cities
UK police authorities are expanding their live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance program, which uses cameras on top of vans to…
UK Home Office live facial recognition adoption begins with POC at ports
The UK government is joining its police in embracing facial recognition with the Home Office and Immigration Enforcement planning a…
Suggestion of live facial recognition for UK trains meets practical limitations
A horrific stabbing incident on a passenger train in the UK has led a prominent opposition politician and former policing…
