Cimcon raises $33M to expand smart city push as VSBLTY extends LATAM partnership
Smart city technology provider Cimcon has closed a $33 million financing round, including a $23 million Series C round and…
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Facial recognition giants unveil new technologies at World AI Conference
Facial biometrics unicorn SenseTime is opening a new Chinese headquarters in Shanghai, the company announced at the World Artificial Intelligence…
London and Atlanta join Chinese cities among those with most public surveillance cameras
The cities with the most surveillance cameras in the word per capita are all in China, except for London and…
U.S. Senators call for travel warning for countries with Chinese smart city systems
A pair of U.S. Senators have called on the State Department to issue a travel advisory to Americans traveling to…
Quito to launch facial recognition for public surveillance under smart city project
Ecuadorian capital Quito will launch public biometric facial recognition as part of the country’s first digital city program after an…
Video surveillance equipment market to grow by $1.7B this year
The global professional video surveillance market is growing, and a new biometric partnership and technologies demonstrated at the recent IFSEC…
Valid to provide biometric ID cards as part of award-winning smart city initiative in Brazil
São Caetano do Sul has received an InovaCidade award from Smart Business Brazil for a smart city project managed by…
Philippines plans biometric enrollment of 105 million people as Manila pilots facial recognition
The Philippines is planning to register 105 million people in its biometric National ID system, and is currently acquiring the…
VSBLTY to provide facial biometrics for Smart City partnership in Latin America
VSBLTY Groupe has partnered with “intelligent lighting” provider Energetika to integrate biometric facial recognition and other security technologies with Smart…
Ethics panel sets criteria for London police use of live facial recognition as Dubai city plan criticized
The London Policing Ethics Panel examining the use of biometric real-time facial recognition has concluded that if police can prove…
