U.S. Congress member welcomes AWS’s facial recognition moratorium, demands further explanations
U.S. Member of Congress Jimmy Gomez has written a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos applauding the decision to implement…
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Amnesty pushes for ban on facial recognition use for mass surveillance by police, government
Amnesty International is supporting the Algorithmic Justice League, the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation in their fight against biometric facial recognition technology use for…
DataWorks face biometrics police contract extension on hold as Detroit residents protest
Earlier this week, Detroit residents started a caravan of 40 vehicles to protest against Project Green Light, which sees biometric…
Invixium opens U.S. headquarters and hires staff for global expansion of touchless biometrics
Canadian biometric company Invixium is scaling its business across North America by opening a U.S. headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, and…
U.S. law enforcement face biometrics market carries on despite splashy announcements
U.S. police will still have choices among biometrics providers when contracting facial recognition services, despite several big names exiting the…
Microsoft joins the crowd in declining to sell facial biometrics to U.S. police until federal law in place
Microsoft has followed Amazon and IBM in declaring it does not sell facial recognition technology to police in the United States,…
Amazon pauses sale of facial biometrics to police while advocates push Microsoft and Ring to follow
Amazon has put a one-year moratorium on direct sales of its biometric facial recognition service to law enforcement to allow for…
Maryland law prohibits face-scanning during job interviews without consent
Beginning October 1, it will be illegal for a company to use biometric facial recognition during the process of interviewing…
Proposal would ban warrantless facial biometrics on U.S. police body cameras, use on protestors questioned
Among the changes proposed in The Justice in Policing Act recently unveiled by House Democrats in the U.S. is a ban…
IBIA says draft bill to block new U.S. federal use of facial recognition would do more harm than good
The U.S. Congressional Oversight Committee should consider options for developing principles for the use of facial recognition and other biometrics…
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