Tag: Facial Recognition

India is creating a national facial recognition system

India is working to build the biggest facial recognition system in the world. The government envisions a future where the police officials from the...

Berkeley becomes fourth U.S. city to ban Police use of facial...

Reflecting the continued national debate about the use of surveillance technology by police, the city council in Berkeley, California voted to ban facial recognition...

California becomes third US state to ban facial recognition software in...

California will become the third state in the U.S. to ban facial recognition technology in police body cameras after Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat,...

City of Perth rolls out new facial recognition CCTV cameras

The activation of new facial recognition camera systems in Perth and Brisbane has raised concerns about how the technology is being quietly introduced by...

Amazon may stop selling Facial Recognition Technology to Governments

This time last year, Amazon drew the ire of the ACLU and concerned citizens across the country when it became apparent it was selling...

Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act of 2019 Introduced

U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Brian Schatz, members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, introduced the Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act...

The Secret Service is testing Facial Recognition outside the White House

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently unveiled a facial recognition pilot program that uses security cameras to capture images of people outside the...

8 players enter race to install facial recognition-enabled CCTV systems at...

Eight major players have entered the race to install CCTV cameras -- that will also have facial recognition capabilities -- at more than 6,000...

TSA bringing facial recognition to airport security lanes

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has unveiled a multi-step plan to make increased use of facial recognition and other biometric-identification tools to improve accuracy...

Facial recognition system set to be used in Olympic security

A facial recognition system will be used across an Olympics for the first time as Tokyo organizers work to keep security tight and efficient...