
OAIC urged to take action on Australian retailers over facial recognition
CHOICE tells OAIC that three of Australia’s biggest retail chains use “unreasonably intrusive” facial recognition tech on customers. Read more…
CHOICE tells OAIC that three of Australia’s biggest retail chains use “unreasonably intrusive” facial recognition tech on customers. Read more…
Clearview AI will restrict access to its image database to resolve a lawsuit accusing it of collecting people’s photos without permission. Read more…
Clearview AI is aiming to win its first big government contracts even as it fights challenges in the courts and Congress: CEO Read more…
Facial recognition is being deployed by more and more countries trying to get control of the Omicron variant. Privacy concerns abound. Read more…
South Korea to use artificial intelligence, facial recognition and thousands of CCTV cameras to track people infected with the coronavirus. Read more…
Security officials in Henan commissions a surveillance system to track journalists, international students and other “suspicious people”. Read more…
Meta is pausing facial recognition software over ‘societal concerns’. This poses questions about other tech potentially in the same basket. Read more…
Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system – at least until regulators can come up with a clear set of rules governing its use. Read more…
Facial recognition systems are being used in conjunction with other, older, technologies to keep tabs on citizens and their whereabouts. Read more…
Australia’s two most populous states are trialling facial recognition software that lets police check people are home during COVID quarantine Read more…
A group of investors is calling on companies involved in the development and use of facial recognition technology to do so in an ethical way. Read more…
Facial recognition should be banned in Europe because of its “deep and non-democratic intrusion” into people’s private lives – EU watchdog. Read more…
Deployments of facial recognition show how the surveillance software has gained adoption even as regulatory and ethical debates about it rage Read more…
People attending an anti-Kremlin rally last month were detained by Russian police using facial recognition technology in the Moscow metro. Read more…
Japan’s NEC Corp has launched a facial recognition system that identifies people even when they are wearing masks. Read more…
Four million Singaporeans can now access digital government services online using facial verification implemented by GovTech. Read more…
Chinese universities revert to facial recognition and bathtime bookings for the fall semester after months of pandemic controls. Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Visitors to Universal Studios in Singapore will now have to pass through facial recognition scanners to enter the park, in the city-state’s latest foray with a technology that has stoked privacy concerns. Read more…
American drugstore chain Rite Aid has been using facial recognition technology for 8 years, most recently from a company with links to China. Read more…
A Chinese company says it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask. Read more…
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