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…
AI powered facial recognition is fast becoming the new front line in the privacy wars. Read more…
Vatican joins forces with Microsoft and IBM to promote ethical development of AI and call for regulation of intrusive technologies such as facial recognition. Read more…
Recently Facebook settled a facial recognition lawsuit for $550 million with the state of Illinois because it contravened the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Read more…
Most major railway stations in India will use facial recognition to fight crime by the end of 2020 raising issues on people’s privacy. Read more…
Police in Delhi, India used facial recognition software to screen crowds at a recent political rally raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance. Read more…
Many facial recognition systems misidentify people of colour more often than white people amounting to racial bias, according to a US government study. Read more…
Singapore hotels can use facial recognition technology to authenticate their guests’ identities, but will their customers be happy with that? Read more…
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