Verkada, a major provider of surveillance cameras throughout the United States, suffered a data breach that exposed the contents of over 150,000 of its live camera feeds.
EU is trialling facial recognition technology through ADDS, Automatic Deception Detection System, which will use AI to assess visitors’ facial expressions and behavior before granting entry permit.
Ruling by Moscow courts that video surveillance with facial recognition does not violate citizen privacy would appear to be the definitive statement that Moscow will now be the largest city outside of China to track people in nearly every inch of public space.
A recent breach of biometrics giant Suprema has exposed 28 million records of facial recognition and fingerprint data including unencrypted username-password combinations stored in plain text.
Use of facial recognition technology is growing in both public and private sectors amid increasing concerns over data privacy and mass surveillance.
Authorities may need to consider stricter approach to the use of facial recognition technologies as first GDPR fine was issued to a Swedish school.
California legislature decided to rein in the “surveillance state” by passing a three-year state-wide moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology in body cams used by law enforcement agencies.
Facial recognition provider Clearview AI is facing a joint privacy investigation by the U.K. and Australia that centers on the scraping of social media platforms for available images.
Within a year, India could have the world’s largest facial recognition system in place. But there is a very real risk that such a system could transform India into the world’s largest surveillance state.
Privacy researchers recently discovered FBI and ICE using facial recognition technology to scan against DMV databases in order to locate criminals and undocumented immigrants.
