FBI Seeks Options for “Clearview AI” Type Facial Recognition Searches
By Jesse Smith The FBI has put out a request for information regarding (RFI) open-source facial recognition capabilities which it hopes to acquire in the…
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Fees for Failed Biometric Verification Enforced as Pakistan Makes Process Mandatory
By Abigail Opiah Easypaisa, a digital financial services platform in Pakistan, has begun charging users for failed biometric verification attempts. According to a report by…
Deepfake Financial Fraud to Surge Over the Next 12 Months, Deloitte Reveals
By Abigail Opiah According to a recent Deloitte poll, more than half of C-suite executives and other senior leaders anticipate a rise in both the…
Kuwait to Freeze Bank Accounts of Residents Who Resist Biometric Fingerprinting
By Rhoda Wilson, The Exposé Kuwait is mandating a biometric registration process for citizens and expatriates. Those who fail to register their fingerprints by the…
Whether Through Biden, Harris, or Trump — Digital IDs Are Coming to America
By Derrick Broze The Biden Administration is considering an Executive Order for digital IDs, picking up where Donald Trump’s left off during his time in…
Remote Biometric Surveillance and Policing – A New Frame of Reference?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner In surveillance perspective is everything. Your viewpoint affects what you will see and therefore what…
The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments,…
Growing the Surveillance State: Drones, Facial Recognition, AI Enlisted to Fight Crime but at What Cost?
By Jesse Smith Big Brother is at it again. With rising crime as the backdrop, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is growing the surveillance…
The Future of CCTV and Policing
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Last week’s webinar by Public Policy Exchange considered the future of CCTV and related policy…
Draft bill allowing German police to search web with facial recognition panned
By Joel R. McConvey Germany is among the first European nations to push at the seams of the AI Act, with a row brewing over…
Facial recognition and AI monitoring deployed in India’s largest railway network
By Joel R. McConvey India’s rail networks are adding AI and facial recognition systems to their stations, part of a growing biometrics and surveillance market…
DHS to Hold Industry Day for Biometric Scanner Contract
By Chris Burt A hybrid industry day will be held by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on July 29 to share information on a…
Photos of Australian children found in AI training dataset, create deepfake risk
By Masha Borak Personal photos of Australian children are being used to train AI through a dataset that has been built by scraping images from…
US Police Launch Drone Programs, but No Facial Recognition Technology on Unmanned Aircraft Systems – Yet
By Joel R. McConvey Police across the U.S. are putting eyes in the sky, as the adoption of drones for law enforcement emerges as a…