New York school districts plan facial recognition security despite ban
A moratorium on the use of facial recognition in New York State schools has not prevented a pair of districts from receiving…
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Adelaide City Council votes against purchasing facial recognition software for city security cameras
Police have refused to speculate on whether they would invest in facial recognition software after Adelaide City Council voted…
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Scotland attempts to regulate police use of biometric data
Scotland is trying to regulate the police use of biometric technologies, including facial recognition. Brian Plastow, the…
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Face recognition cams at MG Road metro station, others for better security: GMDA
The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) installed eight facial recognition cameras at the entry and exit of the MG…
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India tourism and travel panel suggests biometric screening at airports
Indias Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture has proposed the inclusion of non-intrusive biometric…
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Number of criminal cases detected with help of CCTV cameras in 2021 increased by 400 percent from last year
Installation of CCTV cameras starts yielding fruits on Western Railway. In 2021, the number of criminal cases detected with the…
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Surveillance Camera Commissioner warns against use of facial recognition for witness identification following Police guidance
The Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner for England and Wales, Professor Fraser Sampson, has warned police forces…
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Brunei gets facial recognition system from NEC to improve security
Authorities in Brunei have received facial recognition technology from NEC as part of efforts by the Department of Internal…
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Unisys lands A/NZ airport security gates contract with Vision-Box
Systems integrator Unisys has won a contract to deploy automated border security technology across 11 Australian and New Zealand…
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7 airports complete preliminary testing of Digi Yatra Biometric boarding system
Four airports of the Airports Authority of India (AAI)-- Varanasi, Pune, Kolkata and Vijayawada and three joint venture airports…
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Telangana police bags first place in capacity building category
Telangana state police was conferred with an award for the first place under excellent capacity building of police agencies…
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Biometric Security significantly reduces ID fraud, suggests Onfido report
Selfie-based biometric authentication is a highly effective safeguard against ID fraud, according to findings in Onfidos 2022…
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