Civil-Liberties Groups Warn Ireland’s Garda AI Bill Lacks Safeguards on Biometric Powers
Civil-liberties campaigners and a Trinity College Dublin law academic are warning that Ireland is poised to grant police expanded artificial-intelligence…
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FBI Issues Third Market-Research RFI for Biometric-Matching Algorithms
The FBI is pressing ahead with market research into biometric-matching algorithms, issuing a third request for information through its Criminal Justice…
Western Australia Police to Trial Live Facial Recognition in an Australian First
Western Australia Police will trial real-time facial recognition cameras that scan the faces of people in crowds and check them against a watchlist, becoming…
Pakistan Rolls Out At-Home Facial Recognition for Pensioner Proof-of-Life Checks
Pakistan’s pensioners can soon confirm they are alive and eligible for payments using facial recognition from home, sparing them trips to the bank. Federal…
Biometric-Contractor Staff Among Those Arrested in Alleged Indian Exam Impersonation Racket
Indian police have arrested employees of the biometric-verification contractor responsible for authenticating candidates at a NEET medical entrance…
Hancom Auth Passes Korean Financial-Sector Biometric Evaluation
Hancom WITH says its facial-authentication platform, Hancom Auth, has passed the performance evaluation run by the Korea Financial Telecommunications and…
Union Biometrics Brings Face and Fingerprint Access Control to AI Data Centers
Union Biometrics is supplying facial recognition and fingerprint access-control technology for AI data center projects in North America and Europe, taking a…
Two Finnish Health Regions Launch Joint €4 Million Identity Management Tender
Two Finnish wellbeing-services regions are jointly seeking an identity and access management platform under a tender valued at four million euros, with the…
AI Update: Jassy Gets Sassy
Welcome to the latest edition of the AI Update, where we continue to track the major developments in artificial intelligence and their implications for…
Herta Completes Spain’s EU-First AI Sandbox with BioSurveillance Facial Recognition System
Herta, a Barcelona-based facial recognition and video analytics company, has successfully completed Spain’s artificial intelligence regulatory sandbox, the…