Italy’s Police Biometrics Decree Takes Effect With Targeting and Oversight Rules
Italy’s new police biometrics framework took effect on September 30, establishing targeting, authorization and data-handling rules for facial recognition and…
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EU AI Act Transparency Rules for Deepfakes and Biometric Systems Take Effect August 2
New transparency requirements under the European Union’s AI Act will take effect on August 2, introducing disclosure and content-marking obligations for…
Suprema Earns ISO/IEC 42001 AI Governance Certification for Its Biometric Access Control
Biometric access control maker Suprema has obtained ISO/IEC 42001 certification, an international standard for managing artificial intelligence, covering the…
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…
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…
AI Update: History’s First Trillionaire
Welcome to the latest edition of the AI Update, where we continue to track the major developments in artificial intelligence and their implications for…
Baden-Wurttemberg Coalition Plans CCTV Combining Facial Recognition and Behaviour Analysis
The new Greens-CDU coalition agreement in the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg includes plans for public video surveillance that combines live facial…
EU Moves to Delay High-Risk AI Act Compliance to December 2027
The Council of the European Union and European Parliament negotiators reached a provisional agreement last week to push back compliance deadlines for high-risk…
European Parliament Votes to Delay EU AI Act High-Risk Deadlines to December 2027, Affecting Biometric Systems
The European Parliament voted 569 to 45 last week to extend compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act from August 2, 2026 to December…
DEKRA Becomes First Accredited EU AI Act Certification Body for Biometric Systems
DEKRA has become the first accredited certification body authorized to conduct conformity assessments on AI biometric systems under the EU Artificial…