Coles and Woolworths Confirm Facial Recognition Tests After Bunnings Ruling
Coles and Woolworths confirmed early facial recognition tests after the Bunnings tribunal ruling, with no decision on rolling the technology into stores.
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Sainsbury’s Pauses Facial Recognition at London Store After Customer Ejection
Sainsbury’s has temporarily suspended live facial recognition at its East Dulwich store after staff wrongly challenged a customer as a suspected shoplifter and…
Egyptian MP Seeks Safeguards for Facial Verification in SIM Registration
Egyptian lawmaker Amira al-Adly has called for clearer legal and institutional safeguards around plans to use facial recognition when registering mobile phone…
Erie County Receives About 30 Responses Under New Biometric Privacy Law
Erie County’s Department of Consumer Protection had received about 30 business responses to disclosure requirements under its new biometric privacy law, with…
India’s Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Police Facial Recognition at Protests
India’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a petition challenging Delhi Police use of facial recognition and other surveillance tools to monitor people attending…
MIA Teknoloji Completes RFID-Based Biometric Identity Project
MIA Teknoloji has completed an R&D project for identity verification that stores biometric data on an RFID card and performs a one-to-one facial comparison…
DHS Privacy Assessment Details Secret Service HELIX Surveillance Platform
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has published a privacy assessment of the Secret Service’s HELIX platform, detailing how it combines surveillance…
NSW Bill Would Add Driver Licence Photos to National Facial Matching System
New South Wales has introduced legislation that would connect the state’s driver licence records to Australia’s national facial matching service, extending…
Researchers Find Passkey Validation Can Bypass Apple’s Private Relay
Security researchers at Mysk have demonstrated that a WebAuthn passkey validation request can expose a user’s real IP address even when Apple’s iCloud Private…
WhatsApp Tests Optional Age Confirmation in India
WhatsApp is testing privacy-focused ways for users in India to confirm their age, including a prompt that asks some people to enter a date of birth. The…