Feds Accuse NJ Company of Repackaging Banned Facial Recognition Cameras
In New Jersey, state and local agencies have been caught in a significant scandal involving the purchase of surveillance equipment from Packetalk, a local…
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US Mulls More Severe Sanctions Against Chinese Biometric Surveillance Company
US authorities are considering adding China-based biometric surveillance specialist Hikvision to a more severe blacklist, according to a Financial Times…
U.K. Joins Chinese Facial Recognition Development Program
The Home Office of the United Kingdom has announced that the U.K. is joining China’s FaceR2VM project, which aims to develop facial recognition technology to…
Beijing Railway Adds Facial Recognition to Help with Spring Festival Travel
Facial recognition software has been installed in 30 self-service ticket machines by Beijing Railway in anticipation of the increase in travellers for the…
NIST Study Confirms Racial Bias of Many Facial Recognition Algorithms
A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released last Thursday shows that many of the facial recognition algorithms used today…
SenseTime Anticipates $750 Million in Revenue Despite U.S. Blacklisting
Chinese Artificial Intelligence startup SenseTime has reported that it expects revenue for the 2019 fiscal year to come in at $750 million, despite being one…
Moscow Court Ruling May Open Door to Biometric Surveillance
The Savelovsky court of Moscow has ruled against the notion that the use of facial recognition cameras is in violation of the Russian Constitution with regards…
China Begins Testing Emotion Recognition Technology in Xinjiang Region
China has begun testing surveillance technology in its northwestern Xinjiang region that aims to predict an individuals’ behavior by reading their emotional…
Human Rights Watch Clears Megvii in Investigation of Biometric Surveillance App
Megvii has been exonerated in an investigation into human rights violations in China. The New York-based Human Rights Watch previously uncovered Megvii code in…
Chinese Police Surveillance App Features Megvii Biometrics Tech: Human Rights Watch
“Responding to media inquiries, Megvii has asserted that it has no agreement for the use of its technology in the Chinese police app, and indeed that it has no…