Facial Recognition Technology – THE OVAL CIRCLE

Israeli soldiers given ‘prizes’ for helping compile database of Palestinians’ pictures – reports

Posted on November 10, 2021November 10, 2021By Editor

The Israeli military has reportedly compiled a digital surveillance database to monitor Palestinians in Hebron in the West Bank using invasive facial recognition tech integrated into a network of cameras and soldiers’ phones. … Read More >Israeli soldiers given ‘prizes’ for helping compile database of Palestinians’ pictures – reports

World

Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates

Posted on November 4, 2021November 4, 2021By Editor

Citing “growing concerns” about privacy and ethics, Facebook has announced it will stop using face recognition technology and delete more than a billion individual templates harvested so far from users who opted into the program. … Read More >Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates

UK

Nine UK schools tell schoolkids to pay for lunch via FACIAL RECOGNITION as opponents warn it normalizes surveillance state

Posted on October 19, 2021October 19, 2021By Editor

Nine Scottish elementary schools have embraced a pilot plan to deploy facial recognition technology to verify children’s school lunch payments, insisting the system is faster and more hygienic, while dodging the privacy issue. … Read More >Nine UK schools tell schoolkids to pay for lunch via FACIAL RECOGNITION as opponents warn it normalizes surveillance state

Facebook imposed face recognition tech on 200,000 South Koreans & took social security info without consent, data watchdog finds

Posted on August 31, 2021August 31, 2021By Editor

Facebook created and stored facial recognition details on 200,000 users in South Korea by harvesting info from videos and photos without consent, a data privacy audit revealed. It also illegally collected social security numbers. … Read More >Facebook imposed face recognition tech on 200,000 South Koreans & took social security info without consent, data watchdog finds

EU

EU’s top privacy watchdogs urge blanket ban on use of recognition tech in public spaces

Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021By Editor

Two European privacy watchdogs have joined forces to call for a blanket ban on the use of biometric recognition in public spaces, outlawing such tech as AI-based facial, DNA, fingerprint and other recognition systems. … Read More >EU’s top privacy watchdogs urge blanket ban on use of recognition tech in public spaces

USA

NYPD operates over 15,000 facial recognition cameras as part of ‘Orwellian’ surveillance network – report

Posted on June 7, 2021By Editor

The NYPD controls an extensive network of cameras that it can use to track New Yorkers across the city, raising concerns about invasive and discriminatory policing tactics, according to an investigation by Amnesty International. … Read More >NYPD operates over 15,000 facial recognition cameras as part of ‘Orwellian’ surveillance network – report

World

Not even wildlife can go undetected: Australia trains AI road cameras for KOALA ‘facial recognition’

Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021By Editor

Researchers at an Australian university have been granted thousands of dollars from the government to work on AI-based devices that would help identify individual koalas crossing the roads in the country. … Read More >Not even wildlife can go undetected: Australia trains AI road cameras for KOALA ‘facial recognition’

EU

EU data protection watchdog says facial recognition should be banned due to ‘deep intrusion’ into people’s private lives

Posted on April 25, 2021April 25, 2021By Editor

Facial recognition should be banned from Europe’s public spaces, the EU’s independent data protection authority has said, just days after the bloc’s executive branch proposed a new bill allowing the partial use of the technology. … Read More >EU data protection watchdog says facial recognition should be banned due to ‘deep intrusion’ into people’s private lives

Russia

No card, no cash, no problem: Moscow Metro, the busiest subway system in Europe, to introduce ‘FacePay’ technology by end of 2021

Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021By Editor

The world’s most beautiful subway system is set to become one of the planet’s most high-tech, with Moscow Metro head of security revealing that passengers will soon be able to pay for rides with their faces before the end of 2021. … Read More >No card, no cash, no problem: Moscow Metro, the busiest subway system in Europe, to introduce ‘FacePay’ technology by end of 2021

The grim ‘New Normal’: Japanese firm unveils new facial recognition system that can identify people THROUGH their masks

Posted on January 9, 2021January 9, 2021By Editor

Japan’s NEC Corp has unveiled a facial recognition system which can verify a person’s identity even when they are masked, in a move which it claims will boost “the revival of economic activities under the ‘New Normal.’” … Read More >The grim ‘New Normal’: Japanese firm unveils new facial recognition system that can identify people THROUGH their masks