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Russian facial recognition continues selling abroad
Russian developers are still able to find potential buyers of their digital surveillance technologies abroad despite sanctions imposed by western powers. They are also maintaining existing business ties with others .. read the full report here

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Canadian academic report urges no facial recognition at legislature, reasons why sow confusion
Canada’s Parliamentary Protective Service is thinking about deploying face biometrics around the country’s legislature. As part of that process, the...
 
Two ways to not protect biometric data demonstrated by world’s most populous countries
Several civil society groups in India are highly concerned about the spread of facial recognition and other surveillance technologies in...
NIST listening to AI community on a proposed risk management framework
The U.S. government wants everyone to do better at incorporating trust into their AI products’ design, development, use and evaluation....
 
Gait recognition could be better than face biometrics to ID coboting workers
Citing the need for a workplace robot to know the humans working around it, researchers writing in the journal Scientific...
Aratek launches multimodal biometric software platform for access management, HR tracking
Taiwan-based security company Aratek has released a new multimodal biometric system for access management applications with face and finger recognition...
 
Contactless biometrics from Tech5 integrated with ZA police, state enterprise platforms
Law enforcement and public enterprise software-maker Barizma has integrated contactless fingerprint and face biometrics from Tech5 with a pair of...
CAT2 request goes out for facial recognition at US airports
The U.S. government is advertising for a vendor that can add face biometrics to its existing ability to validate document-credentialing...
 
What private data? New camera only sees what it’s told to look for
Researchers say they have devised a camera that can take pictures of target objects and nothing else in the frame....
Datatang adds 5,000 Traditional Chinese characters to OCR system
Beijing-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Datatang has updated its optical character recognition (OCR) database to include 5,000 handwritten characters in...
 
Dignari selected to provide digital identity and access management services to US gov for $29M
Security firm Dignari will provide the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with identity,...
Nigeria’s INEC sued to allow biometric authentication of voters without voter cards
Nigerian businessman Dr. Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh is asking a federal high court in Abuja to declare that the National Independent...
 
Successfully implementing a digital identity framework
By David Mahdi, CSO and CISO Advisor, Sectigo As an increasing amount of personal and critical business information is available...
American researchers probe where biometric bias comes in and how to measure it
A pair of papers on why biometric systems are so often found to be less effective with some demographic groups...
 
UK’s mobile biometric equipment tender falls through, renewed by gov
A UK government contract for mobile biometric equipment (MBE) worth £450,000 (roughly $527,000) was not awarded as no compliant kit...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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SPIE Remote Sensing
  September 5, 2022 - September 8, 2022
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BIOSIG 2022 – 21st International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group
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