A two-year pilot program between the U.S. Postal Service and the FBI is bringing digital fingerprinting services to more than 100 post offices, according to a Federal News Network report on Monday (Nov. 2). The Postal Service is expanding its offerings to include biometrics and...
Ant Group, one of the world’s most valuable startups and pioneer of digital payments in China, may have lost a $439 million bet it made last year, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. The affiliate of the Alibaba Group and operator of Alipay, put up...
Privacy regulators in Australia and the United Kingdom announced a joint investigation Thursday (July 9) into Clearview AI, the New York-based facial recognition software maker. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the probe stems from...
CLEAR, a biometric ID company, is eyeing a new way to help companies scan for the coronavirus as employees eventually return to work. The program, called Health Pass by CLEAR, will let users download the CLEAR app and verify their identity with facial recognition. Then...
Tech companies want to get ahead of the law when it comes to facial recognition, seeking to restrict its use but also making sure the most severe regulations don’t come to pass, according to The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft and Amazon are among those slated to...
Microsoft and IBM have teamed up with the Vatican to call for ethical and responsible use and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition technology, according to a report by Reuters. Together, the trio said such technology should respect people’s privacy, function without bias, operate...
The European Union won’t be passing a blanket moratorium on facial recognition software after initially signaling that it would do so. Instead, it plans to leave the responsibility to member states. That decision has faced backlash from privacy advocates, who say civil liberties could be at...
Beijing Daxing International Airport has been incorporating facial recognition software more and more, and it’s being used to do everything from identifying passengers to purchasing items from the duty free store, according to a report by Bloomberg. China has been upping the ante on places...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reversed its plans for mandatory facial recognition scans of Americans arriving and departing the country, TechCrunch reported on Thursday (Dec. 5). The DHS said in a government filing by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that it wanted to...
