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...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to update a current law requiring non-U.S. citizens to be subject to facial recognition scans while entering and leaving the country to include U.S. citizens, according to a report by TechCrunch. U.S. citizens had previously been exempt from...
China has implemented a new policy requiring citizens who want new phone service to scan their faces to verify identities instead of simply presenting ID cards, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The new requirement went into effect Sunday (Dec. 1), and...