Tag: facial recognition
Tech Digest daily roundup: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition company
Senior officials at the Home Office secretly lobbied the UK’s independent privacy regulator to act “favourably” towards a private firm keen to roll out controversial facial recognition technology across the country, according to internal government emails seen by the Observer. Correspondence reveals that the Home Office wrote to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) warning that policing minister, Chris…
Biometric mobile payments to reach $1.2 billion by 2027, claims research
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the value of biometrically authenticated remote mobile payments will reach $1.2 trillion globally by 2027, rising from $332 billion in 2022. These transactions use biometrics - typically facial and fingerprint recognition - to authenticate remote mobile payments. This growth of 365% is driven by recent regulatory changes,…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Clearview AI fined £7.5m for facial recognition breach
Facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined more than £7.5m by the UK's privacy watchdog for collecting the facial images of people in Britain from the web and social media. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said that globally the company illegally collected more than 20 billion images of people's faces to create a global…
Facebook tops the list of app that collect most data on users, claims study
A new study by digital privacy software company, Clario, has analysed the world’s most downloaded apps and - perhaps not surprisingly - found that Facebook, Instagram and TikTok top the list for collecting and tracking your data including your FACE and voice. Facebook tracks your personal appearance, voice recognition, environment recognition and your contacts which…
Tech Digest daily round up: Facial recognition tech used in Swansea
https://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1938827 More arrests are due to be made this week and facial recognition will be used to trace others following violent disorder in Swansea, police have said. Seven arrests have already been made after cars were burnt out and windows smashed in Mayhill on Thursday...Seven officers were injured during the incident…
Tech Digest daily round up: NurseryCam system breached
A webcam system that lets parents watch their children while at nursery school has written to families to tell them of a data breach. NurseryCam said it did not believe the incident had involved any youngsters or staff being watched without their permission but had shut down its server as a precautionary measure. The Guildford-based…
Swann launches wire free security camera
DIY home security firm Swann has launched a wire free Security Camera that it claims can be set-up in seconds and which can be mounted both indoors or outdoors. Featuring free facial recognition for up to ten people, the wire free camera also boasts True Detect™ heat and motion sensing as well as infrared night…
Google confirms October 15 Pixel 4 launch
Google has confirmed it will hold an event on October 15 where the tech giant is expected to formally announce its next flagship smartphone, the Pixel 4. The US firm took the unusual step of confirming the Pixel 4’s existence in a video released in June after a number of leaks detailed features of the…
Facebook brings facial recognition setting to all users
Facebook is making its facial recognition setting available to all users but is keeping the function turned off by default amid ongoing unease about the technology. The social network’s face recognition system creates a “template” of a user’s face based on other images they are tagged in, which means it can inform people if someone…
Facial recognition technology at King’s Cross ‘not used since March 2018’
Facial recognition has not been in use around the King’s Cross area of London since March 2018, the site’s developers have claimed. Usage of the controversial technology has been under the spotlight after UK data and privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it had launched an investigation last month. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham…
