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Live Facial Recognition (LFR), is technology that can identify a person from a digital image. The technology is being used to assist in the prevention and detection of crime by identifying wanted criminals. (Photo: Metropolitan Police, UK)Technology
Like Hyderabad, & Bengaluru, facial recognition will also come to Pune...

Pune's airport shall soon have facial recognition systems for entry, boarding, and security checks according to reports...

19 Sept 2019 12:38 PM IST

IndiGo and SpiceJet are moving partially from T1 to the newly revamped T2 of the Delhi airport with effect from 12.01 am on Sunday.Business
Facial recognition system trial to begin at Delhi airport's T3...

After successful completion of the trial, the DIAL said facial recognition would be officially launched at Terminal 3.

7 Sept 2019 10:48 AM IST

Real-time crowd surveillance by British police is among the more aggressive uses of facial recognition in wealthy democracies and raises questions about how the technology will enter peoples daily lives. (Photo: AP)Technology
Police to use face scan tech, stokes privacy fears

The cameras will be put to work within a month in operational deployments of around 5-6 hours at potential crime...

27 Jan 2020 11:33 AM IST

In this representative image, commuters walk through ticket gates equipped with facial recognition systems at a metro station in Moscow on January 27, 2020. (Photo | AFP)Technology
Microsoft to stop funding facial recognition startups, divests from...

As a minority investor, Microsoft does not have enough oversight to ensure that the startup's tech is not used for mass...

28 March 2020 2:27 PM IST

Photo shows a surveillance camera at a metro station in Moscow on January 27, 2020. A vast and contentious network of facial-recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now being used in the effort to slow the rapid spread of coronavirus in Russia. (AFP)Technology
Covid-19 crisis may leave us vulnerable to surveillance

Who is to stop governments from continuing to use surveillance technologies even after the pandemic is brought under...

27 March 2020 6:16 PM IST

How smart devices are outsmarting crooksAge on Sunday
How smart devices are outsmarting crooks

From Fitbit bands to smart watches, intelligent speakers to pacemakers, modern tech is helping cops to nab criminals...

13 March 2020 4:13 PM IST

The Parliamentary panel urged the civil aviation ministry to provide adequate funds to enable facial recognition technology to be used at sensitive airportsTechnology
Introduce facial recognition tech at sensitive airports this year,...

The technology could alert law enforcement to loan defaulters and other fugitives trying to flee the country

12 March 2020 7:19 PM IST

US senators are scrutinising a facial recognition software company over privacy concerns and the possible sale of its services to authoritarian regimes. New York-based startup Clearview AI has drawn attention following investigative reports about its practice of harvesting billions of photos from social media and other services to identify people. (Image | Pixabay - Teguhjati Pras)Technology
Facial recognition used for rampant surveillance, say artists using...

A group holds monthly silent walks through various parts of London to raise awareness about the technology used for...

8 March 2020 3:44 PM IST

A Black man who says he was unjustly arrested because facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a suspected shoplifter is calling for a public apology from Detroit police, and for the department to abandon its use of the controversial technology. Several cities, led by San Francisco last year, have banned the use of facial recognition. (Photo | bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)Technology
Calls to abandon facial recognition use as wrongly identified Black...

The Detroit police has been challenged over face recognition flaws, bias, especially as it is prone to errors...

24 Jun 2020 6:44 PM IST

Facial recognition technology has a dark side, with it integrated into Chinas massive public surveillance system and its social credit experiment where even minor infractions of public norms can result in sanctions.Technology
What's the deal with facial recognition software and how it's...

Although firms like IBM have said it will no longer supply face scan software to police, several other players making...

18 Jun 2020 10:37 PM IST

Ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd have focused attention on racial injustice in the US and how police use technology to track people. In this picture, doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in a \White Coats for Black Lives\ event in solidarity with George Floyd and other black Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California on June 11, 2020. (Photo | AFP)Technology
Microsoft, Amazon, IBM decision to stop face scan tech for police use...

Companies that dominate the market in the US are less well known, including the Tokyo-based NEC and European companies...

12 Jun 2020 4:26 PM IST

Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition tech for a year till rules are framed to prevent misuseTechnology
Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition tech for a year till...

Two days ago, IBM announced that it would stop selling facial recognition tech for general purposes to prevent its use...

11 Jun 2020 6:40 PM IST

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