November 2019
In the grounds of the Leixlip Manor Hotel there is a place of solitude to remember Ana Kriégel. It’s a place where the 14-year-old girl played as a young child while her parents looked on, sometimes sipping a coffee inside. The death of a child is always distressing but the murder in extremely violent circumstances […]
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September 2019
King’s Cross Central’s developers said they wanted facial-recognition software to spot people on the site who had previously committed an offence there. The detail has emerged in a letter one of its managers sent to the London mayor, on 14 August. Sadiq Khan had sought reassurance using facial recognition on the site was legal. Two […]
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August 2019
A watchdog has penalised a local authority for trialling facial recognition on high-school students in Sweden to keep track of attendance. The Swedish Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined the Skelleftea municipality 200,000 Swedish Krona (£16,800, $20,700) for flouting a privacy law. The trial involved tracking 22 students over three weeks and detecting when each pupil entered […]
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August 2019
A leading Chinese facial recognition provider has filed papers for a listing on Hong Kong’s stock exchange. Megvii – the maker of the Face++ system – is one of the country’s best known artificial intelligence (AI) companies. Earlier this year, a Western study suggested its face-checking tech was more accurate than rival systems from Amazon […]
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August 2019
Visitors to a major shopping centre could have been scanned by facial-recognition cameras without knowing it, a civil liberties group said. Big Brother Watch said the trial at Meadowhall in Sheffield was part of a UK-wide facial recognition “epidemic”. The shopping centre’s owner said data was “deleted immediately” after the month-long police trial in 2018 […]
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