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09Feb/24

Orca Scan launches three-step solution to connect millions of retail products to the internet

February 9, 2024InternetAutomatic identification and data capture, Barcode, Barcodes, Cambridge, Encodings, GS1, GS1 Australia, Mobile tagging, Packaging, QR code, Scan, United Kingdomadmin

Cambridge-based software company Orca Scan has partnered with GS1 UK, the UK arm of the global not-for-profit association that sets and maintains standards for barcodes, to help brands upgrade traditional barcodes on their product packaging to the next generation of GS1 Digital Link QR codes. Read more

12Jan/24

Facial recognition in Brazil: absent students and racial bias

January 12, 2024SecurityAutomatic identification and data capture, Biometrics, Brazil, Eduardo Matarazzo, Face ID, Facial recognition software, Facial recognition system, Luiz Eduardo Matarazzo, Recognition, Ring, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Surveillance, Video surveillanceadmin

By Diana Baptista | Data Journalist

A facial recognition system used in schools in Brazil is being scrutinised by digital rights groups, who have denounced the expansion of so-called techno control in the country. Continue reading →

26Jul/23

São Paulo fights facial recognition

July 26, 2023SecurityAmazon, Automatic identification and data capture, Brazil, Closed-circuit television, Facial recognition system, Folha de S.Paulo, Grupo Folha, New York City, Ring, Sampa, São Paulo, Smart Sampa, Surveillance, United States, Video surveillanceadmin

By Diana Baptista | Data Journalist

Digital rights groups in Brazil protested against Smart Sampa, a government program seeking to install 20,000 security cameras with facial recognition technology in São Paulo by 2024.

Using drones, the groups projected slogans like “No More Invasive Surveillance” and “Respect our Rights” on building walls. Continue reading →

03Mar/23

ID of 93 million Nigerians at risk in landmark election

March 3, 2023SecurityAbuja, amnesty international, Automatic identification and data capture, Babajide Briggs, Biometrics, Countries, Elections in Nigeria, Electoral fraud, Facial recognition system, Felix Morka, Ghana, Identity document, International organizations, Kenya, Kolawole Oluwadare, Lagos, Learning, Malawi, Matt Mahmoudi, Nigeria, Rotimi Oyekanmi, Samson Itodo, Sierra Leone, Surveillance, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Video surveillance, Voter registration, YIAGA Africa, Yolaadmin

Facial recognition and fingerprints needed to cast votes
Privacy experts fear mass breach of Nigerians’ identity
Aim is to root out widespread electoral fraud

LAGOS – Africa’s biggest electorate votes on Saturday in a poll that experts fear could unleash a mass breach of privacy as Nigerians relinquish reams of personal data to cast their vote.
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05Feb/23

Six parts of your car that gather data on you

February 5, 2023TransportArtificial intelligence, Automatic identification and data capture, Automatic number-plate recognition, Control engineering, Creative Commons, ECall, Electronic control unit, Electronic toll collection, Embedded systems, Power control, Rachael Medhurst, Road traffic management, Seat belt, SHUTTERSTOCK, Technology, United Kingdom, Walesadmin

Rachael Medhurst, University of South Wales

You can tell a lot about someone from the car they drive. The data that many vehicles now collect can reveal the patterns of our daily lives and provide insights into our behaviour, actions and even our state of mind.

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15Nov/22

Facial recognition: An ethical policing tool?

November 15, 2022SecurityAutomatic identification and data capture, Beijing, Belgium, Bill, Biometrics, Caitlin Chin, China, Closed-circuit television, Colombia, Crime prevention, Evani Radiya-Dixit, Face ID, Facial recognition system, Lauren Rhue, Law enforcement, Learning, London, Luxembourg, Mark Travis, Morocco, National security, Netflix, Nicol Turner Lee, Prevention, Samuel Woodhams Digital, Shanghai, Surveillance, United Kingdom, United States, Video surveillance, Xinjiangadmin

By Samuel Woodhams | Digital rights researcher and journalist

Facial recognition technology made headlines again last month as researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK said that the UK police’s use of the technology was unethical and potentially unlawful. The report from the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy urged police to stop using live facial recognition (LFR) in public spaces and said trials by the Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police failed to meet the “minimum legal and ethical standards.” Continue reading →