January 24, 2024 The mother of all breaches has leaked 26 billion user records, Gen Z are more likely to fall for a phishing or other cyber scam, humanoid robots are making their way to BMW’s auto plants more...
December 20, 2023 Rite Aid, an American drug store chain, will be banned by a regulator from using facial recognition applications to identify suspicious customers for five years because of the way it implemented the technology. The U.S. more...
November 9, 2023 South Wales Police used facial recognition technology to scan crowds attending a Beyoncé concert in Cardiff in May, searching for potential paedophiles and terrorists. Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael defended the use of the more...
November 1, 2023 New legislation limiting the use of facial recognition in Canada is needed according to civil liberties groups, who say proposed privacy and artificial intelligence laws now before Parliament are inadequate. The call by the Right2YourFace more...
April 20, 2023 Four independently-owned Canadian Tire affiliate stores in British Columbia that installed facial recognition applications for security broke the province’s privacy law, B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner has ruled. “The investigation showed that the stores did more...
October 7, 2022 The use of facial recognition technology by companies and government agencies should be strictly controlled, says a parliamentary committee. In a report this week presented to Parliament, the House of Commons ethics and privacy committee more...
August 16, 2022 Despite criticism that current facial recognition software is biased against people of colour, the RCMP is still interested in the technology, according to the head of the RCMP’s technical support team. “We would be remiss more...
May 2, 2022 Parliament should limit Canadian police use of facial recognition technology to closely defined circumstances such as serious crimes, the country’s federal, provincial, and territorial privacy commissioners said today. Their statement was released as three commissioners more...
