Tag: facial recognition
Facial recognition at the service of families of Holocaust victims
An American engineer has voluntarily developed a powerful facial recognition system to identify anonymous victims of the death camps during the Second World War. Free, it is accessible to the…
Shanghai spends billions on population control
After two months of confinement due to a new wave of Covid-19, the approximately 26 million inhabitants of Shanghai have regained their former life. The images show them running to…
Shanghai spends billions on facial recognition to control population
After two months of confinement due to a new wave of Covid-19, the approximately 26 million inhabitants of Shanghai have regained their former life. The images show them running to…
Payment by credit card: smile, you are debited!
In Brazil, Mastercard is experimenting with payment by facial recognition in supermarkets. This biometric process worries the United States and Europe, which limit or even ban facial recognition in public…
Facial recognition will soon be used by Ukraine at checkpoints
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French company identifies Russian soldiers in Ukraine using facial recognition
In one hour and thanks to freely accessible facial recognition tools, the French company Tactical Systems Académie was able to identify a Chechen fighter sent to reinforce Russian troops on…
Tattoos on your face will no longer be a problem for facial recognition
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Humanity shares 70% of its facial expressions The approximately seven billion humans inhabiting the Earth would have another point in common. Finally, 16…
Private data: Europol ordered to erase the data of innocent people
According to an analysis by the European privacy policeman, Europol keeps vast amounts of personal data of innocent people, going against European regulations. Accused of mass surveillance, the agency has…
South Korea: thousands of cameras and facial recognition to “follow” Covid-19 patients!
To reinforce its contact case tracing teams, the city of Bucheon in South Korea is implementing facial recognition on more than ten thousand security cameras. The new system will automatically…
Chromebook will alert you if someone is looking over your shoulder
Google is currently working on a human presence sensor for Chromebooks, which identifies people visible to the webcam. According to a new Chrome flag just added, the sensor will let…