Private companies secretly used biometrics to develop improved immigration control systems. Lawyers from the South Korean NGO Lawyers for a Democratic Society (Minbyun) reported that the South Korean Ministry of Justice provided companies in the field of facial recognition technologies more than 100 million photographs of foreign citizens who arrived...
The military has been filling the database with thousands of images of Palestinians over the past two years. The Israeli military uses facial recognition technology to track Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Former Israeli soldiers told The Washington Post about a smartphone software called Blue Wolf that takes photographs...
The new system is designed to speed up queues and improve student safety in a pandemic. Nine schools in North Ayrshire will begin accepting school lunch fees by scanning students’ faces. The new system is designed to speed up queues and improve student safety in the face of the coronavirus...