Portland Goes Full China: Store Requires Looking at Camera to Enter
By Mike Campbell A convenience store in Portland, Oregon has implemented a digital face scan system that requires customers look at a camera before they…
By Mike Campbell A convenience store in Portland, Oregon has implemented a digital face scan system that requires customers look at a camera before they…
By Rónán Kennedy, University of Galway Science fiction’s visions of the future include many versions of artificial intelligence (AI), but relatively few examples where software…
By Masha Borak The European Union’s new law on exchanging data between national law enforcement authorities is set to increase the amount of data being…
By Bianca Gonzalez Kylese Perryman, 21, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against two police agencies in the U.S. state of Minnesota following his…
By Bianca Gonzalez According to a company statement from Iris ID, the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) Iris Service now has roughly 2.5 million identities…
By Chris Burt Demands to halt facial recognition use in Canada, at least pending further study and legislation, are not being met, or at least…
By Masha Borak Moroccans will soon be able to use their digital identity for accessing health services after government representatives signed an agreement that allows…
Obama advanced the cause of Technocracy more than any other president. It was Obama who severed the US control of The Internet Corporation for Assigned…
By Jim Nash Moved by a moral context, politically conservative U.S. states are lining up to pass age-verification laws designed to keep children from accessing…
By Masha Borak The French Senate voted on Monday to adopt a draft law on testing facial recognition technology in public spaces. The law will…
By William McCurdy The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program is now accepting applications around the topic of privacy-preserving digital credential…
By Masha Borak The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act entered its final phase on Wednesday after the European Parliament adopted its position on the landmark…
By B.N. Frank Last month it was announced that Amazon must pay $30.8 M to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for privacy violations…
By Masha Borak From Luxemburg and Estonia to South Africa and Vietnam, governments across the world are rolling out digital IDs, sometimes but not always…