facial recognition technology Archives

General Services Administration adding facial recognition to Login.gov

10/31/202310/30/2023 Jennifer Goula

The GSA is altering its digital identity service to let users authenticate themselves based on ID. The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced that it is adding facial recognition to its digital identity services, letting users authenticate themselves based on using the technology to match their faces against a government ID already submitted to their accounts. The new service will provide a single sign-on services for Americans using Login.gov. In this way, Login.gov will accept facial recognition as an authentication against the image on an already-submitted government ID. Americans will…

Amazon facial recognition helps identify missing and dead following Hamas attack

10/25/202310/24/2023 John Montgallo

Facial Recognition - Identifying individuals

The Israeli military’s “Cyber War Room” used the technology for identification purposes. The Israeli military has used Amazon’s facial recognition system to identify at least 60 missing people using videos and images scraped from various social media platforms such as TikTok and Facebook. The project is being used to help identify missing and dead people after the Hamas attack on Israel. Hamas launched deadly terrorist attacks on Israel earlier this month, resulting in about 1,300 deaths and hundreds of missing people. A group of cyber experts started a volunteer project…

UK government seeks to use more facial recognition tech

09/07/202309/06/2023 L. Green

The Ministry of Defence has called on tech companies to submit ideas for the expansion of its use. The UK government is working on expanding the way it is using facial recognition technology in security agencies and police forces. It is currently actively seeking input from companies for ideas to broaden the use of the tech. The Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is currently seeking to identify and fund facial recognition technology for the country’s security services, armed forces and police. As a major component of…

Facial recognition technology to be implemented for Paris 2024 Olympics

03/21/202303/20/2023 Sam Lambert

Facial recognition - Paris with olympic rings in background

France Television has been running a number of tests with the tech on Paris streets. Though it can’t really be seen as we go about our everyday lives, facial recognition technology has been making its way into a broad spectrum of our typical activities, from unlocking smartphones to interacting with certain businesses and when traveling. Even when we feel we’re just another face in the crowd, we are far from going unnoticed. Facial recognition technology advances have made it increasingly challenging for people to be able to move around anonymously,…

Air Canada becomes first airline to test facial recognition tech for ID verification in Canada

02/27/202302/27/2023 Amanda Giasson

Facial recognition tech - Air Canada Plane

The major Canadian airline has launched digital identification. Air Canada recently announced the launch of its facial recognition tech, becoming Canada’s very first airline to receive approval to offer its customers the security and convenience of a new digital option to confirm their identification. Air Canada’s digital identification offers customers a seamless boarding option. The digital identification offered by the airline is a single enrollment feature on the Air Canada app. The biometric data of the customer is encrypted and stored only on the customer’s mobile phone. For the data…