Leading e-cigarette manufacturer RELX opened its first flagship store in China this month equipped with facial recognition cameras that would alert staff when a suspected underaged person enters the store. The deployment of these cameras is part of the company’s Project Sunflower scheme, which prevents underage access and use of e-cigarettes by minors. Under the … Read more
Retired Brown, Goldstein & Levy Partner Joshua Treem was honored with the prestigious Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award by the Maryland State Bar Association Section of Criminal Law and Practice at a reception on March 19. The Heeney award is given annually to an individual who exemplifies the highest professional standards and achievement in the … Read more
Handing down its verdict in China’s first court case over face recognition technology, the Fuyang District People’s Court in the eastern Zhejiang province found that Hangzhou Safari Park’s use of the technology without visitors’ consent to facilitate their admission into the park “illegal and unnecessary”. The court also ruled that the park should pay the … Read more
The use of facial recognition identification should not be forced upon people, and service providers will be required to offer alternative ID methods, under regulations due to come into effect in China on June 1. The new rules mark Beijing’s first major attempt to regulate facial recognition, a technology widely adopted around the country – … Read more
Taiwan-based CyberLink, a pioneer in AI and facial recognition technologies, has rolled out a major upgrade of its FaceMe Security solution, adding features such as people identification and contactless access control. FaceMe is optimised for IoT devices, being uniquely positioned to integrate edge-based AI facial recognition into a wide range of IoT and AIoT solutions. … Read more