Yesterday, congress announced legislation that would prohibit the use of biometric recognition technology in most public and assisted housing units funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), with the goal of protecting tenants from “biased surveillance technology.” 

The city council of Oakland, Calif. has voted to ban the municipal use of facial recognition technology within its borders.

OP-400 is a next-generation face recognition reader designed for Lenel OnGuard and Amag Symmetry access control systems. Its unique integration eliminates the need for template management software.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has enacted to ban the use of facial recognition technology by police and all other municipal agencies.

IntelliVision Technologies added anti-spoofing to its face recognition technology.

Security integrators and end users in search of visitor management solutions have never had more choices; however, not all visitor management systems are created equal.

3xLOGIC released a special purpose, low cost, dual lens 2MP camera designed for instant face detection, identification and notification of persons of interest (POI).

BriefCam’s released v5.3 of its video content analytics platform.

FacePRO high-precision facial recognition software can identify faces that are difficult to recognize with conventional technologies, including faces at an angle of up to 45 deg. to the left or right or 30 deg. up or down, as well as those partially hidden by sunglasses.