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Facial recognition technology used by Meta to spot scam adverts featuring celebrities is to be introduced in the EU and the EU for the first time.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police should be allowed to use real-time, AI-powered face-recognition to combat crime, Sweden's government proposed on Thursday, as it seeks new tools to stop sometimes violent offences rocking the Nordic country in recent years.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Tuesday (March 25, 2025)
The system is also meant to deter scalpers, who buy tickets and resell them for higher prices.
The new technology has been used to arrest people wanted for criminal offences ranging from theft to rape across London.
Harvard students' revamped Meta smart glasses identified people quickly and easily, raising fears about AI's unpredictable risks.
On a recent Friday afternoon, Kashif Hoda was waiting for a train near Harvard Square when a young man asked him for directions. Hoda was struck by the man’s nerdy, thick-framed glasses, but he did not realise that they were Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and that a small white light indicated that they were recording.
Touch 'n Go (TNG) eWallet is now offering a Licence Plate Recognition (LPR) feature for making parking payments in the app, allowing for automatic parking fee deductions at certain locations.
Cars that can recognise their owners from a distance are only a few years away, according to car tyre giant Continental, which is demoing a high-tech prototype car at the CES tech fair taking place in early January.
(Reuters) - Spanish travel booking group Amadeus will buy Portugal-based face-recognition technology company Vision-Box for 320 million euros ($346.7 million), it said in a filing to the CNMV stock market regulator.
Genesis, Hyundai’s premium brand, is creating a stir by introducing the first-ever solution for unlocking a car with face recognition, through tech implemented directly into the vehicle.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is launching a facial recognition tool to detect scam adverts featuring images of celebrities in Britain, the European Union and South Korea.
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month.
Facial recognition tech eases security and boarding processes at KLIA.
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it would stop selling technology that guesses someone's emotion based on a facial image and would no longer provide unfettered access to facial recognition technology.
(Reuters) -Facebook Inc announced on Tuesday it is shutting down its facial recognition system, which automatically identifies users in photos and videos, citing growing societal concerns about the use of such technology.
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) -Three U.S. senators on Tuesday called on the Department of Labor to help states find alternatives to identity verification provider ID.me for screening people seeking unemployment aid because they said its technology raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns.
Ukraine is employing face recognition technology from the controversial Clearview AI to identify Russian soldiers killed on its soil, in order to inform the soldiers' family.
BEIJING (AFP): Firms using facial recognition in China will be required to obtain consent or legal permission before collecting personal information, draft regulations released Tuesday Aug 8) said, while stipulating the rules would not apply to some bodies.
Amazon said on May 18 it is extending its ban on the use of its facial recognition tools for law enforcement, amid persistent concerns of bias in the technology.
