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A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. Three years ago, I wrote that campaigns to ban facial recognition are too narrow.

With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand's head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleague's name, give a reminder at a cocktail party that an acquaintance had kids to ask about or help find someone at a crowded conference. Six years later, the company now known as Meta has not released a version of that product and Mr. Leyvand has departed for Apple to work on its Vision Pro augmented reality glasses.

China has released draft regulations to govern the country's facial recognition technology that include prohibitions on its use to analyze race or ethnicity. According to the the Cyberspace Administration of China(CAC), the purpose is to "Regulate the application of face recognition technology, protect the rights and interests of personal information and other personal and property rights, and maintain social order and public safety" as outlined by a smattering of data security, personal information, and network laws.

Its abilities have been assessed over the past two years, and the system has boosted identity verification efficiency without infringing on travelers' privacy rights, a TSA spokesperson told us. "Right now we are at six percent fully operational capacity," TSA press secretary Carter Langston said in an interview with The Register.

Here's a look at the current top facial recognition software vendors, as well as use cases for the technology. Facial recognition software vendors Amazon Rekognition: Best overall facial recognition software.

Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has warned that oversight of facial recognition is a risk just as the policing minister plans to "Embed" it into the force. Sampson's job, if you were wondering, is to encourage "Compliance with the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice" - the only legal instrument that addresses police use of live facial recognition directly.

America's Transport Security Administration, better known as the TSA, has been testing facial recognition software to automatically screen passengers flying across the country in 16 airports. The equipment will snap a live photo of their face and check whether it matches with the one captured on their ID. The pilot program, testing the Credential Authentication Technology 2 system, aims to reduce security screening wait times by automating the process so TSA agents do not need to manually check IDs.

The French regulator's objection, which was echoed last year by at least the UK and the Australian regulator as well, is: "We consider this unlawful in our country. You can't go scraping people's images for this commercial purpose without their consent. And you're also not complying with GDPR rules, data destruction rules, making it easy for them to contact you and say, 'I want to opt out'." In the same way that Bletchley Park in the UK secretly employed more than 10,000 people I didn't realise this, but it turned out that there were well over 10,000 women recruited into cryptology, into cryptographic cracking, in the US to try and deal with Japanese ciphers during the war.

As with any technology, there are potential disadvantages to using facial recognition, including privacy and security issues. Privacy concerns around facial recognition technology.

We'll look at why companies are concerned about facial recognition as well as some alternatives that are both secure and friendly towards employees' concerns. The most common alternative to facial recognition would be two-factor authentication using an app such as Authy or Google Authenticator.