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Technology

Amazon Employees Join ACLU, Investors in Protest of Amazon’s Sale of Tech to Police

A group of Amazon employees have asked company executives to discontinue its sale of the company’s Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies.

June 22, 2018

Technology

Balancing Privacy Rights and Facial Recognition Technology for Police

Disruptive technologies present challenges for everyone — police administrators included. But such technologies also carry significant benefits not only for police, but for the citizens they are sworn to protect.

June 21, 2018

Technology

ACLU Demands Amazon Stop Providing Facial Recognition Tool to Law Enforcement

In Oregon, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office is using the program to look for matches within its own database of booking mug shots, said Deputy Jeff Talbot. The department also confirms each match made through the Rekognition software by another method, he said.

May 23, 2018

Technology

Panasonic Introduces FacePRO Facial Recognition Server Software

Panasonic System Solutions Company has introduced FacePRO, a deep learning facial recognition system using extreme sensing and enhanced detection technology to identify persons of interest and alert authorities of their presence in real-time.

April 10, 2018

Patrol

Florida Court Hearing Appeal of Case Involving Facial Recognition Technology

The court battle, regarded by researchers as the first of its kind in the country to consider how the surveillance tool can be used in a criminal case, is being waged over a statewide biometric database of faces run out of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office — one that extends to anyone with a Florida driver’s license despite their criminal histories, or lack thereof.

March 12, 2018

Technology

Ekin: Smart Patrol in a Lightbar

What if you could install one product on a patrol car that provided capability for automatic license plate recognition, facial recognition, and speed and parking violation detection? Billed as the first and only smart patrol in the world, Ekin's Patrol G2 is designed to do just that, in the form of a fully functioning lightbar.

February 7, 2018

Technology

Ekin Safe City Products Now Available to United States Market

Ekin, known for its safe city technologies, has now launched its full line of mobile and versatile security products in the United States.

January 8, 2018

Technology

FaceVACS-DBScan

Cognitec

FaceVACS-DBScan combines Cognitec’s renowned image database search technology with powerful video inspection tools for a multitude of investigation use cases.

October 30, 2017

Technology

Nominations for Vigilant Solutions’ Best in Force Award Now Open

Vigilant Solutions is now accepting nominations for the Best in Force award, an annual award recognizing law enforcement's innovative use of license plate recognition (LPR) and/or facial recognition (FR) technology.

June 30, 2017

Technology

New SentiVeillance 6.0 Improves Speed and Accuracy for Biometric Identification Using Surveillance Cameras

Neurotechnology has announced the release of the SentiVeillance 6.0 software development kit (SDK), which provides improved facial recognition using up to 10 surveillance, security, and public safety cameras on a single computer.

March 24, 2017

Technology

Bill Requiring CA Police to Disclose Surveillance Equipment Clears First Hurdle

Despite no show of public support, the state Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would require law enforcement agencies in California to disclose all of the surveillance equipment they use to the public.

March 23, 2017

Technology

Smart Phone Apps: Extra Features

Today we throw around the term "smartphone" with emphasis on the "phone" part of the word. But our real attention should be paid to the "smart." The processing power of these devices and their capabilities go far beyond cellular telephony. And manufacturers of law enforcement technology products have taken notice.

February 8, 2017