Face Recognition: Improved Benefit? Or Erosion of Privacy?
Take Our Poll A Surveillance Society? I’m sat in Heathrow waiting for an early morning departure for a business trip. Sipping my coffee, I look casually around trying to spot the cameras. They’re...
View ArticleIn the wake of the London riots, is the privacy versus security debate now...
Allevate Presenting at Biometrics 2011 Synopsis Recent advances in the accuracy of face recognition are resulting in an explosion of its use, coupled with increasingly vociferous cries from privacy...
View ArticleBiometric security: More bottom-line benefits, less James Bond
Biometric security: More bottom-line benefits, less James Bond Carl Gohringer December 03, 2003 Bond movies will always be associated with state-of-the-art technology, but few of the products he uses...
View ArticleMan Films People in Public. Interesting Statement on Surveillance and Privacy
A very interesting piece to spark debate regarding safety versus privacy. WARNING: There are one or two minor instances of less than desirable language, mainly due to the state of annoyance of those...
View ArticleUK Schools banned from fingerprinting pupils without parental consent
The UK Department of Education has announced that schools will no longer be permitted to take pupils’ fingerprints or other biometric data without gaining parents’ permission. I am a firm believer in...
View Article“From grainy CCTV to a positive ID: Recognising the benefits of surveillance”
Interesting article in London’s Independent newspaper on CCTV surveillance and face biometrics. Especially interesting is the view of the combination of biometrics over CCTV with artificial...
View ArticleFace Recognition in Retail: Profit, Ethics and Privacy
You can download a PDF copy of this article by clicking this link. The accuracy of face recognition has increased dramatically. Though biometric technologies have typically been deployed by governments...
View ArticleTake the poll: Face Recognition: Improved Benefit or Invasion of Privacy?
Please refer here to an article discussing Face Recognition and Privacy Issues. Take Our Poll
View ArticleBiometrics 2013: Privacy at the cross road: A debate on frameworks
Allevate’s Carl Gohringer is pleased to be participating as a panellist at this week’s debate at Biometrics 2013 on privacy within the context of biometrics. Tuesday 15th October, 1600, Queen Elizabeth...
View ArticleWhy Privacy Matters
Massively interesting talk, that steers through the issues and concepts expertly. Too often the debate is positioned at its polarised extremes: Privacy is dead, bring on the technology Kill the...
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