Face Recognition Current Affairs, GK & News
Police Use of Facial Recognition banned by Amazon
On June 11, 2020, the E-Commerce giant Amazon banned the use of its software “Rekognition” by the police. The software used to quickly compare a picture with the police data bases that holds hundreds of 1000s of photos. Why the ban? The facial recognition technology has been criticized over some time. This is mainly because, ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: Amazon • Amazon Global. • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • E-commerce • e-commerce platform • Face Recognition • Police
GOI: World’s largest Face Recognition system in India to track criminals
GoI has asked the IT companies across the world to send proposals to NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau) to install world’s largest facial recognition system. The winner of the bids will create National Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS). The step is an effort towards information gathering, police force modernization, criminal identification and verification. About AFRS ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019
Topics: Automatic Identification System • Criminal investigation • Face Recognition • National Crime Records Bureau • NCRB
Bengaluru airport set to become first in Asia to use face recognition as boarding pass
Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka is set to become first airport in Asia to introduce face recognition based passage system technology from 2019. For this, Bengaluru International Airport Ltd. (BIAL), which operates KIA has signed agreement with Portuguese software firm Vision Box. Key Facts The face recognition based passage system will ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2018
Category: Places in News Current Affairs
Topics: Bengaluru • Bengaluru airpor • Face Recognition • Kempegowda International Airport • National • Places in News • Science and Technology
UIDAI makes face recognition feature mandatory for Aadhaar authentication
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has announced new measure to make facial recognition mandatory for every authentication that requires Aadhaar. The facial recognition will come as additional feature along withregular authentication process that includes identification of an individual based on fingerprints or eye scans. Key Facts This new measure for using facial recognition is ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2018
Topics: Aadhaar authentication • Face Recognition • National • UIDAI
UIDAI announces phased rollout of face authentication
Aadhaar-issuing body UIDAI (Unique Identity Authority of India) has announced phased roll-out of face recognition for carrying out Aadhaar authentication from September 15, 2018 as additional security layer. It also has announced new feature ‘live face photo,’ which is live feed of person facial features whose 12-digit unique number Aadhaar is submitted. Face recognition The ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2018
Topics: Aadhaar • Aadhaar authentication • Face Authentication • Face Recognition • National • Telecom Service Providers • UIDAI