BlackRock Recruiter Serge Varlay is the latest victim of journalist James O’Keefe’s new outlet O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), making startling claims about the investment company…
Governments around the world are attempting to make it easier for people to acquire travel documents like visas and passports. A new system to digitize…
The Indonesian government is developing a facial recognition system to identify passengers using its transportation system. According to reporting by Antara News, the ministry is…
European ride-hailing firm Bolt will start using self-driving robots to deliver customers’ food as part of a new partnership with fellow Estonian company Starship Technologies,…
Have you ever tried to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription? It’s pretty tough, right? And yet you likely found it very easy to sign up…
The United Nations has unveiled an “automated” fact-checking service to counter so-called disinformation and hate speech on the internet in a project partnered with Big-Tech…
High-level officials from the CIA, FBI, and NSA are testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, asking Congress to continue allowing the agency to spy…
Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm. Scientists say these model…
Reports continue to indicate that all autonomous (aka self-driving) vehicles –not just Tesla’s – are plagued with safety problems (see 1, 2, 3, 3, 4). …
The Dutch government is unrelenting in shutting down “pollution-emitting” farmers and forcing them to sell to the government. The lever is a severe cutback in…
LEEDS, United Kingdom — Phone addiction could shorten kids’ lives, a child expert and psychotherapist claims. Dr. Charlotte Armitage says that along with social media…
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has acknowledged that “massive immigration just doesn’t work” as he announced changes to the country’s border control policy that would…
A Twitter user posted footage Thursday showing an Aldi supermarket in Greenwich, London that is only open to citizens who download an app on their…
By as early as March 2024, Japan’s Seven Bank will allow customers to make deposits and withdrawals using facial recognition at roughly 20,000 ATMs in…
Flyers in Gandhi International Airport (IGI) in Delhi, India, can now use facial recognition to move throughout the terminal, including security and boarding areas, without…
Amazon and coffee retailer Starbucks are being sued in U.S. federal district court for misusing customers’ biometric identifiers. The proposed class action (2:23-cv-00852) has been…
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Council has adopted a new set of recommendations on how digital identity should be governed. The OECD recommendations…
Cameroon’s Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Alamine Ousmane Mey, on Friday June 9, signed a partnership agreement with the French Development Agency,…
The AC Marriott hotel in Escazú, Costa Rica, reportedly is using robotics that can scan faces to interface with guests, reports QCostaRica. Sold by the…