New Synthetic Datasets Are Changing the Future of Face Recognition
(The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Oct 01, 2025)
The lifecycle of a synthetic face recognition dataset describes the is a continuous process of generating, annotating, training, and refining artificial facial data to build robust machine learning models.
Live Facial Recognition Rolling Out to Police Forces Nationwide
(Identity Week, Oct 01, 2025)
A policing minister has praised the MET’s use of LFR in a suburb of London and indicated that the government is consulting on what safeguards and oversight are needed to instil public confidence in LFR technology.
Undercounted: The Hidden Deaths in America’s Jails
(NPR, Oct 01, 2025)
This year, jail officials in Philadelphia started putting digital wristbands on inmates that measure vital signs. They can alert staff when a medical emergency is happening. O’Dowd goes inside the city's jail complex with the Marshall Project’s Ilica Majahan to learn more.
Russia to Introduce Biometrics for Air Travel as Passport Alternative
(TASS Russian News Agency, Oct 01, 2025)
"Biometrics will be introduced for air travel. A four-party agreement on the matter was signed on the sidelines of the Digital Transportation Forum by Minister of Transport Andrey Nikitin, Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev, CEO of the Center for Biometric Technologies Vladislav Povolotsky, and Aeroflot CEO Sergey Alexandrovsky," the ministry said on its Telegram channel.
Travelers Units Freed of Privacy Litigation Costs in Camp Case
(Bloomberg Law, Oct 01, 2025)
Travelers Cos. units are off the hook for a summer camp software company’s costs in a proposed class action brought under Illinois’ landmark biometric privacy law over the use of facial recognition software for tagging individual campers in online photo galleries. An exclusion for claims arising out of the “access or disclosure of confidential or personal information” precludes coverage, the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois said in a Tuesday order. A different Illinois federal court this week also held the access or disclosure exclusion barred coverage claims under the Biometric Information Privacy Act in a separate...
