by Lee Rickwood
Digital identification, facial recognition, biometric boarding and autonomous robots are among the new technologies you’ll find at the airport as ways to improve the travel experience for passengers and boost the bottom line for carriers.
by Lee Rickwood
The screen scraping of social media platforms for facial images and associated data has become yet another component of a global mass surveillance ecosystem that legislators, privacy advocates and end users are struggling to control or even influence
by Lee Rickwood
Banks in Canada and around the world are putting a new spin on the age-old service company mantra: KYC. Know your customer. Facial recognition and algorithmic identification technology makes it possible.
by Lee Rickwood
Facial coding is seen as an objective method for measuring emotions, based on the spontaneity of facial expressions and the human face’s own direct link to the brain and its sometimes mysterious workings.
by Lee Rickwood
Can so-called smart surveillance tools like biometrics and facial recognition make shopping safer?
by Lee Rickwood
Is privacy paramount? Either something is more important than anything else, or it isn’t. Canada’s legislators and privacy commissioners need to determine which.
by Lee Rickwood
We think our food choices are conscious, deliberate and guided by actual need, but they are in fact triggered by planned placement, strategic cross-promotion and now, technological innovation.
Companies planning to use facial recognition technology have had to face the music after protests from musicians and fans alike.
by Lee Rickwood