‘Watch Lists’

Playing a game of ‘Guess Who?’ with visitors and contractors exposes businesses to untold security breaches. As a solution to that particular scenario, Proxyclick has launched its ID Match loud solution that verifies a guest’s true identity and stops any would-be imposters in their tracks…

The police service has come under fire from civil liberties campaigners for what’s described as the former’s “continued use of live facial recognition surveillance” which Big Brother Watch has branded “authoritarian, dangerous and lawless.”  Back in May, the campaign group obtained statistics using Freedom of…

Body-worn cameras may have started life primarily as a niche tool used in law enforcement and similar surveillance scenarios. However, due to enhancements such as an increase in battery power, their uses have expanded exponentially over the last few years, writes Richard Revis. They’ve been…

Big Brother Watch has launched a landmark legal challenge to the Metropolitan Police Service’s use of real-time facial recognition cameras. The organisation has joined forces with Parliamentarian Baroness Jenny Jones to urge Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service,…

Facial recognition technology and a ‘self-help’ approach towards crime prevention can save businesses millions of pounds and help to protect the public in commercially-operated spaces. That’s according to Nick Fisher, the newly-appointed CEO of Facewatch. With new investment following the completion of a successful fundraising…