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This week, I tried to opt out of the facial recognition system at my local Sainsbury’s supermarket. Sainsbury’s is far from alone in using live facial recognition technology. Sainsbury’s first began trialing facial recognition in September 2025 across just two stores. With market leaders like Sainsbury’s publicly endorsing facial recognition, other high-street chains will watch the rollout closely. Big Brother Watch has launched a campaign encouraging shoppers to object, while a petition calling on the Government to halt the use of facial recognition has surpassed 41,000 signatures.
New investigators to support city crime crackdown Three new investigators are being funded to support police in tackling retail crime in Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Police said the initiative would be a "huge benefit for our retail community who are being targeted by shoplifters". A number of high-profile initiatives have been brought in to improve safety in the city centre. "We simply won't tolerate offenders coming into Nottingham to commit crime and causing problems for our hard-working business community." Listen to BBC Radio Nottingham on Sounds and follow BBC Nottingham on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram.
All are built on top of K2 Horizon, IFM’s latest fleet of fully open-source foundation models launched last month. Paired with the language models, Jais Speech lets Jais 3 take spoken instructions in Arabic or English and act on them. Jais 3 was created by the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) at MBZUAI and Inception42, in collaboration with Cerebras Systems. Jais 3 and Jais Speech are available today on Hugging Face, with deployment support for vLLM and SGLang. About the Institute of Foundation Models The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) is a global AI research lab dedicated to open and independent development of frontier-class foundation models.
@yersocialistdad A remote worker was fired after her employer demanded webcam photos every 3 minutes while she worked from home. Her lawsuit says an AI tool called Sentinel AI would photograph her face about 160 times a day, inside her own house, and run facial recognition on every shot. More background Rather than licensing Sentinel AI, Sutherland built the software itself, later patented it, and now sells it to other businesses, according to The Unraveling. The same press release said Sentinel AI reduces the time supervisors spend monitoring employees by as much as 90%, with "millions of dollars saved." Because Sutherland markets Sentinel AI beyond its own workforce, the case could help test the limits of employer use of facial-recognition monitoring inside home workspaces.
The Minnesota Twins have a Gold Glove finalist at third base. Brooks Lee was named one of three American League finalists for the 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award, alongside Caleb Durbin of the Boston Red Sox and Nick Loftin of the Kansas City Royals. The nomination is impressive because Lee did not begin the season at third base. Lee went from a defensive weakness to the Twins' best defender from mid-May onward. Gold Glove winners will be announced November 1st on an exclusive ESPN broadcast.
Starting November 30, 2026, developers seeking to enter the 1:N evaluation must submit at least one algorithm to the 1:1 track. The 1:N evaluation measures identification, in which a face is searched against a gallery of identities. Its announcement does not say existing 1:N participants must qualify retroactively. New datasets for 1:N NIST is also adding multiple datasets to the 1:N evaluation. Unlike the accuracy prerequisite, which applies to new 1:N participants, the updated speed requirement applies to submissions in both evaluation tracks.
It also serves as a 5MP Color Camera Module and an AR0521 Camera Module for designs that need the sensor with finished output. As an RK3588 Camera Module, a Rockchip MIPI Camera, and a Rockchip Camera Module, it avoids the weeks of host ISP tuning that raw sensor modules usually require. A Color MIPI Camera Module that supports both lets a team use each where it fits. About Vadzo Imaging Vadzo Imaging is a global provider of embedded vision solutions and delivers high-performance camera technologies and imaging platforms for applications in robotics, industrial automation, UAVs, edge AI, and medical systems. Media Contact Alwin Vincent Vadzo Imaging Email: alwin@vadzoimaging.com LinkedIn: Vadzo Imaging YouTube: Vadzo Imaging X: Vadzo Imaging SOURCE: Vadzo Imaging Source: Vadzo Imaging
On days when TSA screens over 3 million people, seconds saved per traveler become an operational calculation. At Charlotte Douglas International Airport, eight self-service e-gates saved about three seconds per identity check during a 2026 trial. “A strong focus on passenger flow remains essential to ensure travelers understand and are comfortable with the new process,” he said. The maintenance gap illustrates the wider problem identified by Scott Moser, Sabre’s chief information security officer: “Autonomy without trust is unusable.” Because identity data moves among airlines, airports, hotels, governments and payment providers, he said, “privacy and security have to be built into every layer.”
The UK’s data protection regulator has issued a reprimand and enforcement notice to the capital’s police force after a string of governance failings related to its use of a third-party platform. The investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) was focused on Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) use of the Auror retail crime intelligence-sharing platform, which it used in a crackdown on shoplifting. The watchdog found that, between March 2023 and September 2024, MPS officers and staff used the platform despite it not being formally approved. Read more on MPS privacy woes: ICO Reprimands Metropolitan Police for Data Snafu Two “security incident reports” were raised internally at the time. “Organizations cannot allow innovation to outpace their data protection responsibilities.
Langley backs surveillance Flock founder and CEO Garrett Langley defended surveillance technology at a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco on Wednesday, arguing that society should not pause progress. Langley also said, "Technology, at its core, in its definition, is just doing things better. Reporting for this sectionTechCrunch Backlash and contract fallout Langley’s remarks came as criticism of Flock had led to cancelled contracts and even layoffs. Cadena 3 described Langley’s defense at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 as he faced rising privacy criticisms that had driven contract cancellations and layoffs. Langley addressed the idea that misinformation about Flock had led to some customers’ cancellations, including the same facial recognition claim.
Fairness assessment adds another layer of complexity because demographic disparity can appear at several points in a biometric system. Then comes the next problem: with so many fairness metrics, which one should be used? This suggests that future guidance should not only define how fairness metrics are calculated. By contributing to research on the behavior of fairness metrics, Fime is helping build the evidence needed for more robust testing methods and clearer future guidance. Download the scientific paper to explore how to select the right fairness metrics for robust and reliable biometric evaluations.
Most facial recognition deployments run on the same 1080p-to-4K, 15-to-30-frames-per-second camera feeds already installed for ordinary video security, so the marginal hardware cost is often close to zero. How AI Facial Recognition Actually Works Every facial recognition system follows the same three-step pipeline: detect a face in a video frame, convert its geometry into a mathematical template, and compare that template against a stored gallery. What is the difference between facial verification and facial identification? Can a facial recognition match alone justify an arrest? Most current law-enforcement guidance and several court rulings now treat a facial recognition match as an investigative lead requiring independent corroboration, not as standalone proof of identity.
She said most of it was filmed at home on her own phone because the company did not supply equipment. She said she is in early conciliation through ACAS because she believes the redundancy was pregnancy discrimination. She said the image dispute emerged after her departure, when she spotted an ad that seemed to use a frame from a video she had created on the job. "The still is the same image; however, my eyes are a different colour and tattoos are gone," she said. • AI startup Artisan sparked outrage with a dystopian ad campaign that glorified replacing human workers.
Apple (AAPL) announced HomeView on Tuesday, a new smart home hub. For Apple stock, the bigger benefit may be that more connected devices make customers less likely to leave the Apple ecosystem. For now, Apple stock will likely keep trading on iPhone demand and memory costs. Estimate a company’s fair value instantly (Free with TIKR) >>> So what is Apple stock actually worth? Just enter a few assumptions into TIKR’s valuation model and see what AAPL stock could be worth.
One of the biggest features that the Apple HomeView offers is the ability to recognize up to six members in a Family Sharing group. This means that HomeView ensures that personal information, such as your calendar events and messages, can be viewed only by you when you view them on the HomeView. The HomeView doesn’t have Face ID or a TrueDepth camera system; instead, the HomeView just has a 12MP Center Stage camera. Thankfully, John Gruber from Daring Fireball provides more details on how facial recognition works specifically on the HomeView. It’s still interesting to see how this would work on the Apple HomeView, as it was just a brief demo shown in the video above.
Denton, Texas-based Carton Council has launched a library to help artificial intelligence (AI)-powered sorting systems more reliably recognize food and beverage cartons. The Carton Council is building a growing library of photographs showing cartons as they appear in the recycling stream. Computer vision and AI-based material recognition systems identify objects moving across MRF conveyor belts based on characteristics learned from large collections of images. Carton Council says the quality and diversity of the training images can play a role in how reliably the systems recognize materials under real-world operating conditions. “Our goal has always been to work across the recycling system to improve carton recovery,” Carton Council President Jordan Fengel says.
The UK has published updated guidance governing Immigration Enforcement’s use of live facial recognition to locate people of immigration law enforcement interest, setting out rules for watchlists, deployment locations, human oversight and biometric matching thresholds. The new guidelines instruct IE staff on “how to use overt LFR to locate relevant people lawfully and ethically” and “support IE’s and the Home Office’s legitimate immigration enforcement aims. The policy also makes clear that Immigration Enforcement’s use of live facial recognition is not confined to ports of entry. The guidance also provides for cooperation with police forces, including joint deployments in which Immigration Enforcement can supply watchlists for police facial recognition systems or process police-supplied data through its own systems. The arrangements extend the potential operational reach of facial recognition in immigration enforcement while requiring deployments to remain subject to the policy’s safeguards.
Technology and Science13 October, 20262 min read Apple Launches HomeView Smart Display With Siri AI, Facial Recognition, And 7-Inch Screen This article is an automated aggregation of coverage from news outlets. Apple unveiled HomeView, a 7-inch smart display hub powered by Siri AI. HomeView arrives at $299 Apple introduced Apple HomeView as a new smart display designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it, and Apple said it is powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI at its core. HomeView features Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri with broad world knowledge that powers richer music discovery and onscreen awareness. HomeView can be used to make FaceTime calls and to manage smart home devices, and HomeView supports hands-free automations with voice control.
The meeting was held on August 20, the day after Craig Naylor, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS), went public with calls for facial recognition technology to be used to monitor who is attending football matches. Police Scotland has never deployed facial recognition technology, although it is controversially used south of the Border. The minutes of the meeting between the Scottish Government and Police Scotland in August state: “The Cabinet Secretary invited views on HMICS's recent comments regarding the potential use of Live Facial Recognition technology to help tackle football-related disorder. “The Chief Constable noted that the technology is already used by a number of police forces elsewhere in the UK, as well as by Border Force in England and Wales. The minutes add: “The Chief Constable … advised that work to implement the new arrangements was underway.