Latest Facial recognition News & Updates

New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) NPCI BHIM Services Limited (NBSL), a wholly owned arm of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), on Tuesday introduced a new biometric authentication feature for UPI payments on the BHIM Payments App.This update allows users to approve transactions of up to Rs 5,000 using their smartphone’s fingerprint or facial recognition, making payments faster and more convenient.With this feature, users no longer need to enter their UPI PIN for every small transaction. It…

New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Pakistan’s Safe City projects have evolved from being anti‑terrorism measures to an infrastructure of daily surveillance of its population in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, a report has said.The report from Human Rights Research Center said networked surveillance cameras, biometric interfaces and central command centres now form the backbone of urban policing.”Facial recognition links national ID databases with real-time tracking, which makes it possible to identify…