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The groups, like Public Law Project and Big Brother Watch, warned that UK public bodies have been using AI in disturbing and secretive ways for years .
03 March 2021
Futurists have long predicted the rise of facial recognition. It’s a classic feature of science fiction, and today we are living that sci-fi life. We have self-driving cars, real-time translation apps, holograms of long-dead artists, and mind-controlled prosthetics. Facial recognition is just another of these mind-blowing tools that is coming of age.
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Rising to the Challenge: Perspectives from Security Leaders on 2020 and Beyond
For those who work in the security industry 2020 has been a particularly challenging year. Chris Price talks to five industry leaders from different perspectives in the sector about how they coped with COVID and asks them to look forward to 2021.
Jamie Allam, CEO of installation and integration firm Amthal Fire & Security 2020 was supposed to see us celebrating 20 years in business, but when COVID hit that turned all of our plans on their head. Literally overnight we went from a very traditional set up with everyone working in the office to buying laptops and a cloud-based phone system so that everyone, except our engineers, could work from home.