Hikvision has received the most global news reporting of any video surveillance company, ever, ranging from the WSJ, the Financial Times, Reuters, the NY Times, SCMP and more. This directory catalogs and links to 100+ of them. November...
By IPVM Team - 4 days ago
Oosto (formerly Anyvision) has called out Clearview AI, stating "that biometrics should be deployed with empty databases" in a recent release, referring to the US company's practice of scraping billions of photos from social media to use in its...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 15 days ago
This 24-page guide provides an in-depth explanation of mobile apps in VMS/VSaaSes. In this guide, we cover: Mobile Monitoring Mobile App vs Web Client VMS vs VSaaS Mobile Apps Viewing Live Video Search/Playback Limits PTZ Control...
By Sean Patton - 16 days ago
This directory provides a list of facial recognition providers to help readers consider options and make sound purchasing decisions based on their individual requirements. Face Rec Going Mainstream While facial recognition was once a niche...
By IPVM Team - 22 days ago
Brazilian media, academics, and NGOs are voicing alarm at facial recognition's growing popularity in the country, where its use has gone beyond public safety and concerns about its consequences for minority groups intensify. In this post,...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 23 days ago
US startup Swiftlane, a cloud-based, subscription access system, combines face recognition and video intercoms while using iPhones as readers/intercom stations. Inside this report, based on speaking with the company's CEO, we...
By Brian Rhodes - 27 days ago
Turing AI (previously Video) is aggressively expanding with lines of relabeled IP Cameras and NVRs (tested) as well as a VSaaS they call "Vision" but how well does Vision work? We tested Turing Vision's cloud-based VMS and inside of this...
By Ilya Ignatenko and Sean Patton - 28 days ago
Corsight AI aggressively claims that its facial recognition software works under extremely difficult conditions like below with a person in a crowd wearing a mask and with his head titled: IPVM spoke with Corsight AI's CEO Robert Watts to...
By Robert Wren Gordon and Sean Patton - about 1 month ago
This 21-page guide explains the fundamentals and challenges of VMS/VSaaS integration with video analytics. In this report, we examine the pros, cons, and common challenges including: Unified Single Vendor vs 3rd Party Integrated Camera Vs...
By Sean Patton - about 1 month ago
The European Parliament singled out Clearview AI in a resolution on artificial intelligence last week, declaring that the US company's database was "collected illegally." However, Clearview AI's CEO disputed that in a statement to...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 2 months ago
The European Parliament adopted a sweeping resolution last week, calling for bans on law enforcement use of closed/proprietary AI systems, a ban on mass biometric data collection in public spaces, a moratorium on new facial recognition...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 2 months ago
Thank you for a successful inaugural conference where we discussed and debated the future of video surveillance! We will be back in 2022 with a far bigger conference! Watch the video to learn more: Format / Structure IPVM will start...
By IPVM Team - about 2 months ago
A research paper analyzing "Chinese ethnical groups" focused on "Korean, Tibetan, and Uyghur" ethnicities has been found by an Australian University to breach core ethical standards, with the University's Professor abruptly resigning, leaving to a...
By Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
Motorola sent a letter to customers "encouraging" them to "consult your legal advisor" over the legality of Avigilon Appearance Search. This comes as municipalities are ramping up legal restrictions against facial recognition and other video...
By Isabella Cheng and John Honovich - 3 months ago
Understand how video analytics work, what problems they have, and how to responsibly sell or deploy. This course is for anyone who currently or plans to manage, design, sell, or support video surveillance systems using video analytics. This is,...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
20+ Verkada employees and Sequoia Capital Partner Konstantine Buhler, a Verkada investor, faked customer reviews on Google. This 30-second video overviews: The Sequoia partner told IPVM that he made the review in his "personal capacity" rather...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
Hikvision marketed a Russian factory, so IPVM checked it on-site, finding no factory. Hikvision declined to comment to IPVM, deleting the marketing after we inquired. Inside this note, we examine what Hikvision claimed, what our on-site...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
New approaches to readers are uncommon, but startup Oloid's access reader is software-based, multifactor authentication, and reuses smartphones and tablets. Will the company disrupt access? Inside we examine: Software Reader Uses...
By Brian Rhodes - 3 months ago
15 US cities, 1 county, and 1 state, have not only banned government use of facial recognition, but are effectively boycotting the purchase of any product that includes facial recognition, with the City of Oakland, CA declaring that they are...
By Isabella Cheng - 4 months ago
Verkada is falsely and manipulatively alleging its facial recognition is "not facial recognition" and is "very different from facial recognition" as legal bans and ethical concerns rise against facial recognition. This became a public issue...
By Isabella Cheng and John Honovich - 4 months ago
Hikvision, Dahua, Huawei, ZTE, AnyVision, and NTechLabs are among more than a dozen industry companies named in a recent report by US-based NGO Access Now as having sold technology to Latin American governments “without sufficient transparency or...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 4 months ago
Most countries have no governmental codes for video surveillance. However, the UK has had one for almost a decade and it is about to be revised. Inside this note, we explain what the Code of Practice is, how it works, how it impacts...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
IronYun has released their newest analytics, Vaidio v5, claiming improved accuracy and increased performance since our 2020 test, now including cell phone and PPE detection as well as vehicle make/model recognition. We tested these new...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 4 months ago
A Michigan skating rink deployed a fever tablet with facial recognition that misidentified a Black teenager. The teenager's mother alleged racial profiling, while the skating rink owner told IPVM he purchased the unit based on a...
By Zach Segal - 4 months ago
Huawei video surveillance overseas is typically project-based but Huawei is now expanding into the Russian mass-market sales. This fits with Huawei's intentions to enter the “Top Three Global Position” in video surveillance. Inside this...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
