Governments, vendors less skittish about promoting facial recognition sales

News of Colombia's decision to buy facial recognition software from a Spanish company for its national police force lacks one point common in virtually all previous announcements by other nations.

There is no explicit mention of how the software, from Herta Security, will be used to find missing and exploited children.

That missing fig leaf, just like others still plucked by governments globally to make more palatable the growing blanket of live surveillance cameras in public spaces, shows how …

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