Quebec insurance portal re-launches facial recognition program to organize photo bank

Quebec’s provincial automobile insurance registry is bringing back its facial recognition program, which was suspended last year – this time, to tidy up its biometric image database.

An article in Le journal de Québec says the Société d’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) will use facial recognition technology to deduplicate and manage its citizen photo bank, despite the messy cessation of its previous attempt to incorporate face biometrics for identity verification into its system. That came as part of a …

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