This week there have been news articles about Outabox, an Australian company that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffering a security breach that has highlighted privacy concerns over facial recognition.

“Wired” reports that a website has emerged claiming to be set up by former Outabox developers called “Have I Been Outaboxed.” The website asked visitors to enter their name to check if their information is included in a database of Outabox data, which the site alleges had lax internal controls and was shared in an unsecured spreadsheet. It claimed to have more than 1 million records.

At Vigilate, our products are hosted on your servers, either in the cloud or onsite, which means we do not have access to your client data. The processing stays inside your systems which maintains your information security and compliance. It allows you to utilise existing investments in infrastructure spend, and further improves the speed and responsiveness of the solutions.

Vigilate deal exclusively with biometric data and has been built from the ground up with a strong code of ethics, that can be viewed on our website, which respects privacy and works for all races, ages, and genders.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/outabox-facial-recognition-breach/