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This week, former Uber drivers in the U.K. claimed that the company fired them after claiming they subcontracted out their rides; the drivers refute that and claim that the facial biometrics the company uses is racially biased and flawed.

The Open Security & Safety Alliance (OSSA), an industry body comprised of stakeholders from all facets of the security, safety and building automation space, announced two important developments to help pave the road towards trustworthy and innovative security and safety solutions. First, a new specification is now available to members that focuses on camera cybersecurity measures. OSSA also introduces a new App Developer Council designed to attract and involve app developers in the Alliance’s ever-growing ecosystem of security and safety industry players.

A large apartment complex in Las Vegas is trialing a human-sized autonomous robot, to patrol the 1,129-unit property.

New data from Barracuda Networks reveals that hackers are taking advantage of the heightened focus on the COVID-19 vaccine and are increasingly using vaccine-related emails in targeted spear-phishing attacks.

A number of regional and local Red Cross agencies are holding a variety of virtual natural disaster preparedness classes in honor of Red Cross month in March.

Bangladesh has embarked on the necessary preparations to deepen local supply chain for ePassports in 2021. The production and personalization center for the new ePassports in the capital, Dhaka, was completed in 2020 and it contains a data center and is equipped with modern personalization machines.