Face recognition compares a face to a database to say who it is. It enables access control and search but is biometric data under GDPR and faces strict limits, including near-bans on certain public uses, in the EU AI Act — so deployment is a legal decision as much as a technical one.
The book · Volume 7 of 7
AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Real-Time Pipelines and Agents to Serving, Cost, Compliance, and Verticals
Face recognition is as much a legal decision as a technical one, because identity matching counts as biometric processing. This volume covers face recognition in production: EU AI Act biometric prohibitions, regulatory engineering, serving infrastructure, and vertical playbooks for access control and security. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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