Emotion and accent voice recognition capabilities patented by Amazon concern privacy experts
A recent patent issued to Amazon which would allow Alexa to recognize a range of user characteristics, including accent and…
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Parts of audit on cancelled Australian NEC biometrics contract could be redacted
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) has warned the country’s attorney general that it may apply to have parts of…
Autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition raises $40 million in Series A funding
AI machine vision retail payments startup Standard Cognition[https://standard.ai/] has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round, and plans…
Hikvision facing potential disruption from U.S. component ban
The U.S. government is considering extending a ban on its agencies buying facial recognition and smart camera products from Chinese…
Many biometric class action lawsuits could depend on Illinois Supreme Court harm ruling
There are approximately 100 class actions alleging violations under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) that could be significantly affected…
Researchers develop neural network training method to generate effective fingerprint fakes
A team of American academic researchers has developed a neural network to generate artificial fingerprints which can produce false matches…
“Smile-to-Pay” facial recognition system now at 300 locations in China
Yum China has announced that it has extended its “Smile-to-Pay” facial recognition payment system to more than 300 KFC locations…
Nok Nok adds strong account recovery to S3 Suite with Jumio partnership
Nok Nok Labs has integrated multiple ID proofing methods for account recovery in the newest version of its S3 Authentication…
BIO-key secures $10 million in orders for biometric authentication platform
BIO-key has secured orders from two customers for its biometric authentication platform worth more than $10 million combined, according to…
UIDAI tells court Aadhaar biometric matching not set up for identifying unknown people
Aadhaar fingerprint biometrics cannot be used to identify deceased individuals because the system is designed to authenticate identities on a…
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