More real money for synthetic biometric data
Add $50 million to the venture funding raised by Datagen, which specializes in simulating humans for use in training AI…
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Another nation considers requiring biometrics for SIM cards
Another nation is considering adding biometrics to phone SIM card registrations, hoping to stem fraud. South Africa’s telecom regulator is…
Massachusetts panel says use of facial recognition should be restricted to state police
A divided commonwealth commission in Massachusetts has recommended that law enforcement agencies confine the use of facial recognition systems to…
Adding voice to facial recognition can help in finding important details in child abuse videos
Australian researchers say it is possible to add another biometric to improve results in the depressingly monumental task of enforcing…
Facial recognition guidelines are good. A new UK guide is not, say privacy advocates
An influential police association in the United Kingdom has published voluntary guidelines for using live facial recognition — something privacy…
The case for the marketing department as a full partner in biometric data privacy
How critical is a company’s marketing department to developing and safeguarding biometric data? This is not a survey, but chances…
Arkansas suit shows why trust can’t be assumed in biometrics matters
The operator and owners of a former hospital in Arkansas are going to court because they allegedly abandoned their patients’…
Panel says QR codes and public key list make health passes strong
Some national health and vaccine certificates are almost comically outdated and open to fraud, according to participants in a discussion…
A promising defense against face biometrics scraping comes up short
Scratch data poisoning off the list of possible tactics to fend off horizon-to-horizon biometric photo-scraping algorithms. A public-private team of…
Clearview wants U.S. judge to rethink her decision not to dismiss BIPA counts
Clearview AI executives are exploring increasingly niche arguments in hopes of keeping their photo-scraping business model alive. The facial recognition…
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