Feds see southwest border as biometric-rich proving ground. So do opponents
The United States’ border with Mexico could be the first real battlefield over the federal government’s comprehensive use of biometric…
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Surveillance drones sought by UK police, threatened with sanctions in US
New sanctions could be imposed on DJI Technology, a Chinese maker of drones capable of biometric surveillance, by the American…
Making deepfakes cute: Adobe shows a bit of its muscle
Deepfakes as an ordinary part of an average person’s life has gotten that much closer with a prototype algorithm from…
Updates for financial biometric operations announced in U.S. and Bangladesh
Financial regulators in the United States and in South Asia this week committed to greater protection for the biometric identifiers…
Red or blue, US communities want brakes on government use of facial recognition
The movement to corral facial recognition with local and state laws continues, and it is showing up in red, law-and-order…
TikTok tells senators others collect more data. But is it that kind of numbers game?
An executive with the video social media platform TikTok refused to be cornered by U.S. senators on questions about biometric…
Facebook wants to turbo-charge smart glasses. Researcher wonders if it can do it right
A computer security and privacy researcher who also is an investor in augmented reality took a look at Facebook’s latest…
Indian state deploys biometric wearable to track government workers in real time
As if inviting people to revolt against biometric devices in the workplace, an Indian state reportedly will fit smart watches…
New funding for one computer vision firm, features for another
Two computer vision startups, one taking venture capital and another crowdsourcing funding for its growth, are leaning on COVID restrictions…
More bad news for Mexico’s proposed nationwide biometrics collection scheme
Mexico’s proposed mobile phone registry, which would collect biometric identifiers from all phone-account owners in the nation, this week was…
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