$20M for conversational-AI builder in warming market
If a voice-industry startup’s conversation tool works as well as it is being billed, the $20 million series A round…
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Amazon sees profit in your palmprint. Opponents see harmful surveillance capitalism
Days after privacy advocates asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to ban surveillance capitalism, particularly as practiced by Amazon, comes…
U.S. senators want a task force; deepfakers want it all
A pair of U.S. senators want the Homeland Security Department to see if a standard can be created to make…
DHS wants AI forces working more as a department-wide team
The U.S. government has published three strategic security goals for artificial intelligence and machine learning — both defending against them…
Mobile driver’s licenses and health IDs merging as part of a new digital wallet
In an interesting coincidence, a Chinese digital health pass is gaining broader mobile ID capabilities as a Utah mobile ID…
Would you really recognize that smile anywhere? This algorithm can, say biometrics researchers
Using teeth for identification to date has mostly been a grim matter for coroners and police detectives, but researchers in…
Could doctors be the key to trust in the biometrics machine?
A new Pew Charitable Trusts study into Americans’ thoughts about sharing their medical data holds a surprising clue in the…
Monitoring synthetic voices as they get realer
In the United States, at least, nothing interesting happens until it happens to a celebrity. Nothing important happens until it…
The biometric law of the jungle: It’s always open season on data-gazelles for data-lions
Is there a difference between what Clearview AI has done by scraping social media photos to be used for commercial gain…
Jail for biometric data privacy violations in Baltimore? More class actions settled for millions
There is nothing to say that the United States has to have a coherent set of standards for the use…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection