Fine words from AI vendors, but actions on ethics are scarce
Can altruism be profitable for the AI-industrial complex? Maybe, but the board meeting on that topic has been pushed to…
Articles By Jim Nash
Jim Nash is a business journalist. His byline has appeared in The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Robotics Business Review and other publications. You can find Jim on LinkedIn.
Digital ID insiders want to know: When will Congress do its job?
A theme developed during a committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol last week — digital identity as infrastructure, not something…
Oracle finds a biometric onboarding partner in Everest
The financial services unit of business software pioneer Oracle Corp. is working with another fintech to sell blockchain services to…
Some states reject facial recognition for police, but a groundswell may be building
The Security Industry Association, maybe with a premature sigh of relief, is reporting that measures calling for significant restrictions on…
$46M for an ICE biometric database is too rich for US Representatives
Democratic members of a powerful U.S. House committee voted Wednesday to more than halve President Joe Biden’s request for a…
Alexa: Jim, you slept like crap. Need a crate of Monster?
It is like Amazon is becoming a guardian angel, silently, invisibly, biometrically watching over its flock. The Federal Communications Commission…
The key to coherent biometrics laws? It might be found in people who’ve been wronged
The political left and right in the United States each now have their martyrs to indifferent and inaccurate facial recognition…
China fights COVID with ‘one database, code and platform,’ UAE goes with auras
Biometric COVID-19 fever apps are making news again, in two cities, and in very novel ways. Meanwhile, privacy advocates who…
Police in Israel want greater freedom to use facial recognition
Israeli politicians are considering limits on how police use face biometrics to surveil the Middle Eastern nation, including its borders…
Who’s the next U.S. funder to get tangled in Washington’s China sanctions
Before last week, those paying close attention to who was sanctioned by the U.S. government for involvement with China’s repression…
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