Biden goes broad and deep with order requiring MFA, zero-trust architecture
Promising strategic changes and investments, Pres. Joe Biden signed an executive order pushing federal agencies to implement significant cybersecurity initiatives,…
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Bias in facial recognition is handicapping deepfake detection
Harmful bias has been found in deepfake datasets and detection models by researchers from the University of Southern California. A…
Another hyper-focused biometric privacy law: NYC Council approves tenants’ data law
When the New York City Council last month agreed to regulate biometric and other tenant data, some celebrated while others…
Scattershot ID techniques in passports are not catching fraudsters
A new Secure Identity Alliance report on passport fraud calls out the fragility of travel documents, even biometric passports, as…
Privacy advocates, Spotify only see the bad in each other
People might have to accept that concert halls echo with the sounds of salesmen, but some want something different for…
Dark news from dark web: deepfakers are getting their act together
The second wave of concern about deepfakes is building. The next crest is being propelled by entrepreneurial zeal, according to…
Halt ordered in biometric scans for US work-visa spouses
U.S. immigration officials this month will suspend requiring the collection of face and fingerprint biometrics from the spouses of some…
Amnesty International logging every CCTV camera in NYC
An Amnesty International project known as Decoders is organizing a virtual inventory of CCTV and other public cameras in New…
The East plays a COVID shell game with biometric surveillance
Again, governments around the world are trivializing personal privacy as they build increasingly intrusive biometric surveillance networks. Officials in Hong…
The possibilities of biometric surveillance grow with unsettling questions, critics allege
Three recent articles, two journalistic and one research, have looked at questionable biometric surveillance tools and found reason to worry…
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