UK agency opens final round of challenge to solve biometric data privacy puzzles
The UK government has opened a final competition for grant money to be used on biometric and other digital information…
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.
Here come the health passports. If only they were standardized
Biometric COVID-19 passport apps are popping up as governments starved of travel-dependent revenue realize they cannot afford to wait for…
Facial recognition is not needed (yet) for virtual civil trials
One of the most tech-resistant sectors of U.S. society, the civil courts, is holding the line on digital innovation. Offered…
Money isn’t enough for the US lead in AI. Win popular support with transparency — council
Start thinking about public support for biometrics and AI the same way you think of funding for strategic research. That…
Dear President Biden: Here’s a win for you, public safety and civil rights
Having issued its gout of executive orders rescinding many of his predecessor’s executive orders, the Biden administration could use a…
New digital ID efforts in DC fumble the most critical issue
It is a new year with a new administration in Washington D.C. but the federal government’s approach to digital identification…
CBP built out more face biometrics capabilities during COVID doldrums of 2020
At least 23 million international and U.S. travelers found themselves in the Customs and Border Protection agency’s facial recognition system…
Short Amazon’s facial recognition ban. Go long on selling Rekognition to cops again
In a spacious corner office at Amazon sits a man at a desk with a finger over a button. When…
States emboldened to move on biometrics privacy legislation
Given the anti-establishment and anti-police sentiment curdling political discourse at both ends of the spectrum right now, it is unsurprising…
The internet’s small-mindedness makes AI brutish as well
If bias cannot be wrung from the process of training biometrics and other AI algorithms, maybe unsupervised algorithms can learn…
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