U.S. Army patents zero-light 3D face biometric technology
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has patented a way to create detailed, simulated 3D images even in pitch darkness. The…
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EFF says First Amendment can’t save Clearview AI biometric faceprinting
Arguments can be made for protecting faceprinting under the First Amendment, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation says biometric face-scraping vendor…
Round 2 in California’s fight against data privacy confusion has not gone well
California’s successful Proposition 24, bolstering that state’s first-in-the-nation data privacy law, could be another trailblazing policy from the Golden State….
Fitness-tracker biometrics predict COVID-19 better than temps
Temperature checks, increasingly disparaged as COVID theater, can be outperformed as an illness indicator by fitness-tracker biometrics and self-reported symptoms,…
Computer vision modelers take too much for granted. Data sets hold bias surprises
A pair of U.S. researchers say unsupervised computer vision models used in biometrics and other applications can learn nasty social…
COVID mission creep could look a lot like anti-terror surveillance expansion — report
A stiff-armed warning about COVID-19 tracing programs and apps from a U.S. political think tank will likely bolster isolationist, anti-government…
Can you see what I hear? New ear biometrics technique has a high accuracy rate
There are 11 named features of the typical human ear. Every one of them is visible when most people wear…
Data breach stirs new university protests about proctoring apps
A recent intrusion into a proctoring app may not have resulted in the exposure of students’ biometric data, but it…
Most older consumers want biometrics for bank account protection — report
A new cybercrime report sponsored by AARP find that those 55 years old and older are adopting more secure data…
Research ethics in machine vision need some attention
The AI community talks big about ethics, but skeptics are interested in its walk. For machine vision researchers, at least,…
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