Research volunteers throw humans under the facial recognition bus
Which is inherently more trustworthy – facial recognition performed by biometric AI or people? According to a new government study,…
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TechUK is fed up with the British government’s plodding digital ID efforts
A large and diverse association of UK technology companies is fed up with their government when it comes to the…
Data exposure spotlights ongoing questions about web scrapers and face biometrics
Sections of the web-scraping industry closely resemble the sketchier corners of the search engine optimization community with a couple big…
Hikvision biometric surveillance equipment gets deeper into the Baltics
Hikvision, the partially Chinese state-owned maker of video surveillance and biometric facial recognition systems, bought a Baltic-region wholesaler of surveillance…
Get past scary privacy stats to focus on strong data supply chains
At this point in digital time, companies are either converts to data ethics or they are betting they will get…
E-voting: Tricky tech and trickier politics
Those who say digital IDs and biometrics can restore Americans’ faith in voting increasingly sound like kids trying to convince…
AI feels your frustration trying to be understood behind a mask. Literally
As almost everybody knows at this point in the pandemic, masks fuzz voices in noticeable and infuriating ways. Now, it…
Will consumers always trade privacy for perks? Researchers say no
New research indicates that privacy might not be the quasi-legal tender that data brokers would have society believe it is….
U.S. district court gets Clearview AI’s attention; biometrics firm decries latest legal setback
The fight over biometric face-scraping and -selling is building like a professional wrestling story line, and, at least to some,…
Plans for digital IDs need to focus on what isn’t yet known
A proposed five-point plan for making digital identities — and anticipated follow-on societal benefits — succeeds where so many similar…
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