Consumers blind about their data — and want Uncle Sam and businesses blind too
A survey conducted in several of the major Western technology economies illustrates how consumers have abdicated control over their data…
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.
Minimalist’s dream or nightmare? Researchers apply ‘deepfake’ to sketching
Chinese and Hong Kongese researchers have developed software they call DeepFaceDrawing, and the name is a good description of what…
New 3D face scanning captures the details but misses with the whole face
A team of British researchers say they have written what they say is the first algorithm capable of reconstructing photorealistic…
Face biometrics force a deeper recognition Down Under
A white paper from Australia’s Monash University about the increasing use of biometric facial recognition cuts directly to an anti-privacy…
U.S. DNA firm Thermo Fisher reportedly still helping China tamp unrest, crime
Researchers in Australia allege that biometric technology from a U.S. firm is still being used in China to indiscriminately catalog…
One step forward — right back to square one for Australian cops’ mobile biometric system
It is another reminder, this time from a biometrics system Down Under, that while technology can underperform, it cannot over-promise….
An old carny trick goes high tech — AI guesses ages better than we can
A facial recognition algorithm written by German researchers is pretty good at guessing both the age and ethnicity of faces…
Digital ID talk in Europe can’t get past centralization question
A roundtable discussion this week sponsored by the European Parliament about digital identities only deviated from boilerplate sentiment about the…
USC experimental biometric suites go deep and broad to thwart fraudsters
Biometrics researchers at the University of Southern California boast 100 percent success at spotting attempts to cheat a facial recognition…
Some surprising questions, fewer insights after Deepfake Detection Challenge
Few if any unique or actionable insights have resulted from a lengthy contest created by Facebook to defang deepfake content,…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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