US lawmakers question biometrics firm over business practices and work with foreign governments
The admission by Olympic-caliber web scraper Clearview AI last week that its account information had been stolen has prompted nettled…
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Strategic framework for the ethical use of face biometrics proposed
The World Economic Forum has published its Framework for Responsible Limits on Facial Recognition, a white paper that the organization…
Seeing is identifying — new border protection systems train how to spot impostors
Looking is not always seeing, and the difference between the two can be problematic for U.S. Customs and Border Protection…
The Vatican and Big Tech, Pentagon release overlapping AI commandments
It is hard to know what it means when a global religious figure, two iconic technology giants and the Pentagon…
DOJ asks: How should biometrics be added to Con Air?
The U.S. Department of Justice is considering the addition of biometric verification to two mobile apps used by the government…
Lawmakers need schooling on face recognition, say subject-matter experts
Governments around the world do not understand how biometric facial recognition works, and that is leading to ill-informed or needlessly…
Facial recognition researchers look for a culprit in gender inequality, come up empty
A group of researchers has looked at possible reasons that biometric facial recognition accuracy is different for men and women,…
New face-cloaking tool 100 percent effective against Amazon, Microsoft, Face++ in testing
Researchers say they have found sand to throw in the gears of unauthorized deep-learning models that harvest facial images online….
NIST takes on privacy in economy increasingly focused with monetizing all personal data
The federal agency in January issued what it said is the first version of a privacy framework in the hopes…
Qualcomm helps German startup sell its skin-sensing liveness sensor
Biometric liveness testing reportedly is taking a big step forward in a Qualcomm accelerator program with a new algorithm that…
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