Chinese lawmakers consider more facial recognition restrictions
The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang will submit a proposal to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) calling…
Articles By Katya Pivcevic
Katya Pivcevic wrote for Biometric Update from October, 2020 until November, 2021, while living in the UK.
Facebook self-supervised computer vision model promises object recognition breakthrough
Facebook has announced the development of a new computer vision model, named SEER (SElf-supERvised). SEER has been pre-trained on a…
ACM FAccT increases participant diversity to investigate AI social justice impacts
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will hold a virtual conference from March 3rd to 10th on the topics of…
The Bahamas may not issue biometric voter cards before general election next year
A government minister says the technological upgrades that would be necessary for The Bahamas to issue biometric voters’ cards, as…
Women in Identity plans industry Code of Conduct for 2021
Women in Identity (WiD) is planning to research the impact of exclusion from digital identity systems as part of its…
Facebook mulls face biometrics for forthcoming smart glasses
Facebook’s upcoming smart glasses are due to launch this year, and the company is assessing whether face biometrics could be…
Israel selects SuperCom biometric monitoring for quarantine compliance program
SuperCom will aid the Israeli Ministry of Health in an immediate pilot of biometric monitoring for COVID-19 citizen quarantine compliance…
Ideal Innovations begins online facial identification forensic proficiency testing
Ideal Innovations (I3) has begun offering the first approved ANAB accredited Facial Identification Proficiency Test for biometric forensic examiners online…
LoginRadius extends native mobile device biometrics to app authentication
Cloud-based consumer identity solutions provider LoginRadius says it has found a way to make authentication to mobile apps with native…
Patent filings suggest dual biometrics from Apple, mask-agnostic facial recognition from GBT
Apple and startup GBT Technologies have each filed for patents on biometric capabilities for mobile devices. Apple files to extend…
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