Protecting privacy, preventing bias in facial recognition essential, RAND study says
How society can benefit from and use biometric facial recognition while still protecting privacy is one of the two central…
Articles By Anthony Kimery
Anthony Kimery is the former Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Homeland Security Today. He managed the magazine, daily online news operations and wrote the award-winning "Kimery Report," which covered a broad spectrum of HS-related issues, from public health preparedness to intelligence collection. He has 30-plus years of broad institutional knowledge and expertise in homeland/national security matters and issues as an editor, analyst, and consultant. He also serves as Advisory Board Member of Mississippi College’s Center for Counterterrorism Studies.
London Metropolitan Police now considering pausing facial recognition expansion
Following several months of growing concerns among privacy rights advocates and an independent report commissioned by London’s Metropolitan Police that…
CRS asks, who is ‘watching the watchers’ in analysis of proposed privacy protection bills
In recent months, members of Congress have introduced four consumer privacy bills and circulated discussion drafts of two additional proposals,…
DHS’s biometric advanced recognition technology system begins road to the cloud
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology System (HART), which is replacing DHS’s legacy Automated Biometric Identification…
Biometric access by unauthorized personnel found at DOD medical treatment facilities
Department of Defense (DoD) medical treatment facilities (MTFs) have deployed a variety of physical security controls, including biometric access. Still,…
DEA reopens 2010 rule on e-prescriptions for controlled substances to update biometric requirements
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published an interim final rule (IFR) in the Federal Register on March 31, 2010, which…
Idemia granted patents for document fraud detection and image enhancement
Two U.S. patents with potential identity and biometrics implications, one issued April 21 for a “Method For Determining A Point…
‘Pandemic drone’ tests to monitor for Covid-19 infections ends quickly due to privacy concerns
Testing by Westport, Connecticut of a drone to collect biometric readings has been abruptly canceled due to outrage over perceived…
Lovo launches AI ‘voice-over’ platform that creates realistic human voices
Lovo, Inc., an AI voice-over platform developed by a team of AI and machine experts from the Univerity of California-Berkeley,…
Digital banking popularity in U.S. grows amid pandemic, but digital ID is a barrier
Digital banking has surged in popularity during the pandemic, especially as some users of digital banks reportedly have been among…
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