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Google Biometrics News
Google Pixel 4 to feature 3D facial biometrics for unlocking, payment and apps
The forthcoming flagship smartphone from Google, the Pixel 4, will feature 3D biometric facial recognition unlocking, the company has announced….
| Jul 23, 2019 | Google street teams likely collecting facial recognition data for unlocking new Pixel 4Google representatives have been collecting facial biometric data from people in various cities, offering them $5 gift cards in return… |
| Jul 12, 2019 | Google responds to leak of audio data from AI assistant reviewerA language reviewer under contract to Google to analyze samples of voice data collected by its Google Assistant software has… |
| Jun 13, 2019 | Google building impaired speech dataset for speech recognition inclusivityGoogle has partnered with the ALS Therapy Development Institute and the ALS Residence Initiative (ALSRI) to gather voice samples from… |
| May 13, 2019 | Fingerprint Cards biometric technology deployed in nine new smartphone modelsFingerprint Cards sensor technology continues to be deployed in new smartphone models. The Swedish biometrics company has revealed that an… |
| May 8, 2019 | Google announces edge face and voice biometrics at I/O ConferenceGoogle has launched a new smart home hub with biometric facial recognition processed at the edge, and reduced its voice… |
| Apr 5, 2019 | Google cancels AI ethics council plans following controversyGoogle has given up on the AI ethics advisory group it announced just over a week ago, after public controversy… |
| Apr 1, 2019 | Tech giants and civil society seek to institutionalize AI ethicsAs artificial intelligence becomes more controversial, tech giants are putting together councils and review processes to ensure ethical uses of… |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Google develops on-device real-time speech recognition with new neural network techniqueGoogle is rolling out an end-to-end on-device speech recognition technology entirely driven by neural networks for speech input in its… |
| Mar 5, 2019 | Google to argue online photo service is not subject to Illinois biometric privacy lawThe use of facial recognition on photos of people, rather than the people themselves, is not covered by the Illinois… |
| Feb 6, 2019 | Dismissed biometric privacy suit against Google appealed and filed in state courtA recently-dismissed lawsuit filed against Google under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been given new life by the… |
| Feb 4, 2019 | White paper lays out Google position on government involvement in AIGoogle has laid out its position on government regulation of artificial intelligence in a white paper, suggesting a limited approach… |
| Jan 19, 2019 | Google Brain researcher discusses AI translator projectGoogle Brain research scientists have developed a tool for increasing the transparency of machine learning models, according to a Quanta… |
| Jan 16, 2019 | Large coalition of groups calls on tech giants to commit to no facial biometrics for governmentA coalition of more than 85 advocacy groups has written Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to ask them not to provide… |
| Jan 2, 2019 | Google biometric privacy suit dismissed for lack of injuryA lawsuit against Google under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been dismissed for failing to meet the “concrete… |
| Dec 14, 2018 | Google Cloud pauses facial recognition offering to work out responsible use challengesGoogle appears to have come down closer to Microsoft than Amazon, as the cloud giants pick positions on the readiness… |
| Nov 1, 2018 | Google adds enhanced facial analysis capabilities to developer platformDeveloping Android apps with facial detection may soon be easier, as Google is launching a new feature called Face Contours… |
| Sep 13, 2018 | Google introduces machine learning analysis tool to combat AI biasGoogle has unveiled a bias-detection feature for its TensorFlow machine learning web application, dubbed the What-If Tool, in a blog… |
| Sep 4, 2018 | Fingerprint authentication likely coming to Chrome OS and new ChromebooksA code commit indicates the Chrome operating system is adding native support for fingerprint biometrics, and that fingerprint sensors are… |
| Aug 30, 2018 | Google may bring face biometric unlock to Chrome OSGoogle appears to be adding support for facial recognition unlocking to its Chrome OS, as a reference to the feature… |
Google Industry Insights
Google’s BIPA extraterritoriality dismissal provides key lessons
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney Utilizing a successful extraterritoriality challenge, Google was recently able to…
| Biometrics will Challenge the Security and Privacy of Social Networking |
