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Google Biometrics News
Iris ID talks steady biometric iris recognition partnership with Google data centers
This has been a fruitful year for biometric iris recognition developer Iris ID Systems. Not only has the company been…
| Aug 31, 2020 | AI regrets, Google has had a few … so it’s selling that experience to developersGoogle executives reportedly have agreed to begin selling the company’s insights into developing AI products. Is there no more revenue… |
| Aug 20, 2020 | Android biometric autofill for Google password manager goes live, Bitwarden adds desktop biometricsGoogle’s password manager built into Android can now use biometric authentication to secure its autofill function, 9to5Google reports. The feature… |
| Aug 18, 2020 | Google testing biometric fingerprint payments for desktopAfter adding biometric credit card authentication and touch-to-fill support for Android, Google is currently testing biometric fingerprint payment features for… |
| Jul 23, 2020 | New biometric wearables may be coming from Apple and Alphabet, researchers work on health monitoringA new line of earphones will be produced by Apple with biometric heart rate monitoring next year, according to a… |
| Jul 15, 2020 | Facial biometrics training dataset leads to BIPA lawsuits against Amazon, Alphabet and MicrosoftDespite being conceived of as a way to make biometric facial recognition more equitable, IBM’s Diversity in Faces is continuing… |
| Jul 7, 2020 | Google’s TensorFlow gets a new test for training data leaksGoogle late last month debuted experimental tests for its TensorFlow Privacy library designed to reduce the degree to which machine… |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Google seeks dismissal of face biometric privacy suits and accuses firms of ‘forumshopping’Google has alleged in court filings that two law firms have brought duplicate cases against the company under Illinois’ Biometric… |
| Jun 17, 2020 | Google argues for biometric privacy suit dismissal based on photo and interstate commerce exemptionsGoogle is planning to show that Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) does not apply to data taken from photographs,… |
| May 27, 2020 | Google testing biometric voice payments via AssistantGoogle has confirmed it is testing a new Assistant feature that authorizes transactions through Voice Match biometrics, writes Android Police…. |
| May 26, 2020 | Payments with Windows Hello face and fingerprint biometrics added to Google ChromeGoogle Chrome has added support for biometric payment authentication for Windows 10 users with facial or fingerprint recognition through Windows… |
| May 14, 2020 | Google data privacy suit alleging violations from voice AI training partially dismissedA data privacy lawsuit against Google over the speech recognition processes used by its voice assistant services has been partially… |
| Apr 21, 2020 | Google working on biometric smart debit card for Google PayGoogle is working on proprietary physical and virtual debit cards linked to a bank account and connected to an app… |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Pixel 4 update adds eyes open requirement setting for biometric face unlockThe April update for Pixel 4 has made it mandatory for the user’s eyes to be open during the biometric… |
| Apr 6, 2020 | Google sued for allegedly violating children’s biometric privacy with classroom toolsA lawsuit has been brought against Google by a pair of children from Illinois alleging the tech giant collected biometric… |
| Mar 9, 2020 | Pixel 4 displays nonfunctional ‘require eye to be open’ facial recognition settingIntroduced in October 2019, Google’s Pixel 4 included a vulnerability in the biometric Face Unlock feature which did not check… |
| Mar 2, 2020 | Tech giants pressured to follow Google in removing gender labels from computer vision servicesGoogle’s move to eliminate gender labels from its artificial intelligence-powered computer vision services has put pressure on Microsoft, Amazon, and… |
| Feb 21, 2020 | Google responds to limitations of gender labels in facial analysis by removing them to avoid biasGoogle has removed gender labels from its Cloud Vision API to avoid bias or misclassification of people with its facial… |
| Feb 21, 2020 | Google, Apple announce biometric security upgrades for operating systemsPlenty of exciting security upgrades are expected this year for both Android and iOS. As Google is introducing upgraded biometrics… |
| Feb 10, 2020 | Google hit with new biometric data privacy class action under BIPAOn the heels of a proposed $550 million settlement that Facebook recently agreed to settle lawsuits under the controversial Illinois… |
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 |
