Federal US bill to ban law enforcement face biometrics ‘coming soon’
A U.S. senator says he will soon be reintroducing the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium act, as the Electronic…
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AnyVision open letter calls on facial recognition providers to eliminate bias
Companies developing biometrics and artificial intelligence algorithms must rid their systems of demographic bias and make their methodology transparent, according…
What, me worry? Businesses missing the importance of ethics in AI development
Almost everyone involved in AI research at least pays lip service to the critical need for ethical and responsible programming….
NtechLab scores highest biometric matching accuracy rates in three NIST test categories
NtechLab is trumpeting its success in the recent Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) from the U.S. National Institute of Standards…
NIST kicks off public discussion about creating trust in AI
A U.S. federal agency is going back to basics to address AI’s fundamental weakness: It is distrusted by most of…
BBC addresses facial recognition bias issues in new Click episode
A new episode of BBC Click recently discussed the issues caused by facial recognition biases, and how they affect people…
Yoti updated transparency report on biometric age verification shows further accuracy gains
Yoti has improved the accuracy of its biometrics-based age estimation algorithm for the important 13 to 15 year age group,…
Innovatrics update improves biometric matching accuracy for children’s fingerprints
Innovatrics has announced the availability of a new algorithm aimed at closing the accuracy gap in fingerprint biometric matching between…
Automotive biometrics market sizzles but faces familiar demographic disparity challenge
Electric and autonomous vehicles continue to be growth areas for biometrics, as a startup’s market entry and two new implementations…
Industry still asking, does AI have gaydar? Should it?
Opposition is growing in the EU to facial recognition algorithms billed as being able to accurately assign genders and sexual…
