Canada border agency investigating possible bias of biometric airport kiosks
Automated biometric primary inspection kiosks (PIKs) at Canadian airports may have higher error rates when processing people from certain ethnic…
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Remark algorithm takes top 20 spot in NIST biometric facial verification test
Remark Holdings has landed inside the top 20 on the NIST Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 1:1 Verification overall leaderboard,…
Bill introduced in U.S. Congress to regulate machine learning algorithms
U.S. congressional democrats have introduced a bill in both houses to force large companies to audit machine learning algorithms, such…
Chief Bias Officer position may be necessary to combat algorithmic bias
While many companies continue to debate how to shape their executive teams in response to increasing digitization, and whether they…
U.S. House subcommittee to discuss diversity and bias in tech industry
Diversity in the tech industry – or the relative lack of it – is being discussed in a hearing by…
Researcher says facial recognition models perpetuate discrimination against trans people
Facial recognition research papers follow a model of gender which is binary more than 90 percent of the time, immutable…
IBM launches public data set to further research into diversity and facial biometrics
IBM has announced the launch of a new data set specifically created to further research into, and ultimately the development…
New Rank One Embedded algorithm triples speed with smaller footprint
Rank One Computing has released an accelerated version of its standard ROC SDK algorithm called ROC Embedded for mobile devices…
Facebook and Technical University of Munich launch Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence
Facebook has announced the creation of an independent Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence in partnership with the Technical University…
ACM to host conference on algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will host a conference on fairness, accountability and transparency in algorithmic systems from January…
