Biometrics community recognizes need for better messaging on ethical facial recognition use
Less than one in four biometrics community stakeholders say that enough is being done by the industry to influence the…
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Biometrics for development: a conversation around ethics and privacy
Biometrics for development: a conversation around ethics & privacy Online November 24, 2020, 15-16:30 GMT Biometrics are increasingly commonplace in…
EU Data Protection Supervisor backs moratorium on biometrics deployments
The growth in popularity of biometrics has been accompanied by widespread misconceptions, according to European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech…
Research ethics in machine vision need some attention
The AI community talks big about ethics, but skeptics are interested in its walk. For machine vision researchers, at least,…
Biometrics Institute declares three laws for the responsible use of biometrics
The three laws of biometrics are policy comes first, process follows policy, and technology is guided by policy and process,…
National ambitions = dodgy AI policy and deployment?
An annual report by a consulting firm to world governments uncovers an interesting pattern when it comes to the responsible…
Biometrics Institute US Online Conference 2020 delves into industry challenges from innovation to ethics
Biometrics experts from NIST, the FBI, the United Nations, industry and academic leaders and privacy advocates are gathering online this…
Red Cross sees benefits and risk in biometrics use for humanitarian operations
Biometrics use in humanitarian contexts should always be accompanied by data protection impact assessments and other safeguards, The International Committee…
IBM calls for export controls on some facial biometrics technologies to prevent human rights abuses
Biometric facial recognition exports from the U.S. should be subject to new controls, IBM argues, to avoid putting the powerful…
Women in Identity, Biometrics Institute, and NIST each to host online events on facial recognition
Three upcoming biometrics events have been announced involving National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) experts on facial recognition. Women…
