A biometric data privacy win in court is followed by a related FTC investigation and lawsuit
Executives at facial recognition firm Clarifai may have sighed with relief in March 2021 when a judge agreed that they…
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Heavy-handed Russian government still can’t easily pull off a massive biometric program
Moscow’s campaign to get its finger in as many biometrics pies as possible is intensifying, if not exactly gaining momentum….
Voice biometrics and speech recognition expand amid countermeasures, bad news for Walmart
Voice biometrics, voice recognition and speech analysis are coming on leaps and bounds, heading to break through the $20 billion…
Consumer applications of face biometrics draw privacy lawsuits
A trend has emerged in biometric data privacy lawsuits, with services involving photos of people taken for reasons other than…
India’s Telangana minister talks public facial recognition trust on WEF panel
The development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence-based technologies such as facial recognition is spreading like wildfire across the world…
National digital ID card market bounces back after slow 2020
The global market for ‘smart’ or digital ID cards issued by governments has rebounded from the early impacts of the…
Decentralized digital identity takes the stage at European KuppingerCole event
A generalized IT trend towards decentralization is finding expression in digital identity, speakers explained during the European Identity and Cloud…
France pushes EU Council to formalize extension of police biometrics data-sharing network
The French presidency has prompted the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs Council to formally approve a new version of…
Similar arguments to have biometric data privacy suits thrown out made by Amazon, Microsoft
Amazon did not use the biometric data of Illinois residents contained in the Diversity in Faces dataset, or benefit from…
Clearview CEO laments ‘misrepresentation’ of facial recognition app in response to UK fine
Clearview AI has been fined approximately £7.5 million (US$9.5 million) by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breach of…
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