US moves ahead with long-distance biometric ID seemingly without competition
The world’s most public military program to develop whole-body biometric surveillance at a distance outdoors continues. U.S. military, national security…
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Researcher demonstrates biometric data theft from smart lock with droplock hack
Biometric smart locks used in internet of things deployments can be hacked through their wireless connectivity capabilities, according to a…
Def Con contest pits hackers against facial recognition systems
A new contest was announced at the hacker convention Def Con in Las Vegas, pitting teams against each other as…
US loses appetite for university research but not China
In a report that should surprise no one, China is funding sensitive research – including biometric surveillance tools — in…
Gait recognition could be better than face biometrics to ID coboting workers
Citing the need for a workplace robot to know the humans working around it, researchers writing in the journal Scientific…
American researchers probe where biometric bias comes in and how to measure it
A pair of papers on why biometric systems are so often found to be less effective with some demographic groups…
Digital identity verification spending to pass $20B by 2027, but security challenges remain
Businesses around the world are spending $11.6 billion on digital identity verification this year, and that amount will nearly double…
Some people really do have doppelgangers and that could be a biometric problem
If everyone really does have an unrelated twin somewhere on the planet, that is bad news for facial recognition-based security…
Deep-learning advance improves facial recognition for people wearing veils
A team of researchers spanning Asia, Europe and U.S. universities say they used a convolutional neural network to extract characteristics…
Dividing face images makes for better biometric presentation attack detection
Seeing the big picture is useful in completing some tasks, but it introduces extraneous details that can confuse matters on…
