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…
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Many hands lift Nigerian digital ID effort, but some are actually making it harder
An uneasy balance is being struck in Nigeria in that nation’s progress toward universal digital identification for its 200 million…
Mayor of Nice calls for deployment of facial recognition following Stade de France clashes
The Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi called for the deployment of facial recognition technologies to prevent situations similar to the…
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…
Update to Quebec data privacy law specifies biometrics use notifications
A series of legal amendments made to Quebec’s privacy laws affecting businesses and the private sector touch on biometric technology…
Deutsche Telekom considers expanding use of Nuance voice biometrics after early success
The success of voice biometrics from Nuance for customer authentication has led Deutsche Telekom to consider expanding its use, according…
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…
Biometric data privacy allegations are getting intense. Just ask White Castle and Amazon
Two new proposed take-downs of the most prominent state-level biometric privacy law in the United States have been launched. The…
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