Image-modifying attacks can be foiled, making facial recognition more reliable — researchers
An AI training technique effective at thwarting adversarial attacks that could have fatal results in autonomous vehicles also makes it…
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One biometric data privacy case dismissed, two more pared back by judges
The ground under lawsuits alleging violations of Illinois’ landmark biometric privacy law shifted slightly this week after developments in three…
Ethically developing sets for face biometrics demands a community approach
In the physical world, events flow in one direction. A hiker is bitten by a snake, gets medical attention and…
India trials biometric boarding; new study evaluates facial recognition accuracy for Indian faces
Six Indian airports are trialing facial recognition technology for biometric boarding while Indian researchers have re-run large-scale tests that proved…
Amazon sees profit in your palmprint. Opponents see harmful surveillance capitalism
Days after privacy advocates asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to ban surveillance capitalism, particularly as practiced by Amazon, comes…
The biometric law of the jungle: It’s always open season on data-gazelles for data-lions
Is there a difference between what Clearview AI has done by scraping social media photos to be used for commercial gain…
See no evil: Bad AI strategy, especially when alternative plans exist
A U.S. federal watchdog agency has defined four principles that its researchers say can build accountability into the creation and…
South Asian group develops voice-based emotion recognition
Thai researchers say they have created an emotion-recognition dataset and models for speech biometrics. The data, which is free to…
Synthetic biometric data will solve AI’s ills (jk)
There is an aspect of AI that is simple and straightforward. It will take years of development and testing, regulatory…
AnyVision open letter calls on facial recognition providers to eliminate bias
Companies developing biometrics and artificial intelligence algorithms must rid their systems of demographic bias and make their methodology transparent, according…
