Amazon told to stay put in court; Microsoft might escape BIPA case
There is greater clarity today regarding a key provision of the state of Illinois’ biometric privacy law, landmark legislation in…
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Microsoft, Amazon granted summary judgement in biometric data privacy lawsuits
A Washington federal judge on Monday dismissed two putative class actions by Chicago residents Steven Vance and Tim Janecyk, accusing…
Mixing synthetic, real faces make biometric recognition pretty good
A team dominated by Microsoft scientists has published research indicating that anyone scraping the internet for faces with which to…
vAIsual launches Dataset Shop for legally clean face biometrics training data
vAIsual is commercializing its ethical training data for face biometrics algorithms with the launch of its Dataset Shop. Companies can…
New speech datasets, software target greater inclusion
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has unveiled the Speech Accessibility Project, an initiative to make voice biometrics and speech…
Private medical record photos spotted in biometrics training dataset
Medical record photos are private — but that may not stop them from showing up in datasets used to train…
Prominent facial recognition researcher scraped videos of trans people, left dataset exposed
New research finds that a controversial facial recognition dataset of trans people remained available online for years after the initial…
Datatang adds 5,000 Traditional Chinese characters to OCR system
Beijing-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Datatang has updated its optical character recognition (OCR) database to include 5,000 handwritten characters in…
Clearview patent on method for scaling biometric training dataset gets US notice of allowance
A patent for a method of biometric algorithm training filed by Clearview AI is on its way to being granted,…
Synthetic data getting serious for biometrics training
Synthetic data created by artificial intelligence systems, for AI systems is a growing market, as general adversarial networks (GANs) are…
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