Government action, facial biometrics and industry responsibility top identity news of the week
Numerous announcements were made this week of biometric deployments and implementations, for airports, retail security, and national digital ID programs….
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House unanimously passes deepfake bill; Senate version still in committee
The bipartisan House Identifying Outputs of Generative Adversarial Networks Act (IOGAN Act), which supports critical research to accelerate the development…
Deepfakes: Increasing fake news and identity theft in 2020
This is a guest post by Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic. Earlier this year, a video was published…
Senate deepfake bill introduced after House passes companion legislation
The bipartisan Senate version of legislation passed out of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in late September…
International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics – IWBF 2020
International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics – IWBF 2020 Will take place online April 29 – 30, 2020 The 2020…
Automotive biometrics and new facial recognition projects top most read identity news this week
Biometric facial recognition deployments for event security at the Olympics, law enforcement around the world, secure area access control and…
International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics seeks papers for conference presentation
The 2020 International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF 2020) has issued a call for research papers in the areas…
Pindrop report finds 90 voice fraud attacks occur every minute
Coinciding with the release Tuesday morning of deepfakes of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson endorsing opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn for…
Adobe probes tool that detects, reverses facial digital manipulation to fight deepfakes
Adobe, Twitter, and the New York Times have recently joined forces to draw attention to image manipulation and come up…
Jumio launches fully automated identity verification solution with FaceTec biometrics
Jumio has launched a new real-time, fully automated biometric identity verification technology designed to remove friction from the onboarding process…
