UK Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group updates principles to emphasize rights and non-discrimination
The UK government’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG) has updated the ethical principles it released in 2018 to include…
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Hoping for better laws, a facial recognition primer for Congress is published
Assuming that informed electors make the best decisions, a major R&D nonprofit has published a crash course on face biometrics,…
Face biometrics roll out for retail, airports and edge as players work to refine the technology
Facial recognition is the common theme of the week’s top digital identity news with retail applications, new edge servers, and…
Researchers describe profound complexity of biometrics ethics puzzle
No one knowledgeable expected it would be easy to take the bias out of AI, but it is common even…
Huawei accused of using ethnicity-based biometrics to develop alert for Chinese authorities
In a development that might finally get U.S. biometrics firms to walk the corporate-responsibility talk when it comes to how…
Collaborative, less adversarial regulation can boost face biometrics: World Economic Forum
Regulating facial recognition might be the one idea that the World Economic Forum can suggest and offend none of its…
AI cannot help humanity if it cannot help an individual: UK report
Whatever the ultimate impact may be of a report by UK experts in algorithmic bias, the document already has succeeded…
Gartner to biometrics firms: Do better with facial recognition. Somehow
The facial recognition community continues to speak in circles when ethics is the topic. Notable business-to-business tech analyst Gartner is…
UN says nations need to ensure biometrics firms aren’t part of rights abuses
A UN committee on fighting racial discrimination has published a report detailing the role that facial recognition companies should play…
Report says lack of diversity in face biometrics datasets extends to expression, emotion
A pair of new studies on algorithmic bias in face biometrics both suggest that the lack of diversity in datasets…
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