South African institute warns against biometrics outstripping laws as SIA launches ethical principles
The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria, South Africa writes that in their rush to deploy facial recognition and…
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Facial recognition needs auditing and ethics standards to be safe, AI Now bias critic argues
The artificial intelligence community needs to begin developing the vocabulary to define and clearly explain the harms the technology can…
Scandalous commercial AI decisions might be minimized with basic detective work
With AI algorithms making more and bigger decisions without human guidance, the possibility for scandalous machine actions joining human misconduct…
Bias, blind spots and bad identity systems
This is a guest post by Emma Lindley, Co-Founder of Women in Identity and Chief Commercial Officer at Trust Stamp….
MIT AI training dataset pulled down for racist, sexist, vulgar labels as industry grapples with bias
A database used in training systems for tasks like facial biometrics and object recognition has been taken down by the…
Biometrics researchers recognized for computer science innovation and bias work
Renowned biometrics expert Anil K. Jain, Michigan State Researcher and Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, tops the 2020 global…
Scientists, sociologists speak out against biometrics research that allegedly predicts criminals
Back in May, a group of professors and a Ph.D. student from Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania claimed to have developed…
Biometrics Institute U.S. Online Conference
Biometrics Institute US Online Conference Virtual Event September 21 – 22, 2020 With this everchanging world, we’re facing the same,…
U.S. DNA firm Thermo Fisher reportedly still helping China tamp unrest, crime
Researchers in Australia allege that biometric technology from a U.S. firm is still being used in China to indiscriminately catalog…
How biometric transparency and regulation could secure privacy, prevent exclusion in digital identity
Do we need more standards in biometrics? Is IBM making the right move by withdrawing its facial recognition technology from…
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