Google argues for biometric privacy suit dismissal based on photo and interstate commerce exemptions
Google is planning to show that Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) does not apply to data taken from photographs,…
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Germany bans passport photo morphing to prevent biometric spoofs at border checks
The German government is banning passport photo morphing, which can be used to assign multiple identities to a single passport…
Clearview AI agrees to delete facial images from biometric service, Canada excluded
Biometric facial recognition company Clearview AI has allegedly agreed to delete some of its data through an opt-out system, but…
Another facial recognition firm sees money in biometric mining
Executives at a Polish facial recognition service firm, PimEyes, say their software can look at an uploaded image and locate…
AI researchers say personality judgments can be made based on photographs
Scientists from two Moscow universities, the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), and the Open University for the…
Researchers use Instagram mask selfies to improve biometric facial recognition algorithms
Some facial biometrics developers fear the COVID-19 pandemic will affect their business, as the number of people wearing masks has…
Innovatrics adds passive liveness check to biometric digital onboarding
Innovatrics has added passive liveness check to its biometric digital onboarding offering, the company announced. “Our main aim was to…
Facial biometrics loophole highlighted by World Privacy Forum report on U.S. schools
One of the top biometrics news stories of the young 2020 calendar year pops up in the middle of the…
Seeing is identifying — new border protection systems train how to spot impostors
Looking is not always seeing, and the difference between the two can be problematic for U.S. Customs and Border Protection…
New face-cloaking tool 100 percent effective against Amazon, Microsoft, Face++ in testing
Researchers say they have found sand to throw in the gears of unauthorized deep-learning models that harvest facial images online….
