UK’s first vote with photo ID requirement in the books; people turned away
Products in search of a problem are nothing new, but biometric identification employed to eliminate voter fraud in developed economies…
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Datasets driving facial recognition development fueled by data privacy violations
The shift from manual feature engineering to neural networks that supercharged facial recognition also created a market for face data…
Pakistan ID authority shares data of 4K wanted people for biometric matching
NADRA has shared the images of more than 4,000 wanted individuals with a public safety body to enable biometric matching…
A proposal for responsible deepfakes
A small academic and corporate team of researchers say they have created a way to preserve the biometric privacy of…
In Groupe unveils offline photo ID verification solution for healthcare programs
French ID solutions firm In Groupe has introduced Photometrix, a system which allows a portrait photo on an ID document…
Biometrics for voter ID adopted by Albania, considered by Guyana
A biometric voter identification system is in the process of being set up in Albania after the country’s Central Election…
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…
NZ police delete unlawfully taken photos, but biometric privacy concerns remain
New Zealand police said they have deleted 11,000 photo files after an official inquiry earlier this month calling for their…
NZ police illegally collecting biometric data from Māori, new investigation suggests
New Zealand police forces are unlawfully taking, storing, and using people’s private biometric information according to a joint investigation by…
Market for photos of masked people to train biometric algorithms surging
One of the largest stock photo platforms in Japan is building a database of images of individuals wearing masks to…
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