Turing Video, Amazon among latest biometric data privacy lawsuit targets
Turing Video has been named in the lawsuit of a customer’s employee, which alleges violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy…
Facebook disables feature after algorithm racism incident
Facebook has apologized and disabled an artificial intelligence algorithm said to be at the origin of a popped-up message labelling…
Facebook joins ID2020, fined $5.5M for facial recognition violations by South Korea
Facebook is the latest company to join ID2020 to contribute to its efforts pioneering user-managed, privacy-protecting digital ID. According to a…
AI researchers won’t be playing ‘trust fall’ with Facebook. Or China
There are organizations that AI researchers trust less than Facebook, according to a new paper, and they are all Chinese….
Ready for handling Metaverse biometric data?
If or when the internet transitions into the Metaverse — something Facebook is already working towards — the amount of…
Reverse-engineering deepfakes to pry out telling secrets
Scientists at Facebook and Michigan State University are describing their reverse-engineering method for identifying deepfakes and learning what was used…
Facebook plans smartwatch with biometrics, Apple Watch to upgrade health app
Facebook is considering an innovative design for its upcoming smartwatch with a biometric heart rate monitor and two detachable cameras,…
Facebook wants to build trust in AI with its Casual Conversations dataset
Taking an active rather than reactive position on building trustworthy AI, Facebook has opened a new dataset to algorithm developers…
Facebook self-supervised computer vision model promises object recognition breakthrough
Facebook has announced the development of a new computer vision model, named SEER (SElf-supERvised). SEER has been pre-trained on a…
Facebook mulls face biometrics for forthcoming smart glasses
Facebook’s upcoming smart glasses are due to launch this year, and the company is assessing whether face biometrics could be…
