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…
After final approval in $650M biometric data privacy suit, Facebook seeks arbitration for Instagram
Facebook’s $650 million settlement of a biometric data privacy suit has been granted final approval in the Northern District of…
Wearable biometrics employed for health monitoring and advice, work safety
Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) has launched a study to evaluate the effectiveness of biometrics and other data gathered by…
Clearview AI biometric data privacy suit sent back to state court
A biometric data privacy lawsuit against Clearview AI will head back to state court after the Seventh Circuit Court of…
Biometric privacy claim against Pindrop and Amazon dismissed for lack of jurisdiction
Amazon and Pindrop did not violate biometric privacy law in Illinois by capturing data for voice recognition from people when…
ID4Africa calls on Facebook to settle face biometrics bias question through NIST testing
The presence of demographic differences in face biometrics performance has dogged increasingly dogged the modality, and been referred to in…
Impact of Facebook $650 million Patel BIPA settlement
This is a guest post by David Oberly, an associate at Blank Rome and biometric privacy expert. The original $550…
Facebook biometric data collection practices investigated by Texas AG
Facebook’s collection of biometric information is under investigation by The Attorney General of Texas to see if it violated the…
Facebook adds $100M to biometric privacy settlement in attempt to satisfy skeptical judge
Facebook has added $100 million to its proposed settlement in a Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuit, Fortune reports. The…
