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…
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…
