Muslim-fearing nation and fearful Muslim nation rumored building biometric monitor network
Two of the world’s most rigidly authoritarian regimes have deep-seated problems with Islam and intend to erase their problems using…
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PimEyes sees use by Australian police, enacts ban on searches for children
The controversial Tbilisi-based facial recognition website PimEyes, which lets users upload photos of anonymous people and scrapes the Internet for…
New public policy group forms to address AI risks
A U.S. advocate for civil rights affected by technology has created a new unit that will work on AI-related risks….
Israel is using Amazon Rekognition to locate missing and dead
Amazon’s facial recognition system Rekognition is being used in Israel to locate missing and dead after a deadly attack by…
Biometrics’ convergence with digital identity, wallets sparks resurgence of investment
Biometrics is backing a range of national government programs and technical standards for digital identity in some of the most-read…
Safety, privacy professionals caution against facial recognition in US schools
As facial recognition deployments and restrictions proliferate among American schools, observers are calling for sober evaluation of claims made by…
Texas university launching large synthetic face biometrics training dataset
Using synthetic data instead of real people’s faces to train facial recognition systems has been gaining ground among biometrics companies…
Facial recognition gains for shoplifting investigations jeopardized by policy gaps
Facial recognition is being used to identify shoplifters in London and in Evansville, Indiana, but also generating controversy. Metropolitan Police…
Payface buys SmileGo to extend reach of face biometrics payments in Brazil
Brazilian startup Payface, which focuses on payment systems using face biometrics, has closed a deal to purchase SmileGo, a rival…
Narrow UK biometric data privacy win for Clearview
A United Kingdom tribunal has agreed with online face photo-scraper Clearview AI that a regulator was off the leash in…
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