Yubo deploys Yoti age estimation technology to keep its community safe
Yoti recently revealed that Yubo, a social media app for teens, has adopted Yoti’s age estimation technology Yoti Age Scan…
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Gemalto research shows data breaches less frequent but larger so far in 2018
More than 4.5 billion digital records have been compromised in data breaches during the first half of 2018, according to…
Indian government agencies plan to add facial recognition to social media monitoring
India’s Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh says the country’s security agencies are attempting to use facial recognition to monitor individual’s…
Google develops method of identifying individuals with web search and facial recognition
Google received a patent in July for a system which searches images from social networks and applies facial recognition to…
Welsh police match fingerprint from WhatsApp image
South Wales Police have convicted a drug dealer on 11 charges based on fingerprints captured from a photograph in a…
Social media, databases, behavioral identifiers said future of law enforcement biometrics
“We think the next wave of advancement for biometrics [for law enforcement] will come from a social context through ……
Facebook photos could be used to dupe facial recognition
In a presentation delivered at the Usenix security conference earlier this month, security and computer vision researchers from the University…
Passé passwords give way to biometric authentication
This is a guest post by Patrick Salyer, CEO of Gigya Many consumers use Twitter as their “go-to” resource for…
Snapchat acquires 3D selfies app developer Seene
A couple of months ago, Snapchat quietly acquired 3D photo app developer Seene (also known as Obvious Engineering) which allows…
Russian photographer uses facial recognition in social media experiment
A recent project entitled ‘Your face is big data’ saw an art school student photograph people who happened to sit…
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