Data exposure spotlights ongoing questions about web scrapers and face biometrics
Sections of the web-scraping industry closely resemble the sketchier corners of the search engine optimization community with a couple big…
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iProov report shows biometric onboarding gains in financial services, technology pitched to fix social media
Rabobank is currently onboarding 300 customers a day with biometrics through mobile processes, with 80 percent of them using NFC,…
Biometrics enable researchers to identify individuals from exposed video conference data
Israeli researchers from Ben Gurion University of the Negev warn that third-parties can easily infiltrate video conference meetings and can…
Canadian university launches cybersecurity, biometrics, privacy governance discussion
Toronto-based Ryerson University’s Leadership Lab in partnership with Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst and the Royal Bank have introduced the Cybersecure Policy Exchange…
FTC debate: Really fight today’s violators or find more crime to be overwhelmed by
Reflecting the reality of consumer data harvesting, if not the mood of said consumers, the Federal Trade Commission has said…
Consumers blind about their data — and want Uncle Sam and businesses blind too
A survey conducted in several of the major Western technology economies illustrates how consumers have abdicated control over their data…
Yoti AI age estimation used in BBC investigation of underage porn on social media
Yoti’s anonymous age estimation technology dubbed Yoti Age Scan has helped the BBC investigate a social media trend where people…
Twitter orders Clearview AI to delete and cease scraping images for biometric data
It may be true that, as Internet entrepreneur Hoan Ton-That has said, “a lot of people” are scraping social-media subscribers’…
Indian government withdraws Aadhaar social media monitoring tender as brokerages await eKYC clarity
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has withdrawn a tender for monitoring social media chatter about Aadhaar and help…
Amazon and Twitter take steps against deepfakes
The need to consider synthetic media and its dissemination over social media has been acknowledged by Twitter, which plans to…
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