US SOF seeks to understand how social media biometrics can be weaponized
The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is studying opportunities to obtain, analyze, and utilize information that’s voluntarily disseminated in the…
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Weibo user claims to have matched 100K women from porn with facial recognition
A Germany-based user of Chinese social media network Weibo says he has used biometric facial recognition to match more than…
Social media conversations about payments increasingly focused on mobile and biometrics
Mentions of biometric payments on social media reached a potential audience of 111 million people in 2018, and references to…
Site using facial recognition to match photos from Russian social media network sued
A new website enabling users to search the image database of Russian social media site VKontakte with facial biometrics has…
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…
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 ……
