House unanimously passes deepfake bill; Senate version still in committee
The bipartisan House Identifying Outputs of Generative Adversarial Networks Act (IOGAN Act), which supports critical research to accelerate the development…
spoof detection
Spoof attacks top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
Spoof attacks in theory and practice and the deployment of facial recognition for use cases including aviation and border crossings,…
Adobe probes tool that detects, reverses facial digital manipulation to fight deepfakes
Adobe, Twitter, and the New York Times have recently joined forces to draw attention to image manipulation and come up…
Biometrics beyond the lock and key
This is a guest post by Saleel Awsare, SVP and GM of the IoT division at Synaptics. What’s next for…
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…
New approaches and technologies to fulfill the online security promise of biometrics
Biometrics are often associated with strong security both in the public consciousness and within the industry. Part of the reason…
Facial recognition systems can be vulnerable to deep morphing, researchers say
Some 95 percent of deepfakes are accepted by biometric facial recognition systems, found a study conducted by Pavel Korshunov and…
Almost three quarters of UK adults have never heard of deepfakes
Nearly three out of four UK adults (72 percent) say they have never heard of deepfake videos, according to survey…
ImageWare introduces GoVerifyID frictionless biometric authentication for macOS
ImageWare Systems announced today that its end-to-end biometric authentication solution GoVerifyID, which incorporates ImageWare’s frictionless, anti-spoofing technology Biointellic, is now…
Google adds massive image database to fight against deepfakes
Google has partnered with Jigsaw to produce and deliver a massive database of visual deepfakes that is now part of…
