From doubt to assurance: The battle for online integrity
By Aled Lloyd Owen, Global Policy Director, Onfido As the UK public digested the results of July’s General Election, and…
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Synthetic aging helps facial recognition algorithms navigate age gaps, says new paper
The question of aging is a particularly tough nugget for legislators to chew on when considering facial recognition or face…
Researchers navigate facial recognition algorithm training with synthetic data
A new paper authored by a team from the Biometrics Security and Privacy group at the Idiap Research Institute explores…
AI deepfakes are wreaking havoc on an unprepared financial industry
The identity of the firm targeted in a deepfake video scam that resulted in the loss of US$25 million has…
Nations and companies line up defenses against AI deepfake fraud
Regulatory alarms are sounding on new risks presented by deepfake technology and the concurrent spike in AI-driven fraud. New security…
NIST data protection guidance, international standards follow Biden executive order
Following Joe Biden’s executive order for data protection at the end of February, the Department of Commerce has announced three…
Preventing AI-assisted deepfake fraud is becoming a major commercial industry
Deepfakes have become the latest technically challenging threat for the biometric security sector, as researchers and developers push fraud-protection tools…
Synthetic data model shows promise for biometric bias mitigation
The limitations of real-world biometric training datasets, including the introduction of bias through unbalanced demographic representation, are well established. Synthetic…
Humans more likely to notice fakes among familiar faces, research suggests
Deepfakes and synthetic data, and how they impact biometric systems was the focus of the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory Annual Workshop…
Biometrics could be a fix for the growing headache of synthetic ID fraud
Biometrics and digital ID firms are responding to a significant uptick in synthetic identity fraud, which uses generative AI and…
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