Factors like the COVID-19 pandemic has eased people into the idea of quicker, passwordless authentication options. From protecting finger scan data to real-time facial recognition best practices, let’s explore how the biometrics industry is enhancing its security measures.
While much of the rest of the world grapples with the level of access law enforcement should have to facial recognition technology, the Moscow Metro system has leapt ahead to using it as a form of fare payment.
On 19 February the European Commission presented three papers setting out no less than the digital future of the EU. So what are they exactly and why are they not laws?
Mounting controversy over law enforcement agencies’ use of new facial recognition tool developed by Clearview AI, which allegedly scraped more than 3 billion photographs of people from Internet.
Amazon announced its facial recognition suite Rekognition is able to read fear as an added emotion. This capability has raised new privacy concerns if implemented by law enforcement agencies.
A leaked survey shows Amazon Ring assessing demand for potential new features including facial recognition and license plate scanning tools for their future product versions.
Facial recognition firm Clearview AI is facing a new lawsuit for violating Illinois state privacy laws for trawling public sources to vacuum up pictures of millions of people without consent.
California legislature decided to rein in the “surveillance state” by passing a three-year state-wide moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology in body cams used by law enforcement agencies.
Is facial recognition software secure by design? A question rarely asked is “how safe is the infrastructure that holds and processes all this data?” As long as organizations refuse to audit the security of their suppliers, facial recognition software will remain inherently unsafe, especially in the hands of the police.
The Clearview AI facial recognition system has been criticized for infringing the privacy of individuals and assertions of racial and gender bias. Get the facts from a technology lawyer and police officer with hands-on experience with the tool.