Pistols drawn as UK surveillance state duels with rights groups
By Joel R. McConvey As the UK pushes forward with digital surveillance projects, the chorus of voices weighing in on the legal, ethical and practical…
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Facial recognition coming to LA transit after passenger fatally stabbed
By Joel R. McConvey Transit officials in Los Angeles have declared a public safety emergency over the stabbing of a 66-year-old woman in the city’s…
Mastercard announces new AI suite with behavioral biometrics to fight fraud
By Joel R. McConvey Large financial institutions are coming to terms with the new world of tech-driven fraud and adopting digital identity tools as an…
AI surveillance robot uses facial recognition to decide who to blast with paintballs
AP Editor’s Note: Well, it’s not difficult to see the sinister applications of AI technology that autonomously selects who to fire on. Now it’s home…
U.S. academic institutions get biometric upgrades with new partnerships
By Joel R. McConvey A press release says ROC (formerly Rank One Computing), which provides U.S.-made biometrics and computer vision for military, law enforcement and…
EU digital wallet framework finally adopted for digital ID ‘paradigm shift’
By Joel R. McConvey The European Council has formally adopted a new framework for a European Digital Identity Wallets (EUDIWs) that will allow citizens to…
Nepal to Assign Unique ID Number at Birth as Part of Digital ID Program
By Joel R. McConvey Digital identity for individuals will soon start at birth or shortly thereafter in Nepal, where the government has begun issuing digital…
Biometrics Providers See Novel Uses for Facial Recognition in Healthcare and Education
By Joel R. McConvey Through a new partnership with Latin American security provider ISEG, Corsight AI’s facial recognition technology has been deployed at three hospitals…
Audio Cloning can Take Over a Phone Call in Real Time Without the Speakers Knowing
By Joel McConvey Generative AI could be listening to your phone calls and hijacking them with fake biometric audio for fraud or manipulation purposes, according…
Google Lawsuit for Collecting Biometrics Without Consent Revived in Canada
By Joel R. McConvey The British Columbia Court of Appeal says Yeremia Situmorang, who filed a civil claim alleging pictures of his children taken on…
To Grow Biometric Datasets, Google and Telus Will Pay $50 for Short Videos of Children
By Joel R. McConvey The question of how to train face biometrics algorithms often comes with concerns about consent in the use of publicly available…
Travel Industry Adoption of Facial Recognition Grows
By Joel R. McConvey Travelers are likely to be among the first to experience the mass worldwide commercial deployment of facial recognition, with a steady…
All of Universal’s Orlando Theme Parks to Get Facial Recognition Upgrade
By Joel R. McConvey Facial recognition is about to get totally epic – or, rather, Epic is about to get facial recognition. Epic Universe, the…
Singapore, Dubai, Aruba Airports Embrace Biometrics for Passport-free Traveler Clearance
By Joel R. McConvey Activist Post Editor’s Note — All of the digital systems that have been rolled out in the name of convenience have…