UK watchdog urges facial recognition law
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): The UK Government's Biometrics Commissioner, Professor Paul Wiles, has highlighted the need for laws to govern the police use of facial recognition – a pressing issue in many countries. (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Aegis ‘school shooter’ facial detection system sparks row
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): Schools in the US's Lockport City, New York have been stopped from using the Aegis facial recognition system – which could alert them to the presence of sex offenders and guns carried by ‘school shooters’. (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Hackers steal swathes of US Government facial data
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): Biometric data on tens of thousands of travellers collected by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has been stolen, highlighting the vulnerability of such data when it is centrally stored. (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Game of Guess Who? Researchers use DNA to identify a face
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): Researchers from Belgium and the US have found a way to use any DNA captured at a crime scene to build an image of the suspect's face – and they liken their technique to the game Guess Who? (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Events Calendar
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Fraud threat to biometrics: shedding light on the dark web
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): The encrypted and anonymous nature of the dark web makes it an ideal host for fraudulent activities for one simple reason: it can't be accessed by standard browsers or search engines. To effectively combat the threat fraudsters pose to biometric-based and related authentication systems, researchers need to understand hackers' tactics and their mindsets. And to do this, they need to be where the fraudsters are – in the dark web. Here we interview Ido Rozen, from biometrics fraud detection specialists SecuredTouch, to fin...
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Anti-spoofing's state-of-the-art: deep learning meets super sensors
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): Wael AbdAlmageedIn the 1968 SciFi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 famously says: “I can tell from your voice harmonics, Dave, that you're badly upset. Why don't you take a stress pill and get some rest?”. HAL (an acronym for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) has recognised Dave, analysed his speech and determined his mood. It's amazing – but only by 1960s standards in which Space Odyssey was a fiction movie. Fast forward five decades, and nothing that HAL did is fiction any more, thanks to major a...
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Fingerprint system helps vaccinate vulnerable children
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): Biometric tech specialists NEC and Simprints are jointly developing the world's first scalable child fingerprint ID system which they hope will boost immunisation levels among the 20 million children globally who still do not receive basic vaccines – leaving them exposed to some of the world's deadliest diseases. (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
New system shields people from face recognition
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): California-based privacy specialist Entropic has launched volteFace, a system that enables individuals to anonymise their photos and so protect them from facial recognition systems. (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Microsoft backs recognition firm AnyVision
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): Israel-based AnyVision, which provides face, body and object recognition systems, has raised $74 million in funding from eye-catching investors including Microsoft's own M12 venture capital fund, chipmaker Qualcomm and camera manufacturer Bosch. (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
Source: Biometric Technology Today - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
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Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 7Author(s): Tim Ring (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
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San Francisco residents question city's facial recognition ban
Publication date: June 2019Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2019, Issue 6Author(s): The biometric tech industry and San Francisco residents’ groups have hit out at the city's recent ground-breaking decision to ban facial recognition technology. (Source: Biometric Technology Today)
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