A group of London artists known as the Dazzle Club are using makeup to protest the Metropolitan Police’s rapidly expanding face-based surveillance program. To that end, the group has been going on monthly walks through the city while wearing makeup … [Read more...] about London Artists Wear Makeup to Protest the City’s Use of Facial Recognition
Zwipe Adopts Remote Work Policies to Ensure Employee Safety
Zwipe has detailed some of the steps it is taking to mitigate the business impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most notably, the international company has implemented a full travel ban and adopted new working standards to allow more people to work from … [Read more...] about Zwipe Adopts Remote Work Policies to Ensure Employee Safety
Yoti Adds Three More Companies to Humanitarian Tech Support Programme
Yoti has added three new startups to its Humanitarian Tech Support Programme. The Programme was first announced earlier this year, and was set up to help socially-oriented tech companies develop solutions that will fulfill the needs of specific … [Read more...] about Yoti Adds Three More Companies to Humanitarian Tech Support Programme
Polish School Fined for Collecting Student’s Fingerprints for Lunch Payments
A primary school in the city of Gdansk, Poland, has been fined $5,200 under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) after it was discovered it was collecting students' biometric fingerprint data as a way of verifying whether they had paid … [Read more...] about Polish School Fined for Collecting Student’s Fingerprints for Lunch Payments
Hyderabad, Punjab Join List of Indian Governments Restricting Biometrics Use Due to COVID-19
Governments in India's Hyderabad and Punjab regions have joined a growing list of authorities in India and neighbouring Pakistan in restricting the use of fingerprint-based biometric systems amid fears of the spread of COVID-19. The Punjab … [Read more...] about Hyderabad, Punjab Join List of Indian Governments Restricting Biometrics Use Due to COVID-19
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Leaked Account List Reveals Clearview Granted Access to Thousands of Organizations
Clearview AI’s stolen client list is now out in the open, and the data breach seems to have confirmed people’s worst fears about the controversial facial recognition startup. Clearview first came to light thanks to an article in the New York Times, … [Read more...] about Leaked Account List Reveals Clearview Granted Access to Thousands of Organizations
Buguroo Explains How Fraudsters Recruit People for Mule Accounts
Buguroo has written a brief explainer to teach the general public about mule accounts. A mule account is a real bank account that a criminal uses to launder money, transferring illicit funds into the account and then out again to make the money clean … [Read more...] about Buguroo Explains How Fraudsters Recruit People for Mule Accounts
Year in Review: A Portrait of the Biometrics Industry in 2019
The biometrics industry is enormous, and highly varied. It encompasses a range of technologies and spans across many sectors and myriad applications. And it's still growing, with new opportunities and challenges constantly emerging. That's why it is … [Read more...] about Year in Review: A Portrait of the Biometrics Industry in 2019
Ottawa Police Share More Details About Facial Recognition Trial
Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly has shed some light on the facial recognition trial that the force carried out in the first three months of 2019. The public first found out about the trial after the exposure of Clearview AI, though the Ottawa police … [Read more...] about Ottawa Police Share More Details About Facial Recognition Trial
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