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Microsoft Celebrates Washington’s New Facial Recognition Bill

April 3, 2020

Washington Governor Jay Inslee has officially signed the state’s new facial recognition bill into law. The state legislature passed the new regulations on March 12, and they will formally go […]

Microsoft Divests from AnyVision After Audit into Alleged Mass Surveillance Program

March 31, 2020

Covington & Burling has completed its audit of the Israeli facial recognition specialist AnyVision. The audit was carried out at the request of Microsoft in an effort to determine whether […]

Study Finds Racial Bias in Leading Speech Recognition Systems

March 24, 2020

The same kind of machine learning-produced racial biases found in some facial recognition technologies are also in play in speech recognition, according to new research from Stanford Engineering. In a […]

Washington State Passes Stronger Facial Recognition Regulations

March 16, 2020

The Washington State House of Representatives and the Senate have reached an agreement on new legislation regulating the use of facial recognition technology. Under the newly-passed Senate Bill 6280 — […]

Vatican Joins Calls for Facial Recognition Regulation

March 4, 2020

Joining forces with tech giants IBM and Microsoft, the Vatican has added its voice to those calling for the regulation of facial recognition technologies while also stressing the importance of […]

Feitian Biometric Security Keys Support Passwordless Authentication for Azure AD

February 26, 2020

Security technology provider Feitian Technologies US Inc. has announced its support for fingerprint biometric passwordless solutions for Microsoft’s Hybrid Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Feitian’s passwordless security keys — made […]

Nuance Adds Ambient Clinical Intelligence to Dragon Medical Portfolio

February 24, 2020

The strategic partnership between Nuance Communications and Microsoft is already starting to pay dividends. The two companies announced that they would be joining forces back in October to accelerate the […]

Here’s a Look at the Keynote Lineup for the FIDO Alliance’s Authenticate Conference

February 4, 2020

The FIDO Alliance has finally shared the list of keynote speakers for the inaugural Authenticate conference in June. The organization first put out the call for speakers when Authenticate was […]

Biometrics Controversy: Google, Microsoft Execs Differ Over Proposed Facial Recognition Moratorium

January 22, 2020

With the tech industry facing the possibility of a multi-year moratorium on biometric facial recognition in the European Union, the executives of two of the world’s biggest companies have come […]

BioCatch Joins Microsoft Azure Marketplace

November 20, 2019

“…BioCatch is now able help Azure users secure their systems through its sophisticated behavioral analytics technology, which uses Artificial Intelligence to assess over 2,000 parameters of user interaction for aberrant […]

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