Collaborate Disseminate
The coronavirus pandemic is creating a lucrative market for facial recognition manufacturers. But privacy issues need to be top of mind, tech experts warn. Continue reading Covid-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears
The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn’t bother to respond. Continue reading NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners
To celebrate International Women’s Day we invite you to this all-female splinter episode. Continue reading IWD: biometrics, machine learning, privacy and being a woman in tech – Naked Security Podcast
It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t. Continue reading Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images
Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts? Continue reading Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
IT security practitioners are aware of good habits when it comes to strong authentication and password management, yet often fail to implement them due to poor usability or inconvenience, according to Yubico and Ponemon Institute. The conclusion is tha… Continue reading Users still engaging in risky password, authentication practices
The bill now goes to the House, which has a stiffer competing bill pending that would call for a 3.5 year moratorium. Continue reading Washington state Senate passes bill to rein in facial recognition
A few years back, authentication used to be very simple, i.e. users needed two strings (username and password). If someone knows both, then they can access the account—easy as that. This was the case when the ecosystem was simple as well. At that time… Continue reading RIP, Passwords: Hello, Biometrics
It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does. Continue reading Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it’s finally done churning through the courts. Continue reading Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit