Collaborate Disseminate
The biometric voice data had been collected without explicit consent from people calling the HMRC’s telephone hotline for advice.
Continue reading HMRC to finally erase five million voice records it collected without permission
The UK is ready to fight fraud with biometrics, according to new research revealed by Nuance on World Password Day. The new research carried out by OnePoll asked 1,000 adults aged 18+ in the UK how they feel about traditional passwords and the potentia… Continue reading Consumers increasingly deploying biometrics as PINs and passwords continue to fail
Lawrence Abrams – writing at Bleeping Computer – regales us with the (unfortunately true) tale of nearly two hundred and thirty thousand Danish passports possess invalid finger print data (the hands are ‘swapped’, as it were).
The post Right Hand Does… Continue reading Right Hand Doesn’t Know What The Others Done, The Danish Passport Fiasco
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly requesting that courts allow them to compel suspects to unlock electronic devices with their biometrics. As of yet, though, courts confronted with the question have come up with no unified answer whether … Continue reading Courts Can’t Put Their Finger on How to Handle Compelled Unlocking of Devices with Biometrics
Half of Threatpost readers surveyed in a recent poll don’t believe that consent realistically exists when it comes to facial recognition. Continue reading Facial Recognition ‘Consent’ Doesn’t Exist, Threatpost Poll Finds
And just who, exactly, is going to pay for new passports if it’s necessary? Danish police are chatting with Kube Data about that. Continue reading Fingerprint glitch in passports swapped left and right hands
Nice bit of adversarial machine learning. The image from this news article is most of what you need to know, but here’s the research paper…. Continue reading Fooling Automated Surveillance Cameras with Patchwork Color Printout
As U.S. citizens realize that facial recognition is present in real-life applications, more questions are arising about consent, how data is shared – and what regulation exists. Continue reading Facial Recognition is Here: But Are We Ready?
A video has surfaced claiming to show someone unlocking a Nokia 9 by tapping a gum packet against the fingerprint scanner. Continue reading Phone fingerprint scanner fooled by chewing gum packet
Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction and flagging tools that aim to predict c… Continue reading On Surveillance in the Workplace