Collaborate Disseminate
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
Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves. Continue reading Facebook expands use of face recognition
Facebook says new users will no longer have their faces in photos scanned automatically, and existing users will be given the option to opt-out.
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In a stiflingly hot lecture tent at CCCamp on Friday, Adam Harvey took to the stage to discuss the huge data sets being used by groups around the world to train facial recognition software. These faces come from a variety of sources and soon Adam and his research collaborator Jules …read more
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for May 20th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: A serious spyware vulnerability in WhatsApp, San Francisco bans facial recognition, and a wormable vulnerability in older Microsoft sys… Continue reading Critical WhatsApp Vulnerability, Facial Recognition Ban, Wormable Flaw in Windows
Many Chinese cities, among them Ningbo, are investing heavily in AI and facial recognition technology. Uses range from border control — at Shanghai’s international airport and the border crossing with Macau — to the trivial: shaming jaywalkers.
In Ningbo, cameras oversee the intersections, and use facial-recognition to shame offenders by putting their faces up on large displays for all to see, and presumably mutter “tsk-tsk”. So it shocked Dong Mingzhu, the chairwoman of China’s largest air conditioner firm, to see her own face on the wall of shame when she’d done nothing wrong. The AIs had picked up her face …read more
This is the 78th episode of the Shared Security Podcast sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and&… Continue reading The Shared Security Podcast Episode 78 – Summer Camp Facial Recognition, Dark Web Dangers
If AI is increasingly able to recognise and classify faces, then the only way to counter this creeping surveillance is to use another AI to defeat it. Thanks to the University of Toronto, this may soon be possible. Continue reading Blocking facial recognition surveillance using AI
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for June 4, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions, Silent Pocket and CISOBox. This episode was hosted … Continue reading The Shared Security Podcast Weekly Blaze – Telegram Messenger in Russia, Amazon’s Facial Recognition Technology, Digital License Plates
This blog is based on an article authored by David Vergara, Director of Security Product Marketing, VASCO, that first appeared 2/21/2018 in Credit Union Times. As part of a secure and seamless mobile first strategy, banks, credit unions, and other fin… Continue reading 8 Tips for a Secure and Frictionless Mobile First Strategy