A seasoned tech entrepreneur has been named as Daon‘s new President and Chief Product Officer, and has joined the firm’s Board of Directors. Ralph Rodriguez brings to the role a […]

$650 million was not enough to resolve all of Meta’s legal problems in Illinois. That record-breaking 2020 settlement stemmed from a lawsuit that alleged that the tech giant (then known […]

Facebook’s parent company is facing new legal woes in Texas. The state Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta that alleges that the company’s use of facial recognition technology […]

Amid intensifying scrutiny over the Facebook platform’s societal impact, the company has announced that it will discontinue its use of facial recognition. The news came by way of a blog […]

Highlights and Trend-Setter Standouts The Authenticate 2021 conference, only in its second year, has wrapped and the plenary sessions for standards body work under the FIDO Alliance are underway. The […]

A team of Facebook AI researchers has released a new Casual Conversations dataset that was put together to reduce bias in face and voice recognition systems. The dataset contains video […]

According to a recent story from BuzzFeed News, social media giant Facebook is looking into the possibility of adding facial recognition capabilities to its upcoming smart glasses devices, but is […]

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced that a new update will allow most users to use biometrics and multi-factor authentication if they want to sync their account with WhatsApp’s browser […]

“Illinois’s BIPA legislation requires company’s to obtain explicit, informed consent from individuals before using their biometrics – something Facebook did not attempt to do with respect to its photo tagging […]

The deadline is fast approaching for Illinois residents who want to claim their share of the $650 million payout in Facebook’s landmark class-action lawsuit. According to the Chicago Tribune, residents […]