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Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are the subjects of the latest high-profile lawsuits for privacy violations under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which prohibits the capture or storage of an individual’s biometric data without their express consent to do so. The biometric data in question in these instances is faceprints obtained by […]
IBM is getting out of facial recognition. The technology giant has announced that it will no longer be selling general purpose facial recognition software, and will instead focus on police reform while working to reduce racial inequality in America. The decision is a response to the anti-police brutality demonstrations that have swept the country after […]
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 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers detail findings showing that speech recognition systems are significantly more likely to […]
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 the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI). The unlikely trio said that AI should consider human rights, operate transparently, and work reliably and without bias […]
ImageWare Systems is making a few changes in the executive suite. The biometric authentication specialist has announced that Kristin A. Taylor will be stepping up as the company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Taylor will be expected to boost revenue and expand ImageWare’s product portfolio in her capacity as CEO. She will also be […]
Flooid has released a new Flooid App Suite that was designed as a comprehensive checkout and payments solution for virtually any retail environment. The App Suite provides technology for everything from mobile and in-store POS to follow-me baskets and self-checkout, and was unveiled at this week’s NRF 2020 event in New York. The various offerings […]
“We are very pleased Debbie and Mark have joined our company. Their years of experience in financial services, physical access, enterprise technology, global scale and culture fit make them ideal leaders to join our mission,” – Rob Douglas, Chairman & CEO, BioConnect BioConnect is looking to further build on excitement over its multimodal biometric authentication […]
China-style biometric surveillance has come to Malaysia, with authorities in the state of Penang announcing a new CCTV surveillance system that is based on facial recognition. As Channel News Asia reports, the technology comes by way of IBM. It will be applied to video feeds from 767 surveillance cameras deployed throughout the state, with police […]
Microsoft’s face scanning technology is now better able to determine the genders of subjects with darker skin tones, the company has announced. In a post on its AI Blog, Microsoft explained that it had reduced its system’s error rates by “up to 20 times,” and specified that for women the error rates had been reduced […]
“IBM is going to release a dataset of 36,000 facial images that will be equally distributed across a range of ethnicities, genders, and ages.” As the competition to develop sophisticated facial recognition systems continues to escalate, IBM is preparing to make a decidedly counterintuitive move, with plans to release a huge dataset for training facial […]
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