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Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be selling any facial recognition technology to the police. The company has refused to sell facial recognition tech to law enforcement in the past, but critics have been asking for a firmer commitment as anti-police brutality protests have continued in recent days. “This moment calls on us to […]
Microsoft has applied for a patent for a set of headphones with built-in biometric fingerprint recognition. According to the patent, the fingerprint scanner would be placed somewhere on the surface of the headphones, with the ear cups standing as one of the more likely possibilities. Consumers would be able to use the fingerprint reader to […]
Healthcare-focused digital identity company Imprivata has announced a new partnership with Microsoft that aims to support healthcare services and advance clinical mobility. The partnership will include Imprivata Identity Governance, hosted in Microsoft Azure, as well as the Imprivata OneSign Single Sign-on (SSO) solution integrated with the Azure Active Directory (Microsoft’s identity service), which will provide […]
According to Microsoft chief technology officer (CTO) Kevin Scott, biometric smart rings being worn by healthcare workers at a San Francisco hospital are an example of the sort of benefits we could expect if more funding went into artificial intelligence (AI) technology as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak. Scott, who has a new book […]
Washington Governor Jay Inslee has officially signed the state’s new facial recognition bill into law. The state legislature passed the new regulations on March 12, and they will formally go into effect in 2021. In the meantime, one of the state’s most notable commercial residents is already celebrating the Governor’s decision. Microsoft argues that the […]
Covington & Burling has completed its audit of the Israeli facial recognition specialist AnyVision. The audit was carried out at the request of Microsoft in an effort to determine whether or not AnyVision’s technology was being used in a mass surveillance scheme of Palestinians in the West Bank, as had been alleged in a series […]
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 […]
The Washington State House of Representatives and the Senate have reached an agreement on new legislation regulating the use of facial recognition technology. Under the newly-passed Senate Bill 6280 — which the lawmakers are calling “one of the first and most comprehensive laws to regulate facial recognition technology in the nation” — facial recognition technologies […]
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 […]
Security technology provider Feitian Technologies US Inc. has announced its support for fingerprint biometric passwordless solutions for Microsoft’s Hybrid Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Feitian’s passwordless security keys — made in collaboration with Microsoft — are FIDO2 compliant and are now available for enterprise, government, healthcare, educational, and individual user applications. The BioPass (USB-C, USB-A) […]
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