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Biometric solutions provider ID R&D has announced that its artificial intelligence-based voice biometrics solutions are now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The new availability means that Microsoft Azure customers worldwide are now able to access ID R&D’s offerings, and new and existing ID R&D customers can take advantage of the scalability, convenience, and security […]
Microsoft has announced new technology designed to spot deepfake videos, and is aiming to deliver it to media partners via a third party. As the BBC reports, Microsoft built the solution by training an AI system on a dataset of about a thousand deepfake videos and a larger Facebook database of face swap media. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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