The Multi-national Push to Ban Facial Recognition in Public Spaces
By Bianca Gonzalez As businesses and governments in the U.S. and across the globe implement facial recognition surveillance in public spaces, privacy advocates are pushing…
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Flawed Investigations, Camera Limitations Plague Mexico City’s Surveillance System
By Bianca Gonzalez In the last decade, Mexico City has installed the largest video surveillance system in the Americas, altering the way criminal investigations are…
Montana Passes Genetic Information Privacy Act, Continues to Lead US in Privacy Protection
By Bianca Gonzalez Montana has passed the Genetic Information Privacy Act with a number of broad definitions that provides wide protections for state residents, according…
Wells Fargo Accused of Scam Involving Racketeering, Synthetic Identity Fraud
By Bianca Gonzalez Wells Fargo has been hit with a putative class action alleging that they worked with a credit reporting agency that they co-own…
Facial Recognition Used to Streamline Roll Call in Brazil Schools
By Bianca Gonzalez The school roll call as most know it is being transformed by face biometrics. In Paraná, Brazil, over 200,000 students were processed…
PhD Student Uses Deepfake to Pass Popular Voice Authentication and Spoof Detection System
By Bianca Gonzalez University of Waterloo (UW) cybersecurity PhD student Andre Kassis published his findings after being granted access to an account protected with biometrics…
India Women Use Digital IDs to Apply for Basic Income Program
By Bianca Gonzalez The chief minister of India’s Tamil Nadu state has opened a camp in the Dharmapuri district to help 10 million eligible women…
1Password, Microsoft Move to Biometric Authentication
By Bianca Gonzalez 1Password and Microsoft are among vendors moving to passwordless login, switching to phishing-resistant biometric passkeys. In a blog post, 1Password announced a…
Use of Face Biometrics Sharply Criticized in Two US Criminal Cases
By Bianca Gonzalez Kylese Perryman, 21, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against two police agencies in the U.S. state of Minnesota following his…