DHS to Hold Industry Day for Biometric Scanner Contract
By Chris Burt A hybrid industry day will be held by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on July 29 to share information on a…
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Google Wallet takes next step with US biometric passports
By Chris Burt Google Wallet is rolling out support for American biometric passports, according to an X post from code leaker Assemble Debug. The post,…
Photos of Australian children found in AI training dataset, create deepfake risk
By Masha Borak Personal photos of Australian children are being used to train AI through a dataset that has been built by scraping images from…
US Police Launch Drone Programs, but No Facial Recognition Technology on Unmanned Aircraft Systems – Yet
By Joel R. McConvey Police across the U.S. are putting eyes in the sky, as the adoption of drones for law enforcement emerges as a…
Clearview facial recognition searches double, database reaches 50B images
By Chris Burt The number of facial recognition searches performed with Clearview AI by law enforcement officials has doubled over the past year, reaching 2…
Robots Integrate Biometrics for Parcel Delivery, Security, and Military Operations
By Abhishek Jadhav Tech firms have announced the development and testing of robotic systems with biometric capabilities aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and security surveillance….
You Will Be Tagged… And You Will Love It
Authored by Riley Waggaman via Off-Guardian.org, As expected, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum was the hottest anti-globalist multipolar traditional RETVRN values conference of 2024 –…
Android 15 integrates biometric security across the board
By Abhishek Jadhav In the latest Android 15 Beta 3 release, significant progress has been made in the area of biometric authentication. In addition to…
Five Eyes biometric data sharing increases by over 100X with little transparency
By Chris Burt A network for sharing biometrics, demographics and other data about visitors, migrants and other travelers has ballooned in scope and amount of…
Travelers to EU may be subjected to AI lie detector
By Masha Borak British travelers to Europe may soon have to pass scrutiny from the European Union’s controversial artificial intelligence lie detector iBorderCtrl or similar…
Privacy advocates push back against Meta’s data usage for AI development
By Abigail Opiah Meta has notified millions of European users about upcoming changes to its privacy policy, set to take effect on June 26, 2024….
Those wronged by facial recognition join rights groups in calling for police ban
By Joel R. McConvey There is a small but growing lobby made up of people who have been wrongly arrested as a result of facial…
Ugandan human rights lawyer’s arrest exposes use of national ID for surveillance
By Abigail Opiah A Ugandan human rights lawyer’s recent arrest highlights the country’s surveillance and government control via the use of the national identification card….
Malfunctioning Facial Recognition Technology May Put Innocent Individuals at Risk
By Belle Carter — Natural News Government entities, including seven law enforcement agencies in the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice, have instituted the…