Is Deepfake Detection Software Ready for Voice-enabled AI Agents?
By Joel R. McConvey OpenAI’s release of its real-time voice API has raised questions about how AI biometric voice technology might be used to supercharge…
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Draft bill allowing German police to search web with facial recognition panned
By Joel R. McConvey Germany is among the first European nations to push at the seams of the AI Act, with a row brewing over…
Facial recognition and AI monitoring deployed in India’s largest railway network
By Joel R. McConvey India’s rail networks are adding AI and facial recognition systems to their stations, part of a growing biometrics and surveillance market…
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…
Police in US cities that ban facial recognition asking others to do it for them
By Joel R. McConvey A major report in the Washington Post has found that law enforcement officers in U.S. several cities where facial recognition tech…
AI deepfakes are wreaking havoc on an unprepared financial industry
By Joel R. McConvey The identity of the firm targeted in a deepfake video scam that resulted in the loss of US$25 million has been…
DHS and TSA adjust digital strategies with biometrics, facial recognition
By Joel R. McConvey U.S. government agencies are adapting in real time to a digital landscape transformed by AI, identity fraud, deepfakes and biometric technologies….
Clearview AI facial recognition gets green light for use by Dallas police
By Joel R. McConvey Police in Dallas, Texas are getting AI-driven facial recognition technology. Local ABC affiliate WFAA reports that city council has approved the…
Civil rights groups want facial recognition technology banned in New York State
By Joel R. McConvey A group of major civil rights organizations in New York is pushing for a statewide ban on the use of facial…
Indian police adopt facial recognition despite risk of massive data breaches
By Joel McConvey “Real-time facial recognition” typically refers to continuous biometric monitoring. But it applies equally as well to the experience of watching in real…
Pistols drawn as UK surveillance state duels with rights groups
By Joel R. McConvey As the UK pushes forward with digital surveillance projects, the chorus of voices weighing in on the legal, ethical and practical…
Facial recognition coming to LA transit after passenger fatally stabbed
By Joel R. McConvey Transit officials in Los Angeles have declared a public safety emergency over the stabbing of a 66-year-old woman in the city’s…
Mastercard announces new AI suite with behavioral biometrics to fight fraud
By Joel R. McConvey Large financial institutions are coming to terms with the new world of tech-driven fraud and adopting digital identity tools as an…
AI surveillance robot uses facial recognition to decide who to blast with paintballs
AP Editor’s Note: Well, it’s not difficult to see the sinister applications of AI technology that autonomously selects who to fire on. Now it’s home…