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Group of researchers calls for Amazon to stop selling biometric Rekognition to law enforcement
The group of researchers include recent Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, as well as former principal scientist for AWS Anima Anandkumar, researchers from several universities, and representatives of other companies that use or provide facial recognition technology, including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft ... Read the whole story here.

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Odyssey hackathon to explore place of biometrics in new digital ecosystems
When the 2019 Odyssey blockchain hackathon takes place, 100 teams supported by partners and experts from a variety of stakeholder...
 
Eliminating mobile fraud with biometric authentication
This is a guest post by DJ Murphy, editor-in-chief of Card Not Present. Merchants are investing heavily in mobile commerce...
New SecuGen and FaceFirst products among biometric technologies to be demonstrated at ISC West
ISC West 2019 will feature demonstrations of several new biometric technologies this week, with notable emphasis on easing deployments and...
 
IDEMIA biometric technology selected by Royal Caribbean to expedite passenger debarkation
IDEMIA, together with Royal Caribbean Cruises and U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today the expansion of Royal Caribbean’s debarkation...
EU Commissioner warns Malta public facial recognition plan may not meet legal requirements
European Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourova has written that a planned deployment of a Safe City CCTV network with biometric...
 
Biometrics Institute briefs UN member states on counter-terrorism compendium and next steps
The Biometrics Institute has briefed representatives of all UN Member States at a meeting in New York to raise awareness...
National Australia Bank considering behavioral biometrics for fraud prevention
National Australia Bank is discussing how to leverage biometric technology to protect customers from new kinds of financial crime, The...
 
Moscow’s CCTV network to deploy facial recognition to 70 times more cameras this year
The number of video cameras in Moscow’s public surveillance network equipped with facial biometrics will grow by 70 times from...
Facial recognition pilot to identify New York drivers reports zero percent success rate
The first phase in a proof of concept test of biometric facial recognition at the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge by...
 
Hack of Samsung Galaxy S10 ultrasonic fingerprint sensor suggests no liveness detection
The ultrasonic biometric fingerprint scanner on a Samsung Galaxy S10 has been hacked with a 3D-printed copy of the phone...
NEXT Biometrics speaking at IOTA`s Digital Trust and the Economy of Things meeting
NEXT Biometrics is participating in this week’s IOTA Digital Trust and the Economy of Things meeting being hosted by the...
 
IDEX saves time developing next-generation ASICs for IoT security using Agnisys IDesignSpec
IDEX Biometrics has selected Agnisys IDesignSpec software to aid development of the next-generation ASIC devices for IoT security. Agnisys is...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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