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Buolamwini responds to Amazon as police admit facial recognition recommendations not followed
MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini has responded to criticisms of her algorithmic bias study, while comments from police using Amazon Rekognition and Microsoft President Brad Smith are likely to further inflame the simmering public debate about the use of facial recognition by law enforcement ... Read the whole story here.

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Gartner predicts spike in biometric authentication on smartphone apps for employee access
The number of business using biometric authentication on smartphone apps for workforce access will grow from fewer than 5 percent...
 
Dismissed biometric privacy suit against Google appealed and filed in state court
A recently-dismissed lawsuit filed against Google under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been given new life by the...
SmartMetric reaches biometric card manufacturing agreement with ServiRed
SmartMetric announced it has entered into an agreement with ServiRed to manufacture the SmartMetric biometric credit card with Advantis credit...
 
Touch ID may return to iPhones under full display for dual biometrics
Touch ID may be returning to iPhones with an ultrasonic fingerprint sensing area covering the whole display, according to a...
Booz Allen wins contract to develop mobile biometric hardware for DoD
Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a potential five-year, $36.6M contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a hand-held biometric...
 
Victoria enacts rules for deploying facial recognition in public schools
Public schools in the Australian state of Victoria will require approval from parents, students, and the Department of Education to...
Former robotics head at Amazon joins Onfido as VP of research
Onfido announced today that it has hired Mohan Mahadevan, the former head of computer vision and machine learning for robotic...
 
New partnership to provide training in emerging technologies for U.S. law enforcement
The IJIS Institute, the National Police Foundation, and the Center on Policing at Rutgers University have launched a partnership to...
Leak indicates Xiaomi flagship may feature extra large in-display fingerprint sensor
The new Oppo K1 smartphone includes in-display fingerprint biometrics, and reports indicate that Xiaomi’s unreleased Mi 9 flagship smartphone will...
 
Sinerix onboarding and biometric ID verification software available to Grey Matter customers
UK cloud technology company Sinerix today announced it has signed a deal to provide Grey Matter customers with electronic signature...
Appdome launches no-code multi-factor authentication integration for mobile apps
Cloud app integration platform Appdome has announced a new service category for multi-factor authentication to enable developers to easily enhance...
 
Researchers developing sophisticated biometric spoof detection system with IARPA backing
A researcher at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute is working with an international team to build spoof-proof...
 
 
 
 
 
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