Amazing what online search, social media profiles, a DMV database and cameras everywhere can turn up about us.
Tag Archives: biometrics
Clearview AI facial recogition sued again – this time by ACLU
Clearview AI, the company that’s scraped billions of images to build a facial recognition system, is getting sued again.
Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies
… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.
S2 Ep34: Can you trust hackers on how not to get hacked? – Naked Security Podcast
Sophos experts discuss the biggest cybersecurity stories of the last week.
As if the world couldn’t get any weirder, this AI toilet scans your anus to identify you
It’s what the researchers call “A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta.”
Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics
The suit is about biometrics and children’s privacy in Google’s education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19.
NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners
The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn’t bother to respond.
IWD: biometrics, machine learning, privacy and being a woman in tech – Naked Security Podcast
To celebrate International Women’s Day we invite you to this all-female splinter episode.
Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images
It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.
Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?