Bill Gates funding Digital ID research The Alan Turing Institute cooperates with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve digital identity solutions. Check out the program page for more details. NIST to benchmark facial recognition on faces with masks Everybody… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #56 – Bill Gates, Digital IDs and the issues of managing identities
A lot has happen in the biometric field in the past two weeks, from facial recognition vendors helping countries fight the spread of the virus to affecting fingerprint scanner market. Also some great guides to facial recognition and interesting look… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #55 – The death of fingerprint scanners
Of course biometric field is influenced by current pandemic, but also good news about facial recognition accuracy and bad (or good, depending on your goal) news about deep fakes. Enjoy! Covid-19 everywhere Biometric shift to face is only being accelerated… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #54 – Covid everywhere
Azure is starting to support biometrics as a replacement for passwords, police departments can get really creative when using facial recognition and why banning facial recognition is missing the point. Enjoy! Azure supports FIDO2 Azure Active Directory will support FIDO2… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #53 – Azure biometric support, criminal investigations and more
EU wants to share criminal databases, Singapore watns to get rid of IDs and Passports and yet another way to fool facial recognition. Enjoy! NEC profile Everybody inside the industry knows NEC, but if you have never heard of this… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #52 – Great long-forms about NEC and Facial recogniton
This edition brings good and bad news about controversial company Clearview AI. You can also find out about best practices working with biometrics or huge fines for Facebook and Google. Enjoy! Biometrics Identifying anybody thanks to social media This New… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #51 – Clearview AI and the backlash
While a project mentioned in today’s edition is demonstrating sunglasses that prevent infrared cameras from recognizing you, other news talk about US military and Intel working on recognizing you by using your body heat. I guess we will have never-ending… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #50 – Heat seeking facial recognition vs. Sunglasses
In this edition the highlight for me is an article from Yahoo news about the trouble spy agencies are in because of biometrics and surveillance (I love irony). Other than that, you can read about reducing friction or using biometrics… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #49 – How biometrics is making spying hard
Happy New Year everybody! After a holiday pause I have prepared a short summary of stories that caught my eye in the biometric industry. Find out more about phishing attacks, account creation fraud and more. Enjoy! Biometrics Children still not… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #48 – Emotion detection is BS, biometric cards are coming and more
I am back from vacation with more news for you! In today’s edition you can find about how Chinese companies are drafting standards or how US Navy saves millions by using biometrics. Enjoy! Source: juniperpublishers.com Biometrics Streaming services trying to… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #47