Feds Force Suspect To Unlock An Apple iPhone X With Their Face
It’s the first time since the iPhone X launched that any cop has used Face ID to force an iOS […]
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Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than You Think
Governments seek to digitize their citizens in an effort to universalize government services, while the banking, travel, and insurance industries […]
Facial Recognition Tech Is Ready for Its Post-Phone Future
Apple’s Face ID turned facial recognition into the iPhone’s hottest feature. It isn’t just cool; it is convenient. A year later, the […]
Facial recognition tech could shorten airport security lines, but is it accurate?
There is growing concern over new technology that could be the future of airport security. The TSA has a new […]
How should we regulate facial recognition?
Facial recognition is everywhere — airports, police stations, and built into the largest cloud platforms in the world — but […]
FPF Releases Understanding Facial Detection, Characterization, and Recognition Technologies and Privacy Principles for Facial Recognition Technology in Commercial Applications
FPF has published the infographic Understanding Facial Detection, Characterization, and Recognition Technologies along with Privacy Principles for Facial Recognition Technology […]
Apple will replace TouchID with FaceID
The new iPhones announced on Wednesday, the iPhone XS, the XS Max, and the XR, only use FaceID, TouchID’s heir […]
Thousands Of Stores Will Soon Use Facial Recognition
Facial recognition cameras are scanning faces at hundreds of retail stores to catch shoplifters before they steal. But everyday shoppers […]
We underestimate the threat of facial recognition technology at our peril
Data could be used to draw conclusions about who you are, what you believe, what you have done – and […]
This powerful new “face search” engine could be a privacy nightmare
Cybersecurity firm Trustwave has released an open source tool to find accounts of large volumes of people across social media […]
Homeless shelter plans to ID clients with facial recognition
Agencies have struggled with how to identify clients that don’t have official ID, and one Calgary shelter thinks it might […]
10 ways China watches its citizens
From tracking the activity of mobile app users to setting up a social credit scorecard, the world’s most populated country […]