Security
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2.6KSydney Airport Starts To Begin Testing Facial Recognition Tech
The Sydney Airport in partnership with airline Quantas has announced it will be running a facial racognition technology trial. The airport and...
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2.9K3 Ways To Use Mobile Authentication Safely with Xperi’s Sumat Mehra
As Mobile World Congress Shanghai came to an end, we realized just how much tech companies focus on identity and security right...
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3.2KFighting Facial Recognition Bias With IBM’s Diverse Dataset
[adrotate group=”9″] With ever-growing concerns about facial recognition systems that might be biased and end up targeting specific groups of people,...
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5.0KJapanese CCTV is AI-powered And Able To Catch Shoplifters In The Act
[adrotate group=”9″] Japanese tech company Earth Eyes has created a smart security camera called AI Guardman, which catches thieves in the...
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2.4KBye Wi-Fi Hacks! WPA3 Security Protocol Is a Major Update
[adrotate group=”9″] One of the most common hacking attacks targets Wi-Fi devices but that’s about to change, as the Wi-Fi alliance...
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2.6KPalm Scanners and Facial Recognition, Soon at the Subway in Beijing
[adrotate group=”9″] The 10 million people that the subway in Beijing expects daily will use the latest biometric technology to access...
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6.3KEU Votes to Ban Memes By Encouraging Censorship Machines
One more step in the wrong direction? The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs just approved two articles of the new Copyright...
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2.8KGoogle Home and Chromecast Devices Could Let Attackers Know Your Location
IoT devices like smart home accessories have long been a favorite target for security researchers and they now draw the alarm again:...
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3.1KOne Drone Helped Reduce Robberies by 30%
Unmanned aerial vehicles have gone from attacking (in the old military days) to preventing. In Ensenada, Mexico, one particular drone has managed to...
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2.1KDHS to Scan Travelers Using Facial Recognition
Last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was considering adopting a facial recognition system that would analyze photos of people in...
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2.0KAI Researchers Create ‘Privacy Filter’ That Impairs Facial Recognition Software
Professor Parham Aarabi and graduate student Avishek Bose from U of T Engineering have managed to create an algorithm that disrupts facial...
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2.3KUber Panic Button Is Now Live in the U.S
Over a month ago, Uber announced that it would update its app to increase passenger safety with features like allowing riders to...
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3.3KChinese Students Are Monitored with Facial Recognition Cameras
China has fully embraced facial recognition technology, previously making headlines with their own “Skynet” technology, a tech that uses facial recognition to...
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4.1KFacebook and Google Hit with $8.8 Billion in Lawsuits on GDPR First Day
Facebook and Google got hit hard on the first day of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement and the lawsuits kept...
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2.9KCongress Wants Answers About Amazon Rekognition
Earlier this week we reported on Amazon’s controversial face-recognition technology (Rekognition) that is being used by law enforcement. Civil rights organizations are unhappy...
