March 08, 2020

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.

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March 03, 2020

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.

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February 28, 2020

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?

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February 21, 2020

Washington state Senate passes bill to rein in facial recognition

The bill now goes to the House, which has a stiffer competing bill pending that would call for a 3.5 year moratorium.

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February 07, 2020

Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

It's my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we're just doing what Google Search does.

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January 31, 2020

Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit

A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it's finally done churning through the courts.

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January 28, 2020

Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.

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January 22, 2020

Nobody boogies quite like you

Our unique dancing style can be used by a machine-learning model to ID us, regardless of musical genre. Unless it's Metal. We all headbang.

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January 17, 2020

Facial recognition is real-life ‘Black Mirror’ stuff, Ocasio-Cortez says

"People think they're going to put on a cute filter and have puppy dog ears, and not realize that that data's being collected."

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