June 19, 2020 FBI uses T-shirt, tattoo and Vimeo clips to track down alleged arsonist Amazing what online search, social media profiles, a DMV database and cameras everywhere can turn up about us. Naked Security
May 29, 2020 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. Naked Security
May 11, 2020 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. Naked Security
March 19, 2020 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. Naked Security
March 13, 2020 Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says. Naked Security
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. Naked Security
March 04, 2020 S2 Ep29: Facial recognition, malware madness and smart speakers – Naked Security Podcast Listen to the latest episode now! Naked Security
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. Naked Security
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? Naked Security
