facial recognition
Identities Aren’t for Sale: TSA Biometrics Technology and the Need for Consumer Consent
Earlier this summer, over a dozen bipartisan senators signed an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill, calling for a pause on additional rollout of the TSA’s facial recognition technology until the program ...
Why Biometrics are Key to a Safe Paris Olympics
Biometrics can be a force for major good in our society and around various facets of the upcoming Paris Olympics, most notably public safety ...
Critical SSH Vulnerability, Facial Recognition Flaws, How to Safely Dispose of Old Devices
In episode 337, we cover “broken” news about the new SSH vulnerability ‘regreSSHion‘ highlighting the vulnerability discovered in the OpenSSH protocol by Qualys and its implications. We then discuss the Detroit Police ...
TSA Facial Recognition Pilot Flies Solo at U.S. Airports
Your Tinfoil Hat is Under Your Seat: Prepare to have your face scanned at airport security. Are the privacy concerns justified? ...
Clearview AI Facial Recognition Fallout, Hacked and Helpless, Is AI Armageddon Upon Us?
Clearview AI provided police with 30 billion scraped images from Facebook, raising concerns over privacy and the potential misuse of facial recognition technology. A victim of a phone hack shares their story ...
Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data
Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity-proofing company ID.me for "deceptive statements" the company and its founder allegedly made over ...
Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Forgotten BIOS Updates, T-Shirt Outwits Facial Recognition
Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion so what does this mean for the privacy and cybersecurity of the platform? More than 100 different Lenovo laptop computers contain firmware-level vulnerabilities which is ...
MoviePass Tracking Your Eyeballs, Shipment Delivery Scams, SIM Swappers Arrested
MoviePass will use facial recognition and eye tracking to make sure you’re watching ads, new types of shipment-delivery scams are being used to spread malware, and details on the arrests of a ...
Biometric Data Protection and Compliance
Biometrics are increasingly becoming a part of everyday life, from unlocking your phone with your face to iris recognition for e-government services or airport security and voice recognition when you talk to ...
Facebook Dumps Face Recognition, Social Engineering Bots, US Sanctions NSO Group
Facebook shuts down their face recognition system and deletes more than a billion facial recognition templates, how phone bots are being used to trick victims into giving up their multi-factor authentication codes, ...
