Category: biometrics
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Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks
Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks Some AI-based video age-verification checks can be fooled with a fake mustache. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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Smart Glasses for the Authorities
Smart Glasses for the Authorities ICE is developing its own version of smart glasses, with facial recognition tied to various databases. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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The Wegman’s Supermarket Chain Is Probably Using Facial Recognition
The Wegman’s Supermarket Chain Is Probably Using Facial Recognition The New York City Wegman’s is collecting biometric information about customers. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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Failures in Face Recognition
Failures in Face Recognition Interesting article on people with nonstandard faces and how facial recognition systems fail for them. Some of those living with facial differences tell WIRED they have undergone multiple surgeries and experienced stigma for their entire lives, which is now being echoed by the technology they are forced to interact with. They…
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Another Move in the Deepfake Creation/Detection Arms Race
Another Move in the Deepfake Creation/Detection Arms Race Deepfakes are now mimicking heartbeats In a nutshell Recent research reveals that high-quality deepfakes unintentionally retain the heartbeat patterns from their source videos, undermining traditional detection methods that relied on detecting subtle skin color changes linked to heartbeats. The assumption that deepfakes lack physiological signals, such as…