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If you're of European descent, there's a good chance that you can be found.
For the first time, police have compelled a suspect to unlock his phone using Face ID. The case reveals an interesting inversion: More advanced password technology is less protected from police seizure.
Restaurant chain faces class-action lawsuit in Illinois for breaking BIPA state law.
Biometrics are moving way beyond fingerprints: To fight fraud, companies are building databases on people’s behaviors and movements.
India’s biometric ID system is a cautionary tale.
Just beyond the automatic sliding doors of the Robert W. Van Houten Library, you’ll find shelves teeming with books, dissertations and literary journals, a front…
Exclusive: The data leak affects potentially every Indian citizen subscribed to the database.
Shoppers at the Chinook Centre, a mall in Calgary, Canada, have been unwittingly scanned by face recognition software.
Days after the ACLU released a damning report on Amazon’s face recognition product Rekognition, Amazon’s general manager of AI, Dr. Matt Wood, countered its findings in a blog post. The ACLU used Rekognition to scan the faces of all 535 members of Congress, finding the software mistook 28 of them for suspected…
It’s not just about privacy.
Ben Williamson ponders the controversy of using genetic data from students to personalize education.
Nature - Yaniv Erlich shows how research participants can be identified from 'anonymous' DNA.
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) companies have proliferated in the past several years. Based on an analysis of genetic material submitted by consume
A reporter’s effort to erase her genetic footprint gets snared in a thicket of policies and rules.
It's a powerful tool, but recent incidents have shown that there's no winning with facial recognition.
As Facebook faces a lawsuit over its facial recognition technology, a look at the rules around our biometric data.
UIDAI says it is the sole custodian of citizen information. But state governments and police are using Aadhaar numbers to consolidate data, which is being stored without any coherent data security policy and is accessed by private players.