Top court orders disclosures in N.J. cops’ use of facial recognition technology

New Jersey’s top court on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to more fully explain how they used the technology in a Jersey City ...
LGBTQ Nation

Facial recognition tech is coming to a queer bar near you — if it’s not already there

A digital rights advocacy group is reupping its call to ban biometric facial recognition technology in bars and other venues ...
KNPR

Some local police have access to an ICE facial recognition app

A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used ...
Biometric Companies

Biometric face morph attack detection breakthroughs offer border security hope

Morphing attack detection (MAD) was a major theme of the European Association for Biometrics’ (EAB’s) workshop on live enrollment last year, and as AI makes sophisticated biometric spoof attacks more ...
9to5Mac

Meta AI is analyzing teen faces but a 12yo kid with a fake mustache fooled it [U]

Meta’s latest attempt to comply with age verification requirements in Europe, Brazil and the US is to roll out AI-powered tech to analyse the faces of teenage users of Facebook and Instagram. The ...
TechCrunch

City Detect, which uses AI to help cities stay safe and clean, raises $13M Series A

City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, announced on Friday a $13 million Series A round led by Prudence Venture Capital ...
Forbes

Taxpayers Face Harder To Detect Scams This Season. Blame AI.

FBI data show a rise in government impersonation fraud. From deepfake video calls to IRS impersonation schemes, AI is reshaping how criminals target everyday taxpayers. We used to worry about ...
Digital Trends

Research suggests you might be too confident in your ability to spot AI faces

Think you can easily identify AI-generated faces? A new study suggests you might be overestimating yourself. Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Australian National ...
Bleeping Computer

What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder’s research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...
The New York Times

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...
Wired

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the face recognition app that federal immigration agents use to identify people in the field, undocumented ...
IEEE

Face Forgery Detection With CLIP-Enhanced Multi-Encoder Distillation

Abstract: With the development of face forgery technology, fake faces are rampant, threatening the security and authenticity of many fields. Therefore, it is of great significance to study face ...