The maker of a defunct cloud photo storage app that pivoted to selling ****** recognition services has been ordered to delete user data and any algorithms trained on it, under the terms of an FTC settlement. The regulator investigated complaints the Ever app — which gained earlier notoriety for using dark patterns to spam users’ ...

Google today announced a new autofill experience for Chrome on mobile that will use biometric authentication for credit card transactions, as well as an updated built-in password manager that will make signing in to a site a bit more straightforward. Chrome already uses the W3C WebAuthn standard for biometric authentication on Windows and Mac. With ...

“Texas is investigating Facebook for possibly running afoul of state laws on the collection of biometric data, according to June documents uncovered by a tech watchdog group,” reports Ashley Gold at Axios.

And the attorney general of Texas may just be on to something.

Facebook users in Illinois recently secured a major settlement over the issue ...

Activists from Fight for the Future prowled the halls of Congress in "jumpsuits with phone strapped to their heads conducting live ****** recognition surveillance" to "show why this tech should be banned."

They worked their way through the Rayburn building (which houses offices for the House of Reps), livestreaming thousands of face scans to Scancongress.com. ...

Every year, the AI Now Institute (previously) publishes a deep, thoughtful, important overview of where AI research is and the ethical gaps in AI's use, and makes a list of a dozen urgent recommendations for the industry, the research community, and regulators and governments.

This year's report is especially important, as algorithmic discrimination, junk ...

The highest court in Pennsylvania has ruled that the state’s law enforcement cannot force suspects to turn over their passwords that would unlock their devices. The state’s Supreme Court said compelling a password from a suspect is a violation of the Fifth Amendment, a constitutional protection that protects suspects from self-incrimination. It’s not an surprising ...

If you've been holding off on getting a new iPhone because Touch ID is gone, you might only have to wait another year. According to Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly testing iPhone prototypes with a new version of its Touch ID fingerprint sensor that's ... ...

Your hands are your ID. New payment system for Whole Foods being tested by Amazon now. ...

Apple's Faceid -- a ****** recognition tool that unlocks mobile devices -- has a countermeasure that is designed to prevent attackers from scanning an sleeping/unconscious (or dead) person's face to unlock their phone, by scanning the face for signs of consciousness.

These countermeasures have a weakness in how they perform proof-of-life checks on users who are ...

Exposed passwords are bad enough. But fingerprint and ****** recognition data? That’s terrifying.  Suprema's Biostar 2 biometric security system came under scrutiny after vpnMentor and two researchers — Noam Rotem and Ran Locar &#821... ...