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What are biometrics?
In-depth Your face, iris, DNA and typing style can all be used as a password
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Why deepfakes could threaten everything from biometrics to democracy
In-depth Deepfake technology has been rated the most serious AI crime threat, but there are ways to fight back
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Clearview AI investigated over 'social media data scraping'
News The notorious facial recognition firm provides image data to law enforcement agencies
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Google staff demand firm cancels police contracts
News The letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai had been signed by at least 1,666 employees
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Only skin deep: The state of biometric security
In-depth Biometrics were supposed to solve the issue of identification once and for all. Are these systems reliable, accurate and secure?
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Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition tech
News Company hopes that one-year moratorium will be enough for Congress to introduce additional legislation
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Met Police facial recognition plans "a breathtaking assault" on rights
News Plans to use live facial recognition come under fire from privacy campaigners
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Google testing biometric support for Autofill service
News Users may be asked for additional verification before Autofill populates apps and forms with sensitive data
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If not passwords then what?
In-depth Google and Microsoft have both talked up a passwordless future, but what does that mean and is the technology ready to make it happen anytime soon?
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Biometric data leaks and targeted ransomware to dominate 2020 threat landscape
News Expect attackers to go after devices previously overlooked
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Genetics startup Veritas rocked by data breach
News Customer information has been stolen from the DNA-screening company
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Why you should be terrified by biometric technology
Opinion Unless our apathy towards data protection changes, we may soon lose something we can’t replace
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