Biometrics

The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls

The future of battlefield communications is resting comfortably near your back gums.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recognition Boarding

Airport officials rolled out the system expecting to increase security and decrease boarding times.

  • By Aaron Boyd

FBI Looking For Tech to Foil Fingerprint Obliteration

The FBI wants artificial intelligence tools that can ID people with burnt, cut or otherwise altered fingerprints.

  • By Jack Corrigan

DC Airport First In Nation to Catch Suspected Imposter Using Facial Biometrics

After three days of operation, Washington Dulles International Airport’s biometric cameras identified a man allegedly attempting to use someone else’s passport to enter the U.S.

  • By Aaron Boyd

This Desk Changes When It Senses Your Stress At Work

The desk is a combination of technology, psychology, and design.

  • By Madis Kabash, Quartz
U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor Erik Gordon, left, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo. U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor Erik Gordon, left, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo.

CBP Rolls Out Facial Recognition at Silicon Valley Airport

International travel at the Mineta San José International Airport has doubled in recent years.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Tomorrow’s Intelligent Malware Will Attack When It Sees Your Face

IBM researchers have injected viruses with neural nets, making them stealthier and precisely targetable.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

What Government Could Learn from Payment Companies About Identity Management

If someone finds or steals a government Personal Identity Verification card, it’s possible that they could access sensitive or secret information during a very limited window before its loss was reported or discovered.

  • By John Breeden II
Security cameras are mounted on the side of a building overlooking an intersection in midtown Manhattan. Security cameras are mounted on the side of a building overlooking an intersection in midtown Manhattan.

Surveillance Cameras Will Soon Divine Your Personality from Eye Movements

Machine-learning techniques promise to make biometric data far more useful for intelligence gathering.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

The ACLU Used Amazon’s Facial Recognition And It Labelled Congress Members As Criminals

The ACLU is using this demonstration to call for a moratorium on police use of facial-recognition technology.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

AI Scanner Can Distinguish Whether An Iris is Living or Dead

No word if the technology works on zombies.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith

Microsoft Wants Congress to Regulate Facial Recognition

One of these metrics for regulation could be ensuring the technology works similarly for all

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

Orlando Does an About-Face on Facial Recognition Technology

The city’s police department is moving forward with the second phase of testing weeks after the initial pilot program ended amid concerns raised by civil liberties groups.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

The Smartphone Fingerprint Scanner Gets a Heat-Sensing Upgrade

A new way to determine if it's actually you trying to access your phone.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Tech Companies Just Woke Up to a Big Problem With Their AI

AI and facial recognition are colliding in an alarming way.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

CEO of a Facial Recognition Company: The Tech is Too Volatile to Give to Law Enforcement

A malfunction could mean wrongful identification of an innocent person.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz
A customs agent, left, adjusts a face recognition camera as he screens a family after their recent international flight arrival at Orlando International Airport, Thursday, June 21, 2018. A customs agent, left, adjusts a face recognition camera as he screens a family after their recent international flight arrival at Orlando International Airport, Thursday, June 21, 2018.

U.S. Customs Expects Face Scanning to Speed Up Security at Florida Airport

Using Homeland Security’s biometric program, one airport is increasing security while shortening lines.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Facial Recognition Is Here to Stay. And We Should All Probably Accept It

The public can still push for transparency and pressure for ethical guidelines to be set in place.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

Eyes Closed in Photos? Facebook AI Can 'Open' Them

The AI can paint new eyes over your blinking ones.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

A County Using Amazon’s Facial Recognition Worried About Giving Off “A Big Brother Vibe”

The county has reportedly used the facial recognition tools about 20 times per day.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz