ant group China's Ant Group plans to sell EyeVerify, U.S.-based biometric security firm that scans your eyeballs Xeni Jardin

indentity Singapore will replace passports with iris and facial scans Mark Frauenfelder

biometric data Texas AG probing Facebook over biometric data collection that may violate state law Xeni Jardin

biometrics Lawsuits accuse Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft of training facial recognition tools with photos of people without consent Xeni Jardin

fight for the future Privacy activists spent a day on Capitol Hill scanning faces to prove that scanning faces should be banned Cory Doctorow

belt and road AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

whole foods Amazon testing 'Orville' biometric tech that scans your hands to pay at Whole Foods, stores will use it starting early 2020 Xeni Jardin

faceid Defeating Apple's Faceid's proof-of-life by putting tape over glasses' lenses Cory Doctorow

class action lawsuits Billions on the line as Facebook loses appeal over violating Illinois facial recognition law Cory Doctorow

willie burton Detroit's police commissioner arrested at commissioners' meeting for demanding answers about secret meetings where facial recognition was planned Cory Doctorow

beware of the leopard "Just don't have a face": what it's like to opt-out of US airports' "optional" face recognition Cory Doctorow

OnePlus Arts&Crafts: bypass a fingerprint scanner with glue and tinfoil Séamus Bellamy

something you have Political candidate's kids use his election flyers to fool his laptop's facial recognition lock Cory Doctorow

cir EU to create 350m person biometric database for borders, migration and law enforcement Cory Doctorow

lips Your locked phone could verify it's you by listening to your lips move David Pescovitz

investigator pro American prisoners coerced or tricked into providing voice-prints for use in eternal, secret, unchecked surveillance Cory Doctorow

dictionary attacks Generative adversarial network produces a "universal fingerprint" that will unlock many smartphones Cory Doctorow

elcomsoft Forensics company advises cops not to look at seized Iphones, to avoid facial-recognition lockouts Cory Doctorow

Cadillac Fairview Canadian government investigating mall's use of biometric surveillance Séamus Bellamy

Big Brother is Watching You Canada increases biometric monitoring of foreign nationals Séamus Bellamy