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  • mental health A Harvard scientist wants to use smartphone data to understand suicides Thom Dunn
  • Business China's Ant Group plans to sell EyeVerify, U.S.-based biometric security firm that scans your eyeballs Xeni Jardin
  • travel Singapore will replace passports with iris and facial scans Mark Frauenfelder
  • Business Texas AG probing Facebook over biometric data collection that may violate state law Xeni Jardin
  • Business Lawsuits accuse Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft of training facial recognition tools with photos of people without consent Xeni Jardin
  • petard Privacy activists spent a day on Capitol Hill scanning faces to prove that scanning faces should be banned Cory Doctorow
  • privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow
  • amazon Amazon testing 'Orville' biometric tech that scans your hands to pay at Whole Foods, stores will use it starting early 2020 Xeni Jardin
  • happy mutants Defeating Apple's Faceid's proof-of-life by putting tape over glasses' lenses Cory Doctorow
  • law Billions on the line as Facebook loses appeal over violating Illinois facial recognition law Cory Doctorow
  • corruption Detroit's police commissioner arrested at commissioners' meeting for demanding answers about secret meetings where facial recognition was planned Cory Doctorow
  • security "Just don't have a face": what it's like to opt-out of US airports' "optional" face recognition Cory Doctorow
  • security Arts&Crafts: bypass a fingerprint scanner with glue and tinfoil Séamus Bellamy
  • security Political candidate's kids use his election flyers to fool his laptop's facial recognition lock Cory Doctorow
  • surveillance EU to create 350m person biometric database for borders, migration and law enforcement Cory Doctorow
  • Technology Your locked phone could verify it's you by listening to your lips move David Pescovitz
  • surveillance American prisoners coerced or tricked into providing voice-prints for use in eternal, secret, unchecked surveillance Cory Doctorow
  • Boing Boing Gadgets Generative adversarial network produces a "universal fingerprint" that will unlock many smartphones Cory Doctorow
  • security Forensics company advises cops not to look at seized Iphones, to avoid facial-recognition lockouts Cory Doctorow
  • law Canadian government investigating mall's use of biometric surveillance Séamus Bellamy
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