US Election Likely to Be a Missed Opportunity to Advance Digital ID Policy
(Biometric Update, Oct 04, 2024)
“The consensus among our IBIA Members is that the most effective and judicious approach to comprehensive legislation and regulation surrounding digital ID is consistent with our positions regarding those around data privacy as well as biometric technologies and other aspects of identity management,” Tappan wrote in a subsequent email. That legislation should be a federal, nationwide approach which preempts individual state and local laws, avoiding the cost and confusion around “the patchwork of state-based approaches to regulating privacy, PII and identity issues.”
Seeking the Biometric Bill of Rights
(Full Circle, Oct 07, 2024)
Michael is a professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. With a joint appointment in ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, her research interests converge in the space where biotechnology and cybersecurity meet. Michael’s global collaborations have given her a unique window of insight into how biometric data is collected, stored and utilized.
Police Seldom Disclose Use of Facial Recognition Despite False Arrests
(The Washington Post, Oct 06, 2024)
Police departments in 15 states provided The Post with rarely seen records documenting their use of facial recognition in more than 1,000 criminal investigations over the past four years. According to the arrest reports in those cases and interviews with people who were arrested, authorities routinely failed to inform defendants about their use of the software — denying them the opportunity to contest the results of an emerging technology that is prone to error, especially when identifying people of color. In fact, the records show that officers often obscured their reliance on the software in public-facing reports, saying that they identified suspects “through investigative means” or that a human source such as a witness or police officer made the initial identification.
Mark Smith: We Should All Be Worried About Facial Recognition
(The Herald Scotland, Oct 07, 2024)
The police could, if we allowed them to, fingerprint every single one of us after a murder. They could check all our bank accounts for stolen money. They could look at all our internet histories for illegal content. Doing these things would help catch criminals and reduce crime. But the right to prevent the police going too far matters just as much as the duty of the police to investigate crime. More. It matters more.
Doctors’ Body Objects Government’s Plan to Implement Facial Recognition-Based Attendance System
(The Hindu, Oct 07, 2024)
In a letter to the Chief Secretary, the SDPGA’s general secretary A. Ramalingam questioned the need to implement such an attendance system for doctors working in the Directorates of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Medical and Rural Health Services.
