Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over TSA Facial Recognition Technology
(WJZY, Dec 20, 2024)
Merkley and a bipartisan group of senators say there’s not enough oversight. They sent a letter last month to the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General to investigate and report to Congress whether there are “sufficient safeguards in place to protect passenger privacy.”
Canada Border Agency Has Launched Facial Recognition App to Track Migrants
(Toronto Star, Dec 20, 2024)
ReportIn app will help track permanent residents, foreign nationals and refugee claimants required to report to border agents. Critics have concerns.
How Will Australia's Under-16 Social Media Ban Work? We Asked the Law's Enforcer
(Jefferson Public Radio, Dec 19, 2024)
We do want to make sure there is not discrimination, or bias, and some of these technologies are less accurate depending on the kind of face being scanned. I met with an age assurance provider last week in Washington, D.C., who is using an AI-based system that looks at hand movements and has a 99% success rate.
Pakistan Launching National Face Biometrics Authentication Service
(Biometric Update, Dec 20, 2024)
Earlier this week, the Pakistani government presented the Digital Nation Pakistan Bill to the National Assembly in a milestone for the country’s DPI efforts. The Act’s seminal proposal is the construction of a national digital identity system. Pakistan’s ambitions have received significant funding via a $78 million World Bank project, the aforementioned DEEP.
Privacy, Security Clash as Companies Seek Proof Users are Human
(Bloomberg Tax, Dec 20, 2024)
A growing array of authentication solutions, dubbed “liveness detection” tools, has followed the explosion of remote customer onboarding and staff hiring—accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic and accompanied by a new era of social engineering and digital impersonations, recently using artificial intelligence. New York’s Department of Financial Services advised companies in October and November to deploy identity authentication tools that can withstand AI-generated deepfakes, including technology with liveness detection or texture analysis.
