Edward Snowden has revealed documents showing that the NSA actively collects millions of images of the faces of citizens each day to be used in a new facial recognition system to identify criminals.
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Swedish start-up Polar Rose plans to make its face recognition service publicly available on the Web in the second quarter of 2008 as it tries to become a must-have tool for sorting visual content. The...
The future of password protection could be here soon, scientists from the University of Houston claim, if a "radically new approach to biometrics" comes to fruition. University of Houston Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor Ioannis Kakadiaris and...
Google has silently added face recognition abilities to its image search. It is now possible to search for images that only contain faces by appending the "&imgtype=face" query string onto the end of a search...
Bioscrypt, a Toronto-based company, has claimed an industry first with its VisionAccess 3D DeskCam – a 3D camera that scans the users face using infrared and visible light for authentication purposes. The security scanning works...
Microsoft has confirmed an issue with the Windows Vista Speech Recognition feature. An issue has been identified publicly where an attacker could use the speech recognition capability of Windows Vista to cause the system to...
After committing a great crime the stereotypical criminal will then jet away to a foreign or far away place where they couldn't possibly be identified by local law enforcement. If the unwitting lawbreaker chooses to...
Ripped from: PcWorld - News Early next year security personnel in major U.S. airports will be equipped with wearable computers, introduced at Comdex here this week, so they can instantly identify suspicious...
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