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Huge FBI facial recognition database falls short on privacy and accuracy, auditor says

16

Jun

2016

The FBI has fallen short on assessing the privacy risks and accuracy of a huge facial recognition database used by several law enforcement agencies, a government auditor has said. A new report, released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office Wednesday, shows the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology is “far greater” than previously understood, said Senator […]

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Faster, harder, Twitter: millions of passwords leaked

10

Jun

2016

Everyone likes Twitter. Well, okay, maybe not everyone, but at least 310 million users visit the microblogging platform monthly. And now these 310 million have to consider changing their Twitter password. This is not because they are as insecure as 123456 or something like that, but because a database of 379 million Twitter accounts with […]

Category Identity theft Privacy protection Written by Blog 0 Comments

How DARPA crushed the hopes for touch-based authentication

08

Jun

2016

Smartphones head towards touch-based continuous authentication – a type of permanent identity validation that is also passive, since it does not hinder in any way other human-phone interactions that may be taking place during the same time. That would eliminate the risks of intrusion currently at the disposal of cyber-criminals once they bypass the screen […]

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