Former FBI Director James Comey Predicts Agency Will Have No Problem Finding Capitol Rioters
(Washington Time , Jan 13, 2021)
Former FBI Director James B. Comey on Tuesday voiced certainty that federal law enforcement officials will find members of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol during last week’s deadly insurrection. “This is what the FBI does best, which is to find the people responsible and bring them to justice quickly,” Mr. Comey said during an interview aired on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on CBS. “And so if you were there and you participated in the attack, there’s going to be a knock on your door,” Mr. Comey continued. “You should turn yourself in now.”
L.A. Panel OK’s Facial Recognition Oversight Measures
(The Crime Report, Jan 13, 2021)
The Los Angeles Police Commission unanimously approved oversight measures for the use of a facial recognition tool that civil rights groups say is riddled with racial bias and doesn’t enhance police work, reports Courthouse News Service. The L.A. Police Department can authorize its members’ use of the L.A. County Regional Identification System (LACRIS), which compares images collected by officers against a database of nearly nine million mugshots. Law enforcement’s use of facial recognition tools has faced a powerful reckoning in the past year. Concerns from civil rights organizations that facial recognition tools contribute to unlawful mass surveillance and racial profiling led to the technology’s being banned in a number of places, including San Francisco and Boston.
AI Is Being Trained To Identify Faces In The Dark Using Thermal Images
(MobyGeek, Jan 13, 2021)
If this robotic invention comes to life, we could have killer robots with the ability to see and identify faces in the dark. Last week, the corporate research department of the US Army, DEVCOM, published a pre-print paper that documented how they developed an image database to train AI to recognize faces through thermal images.
FBI ‘working Around The Clock’ Using Facial Recognition To Identify Capitol Riot Suspects
(Boston 25, Jan 13, 2021)
The FBI has more than 100,000 pieces of video evidence to sift through from the attack on the Capitol building last Wednesday. “My heart goes out to them, they’re working around the clock right now,” said Kurt Vied, managing director of operations at Signal 88 Security. “I remember what those days are like.” Vied knows what it’s like to identify criminals from surveillance video after he worked as a state trooper and Naval intelligence officer, both for 20 years.
Facebook's Data And Privacy Hub Has Become A 'choose Your Own Adventure' Maze
(Input Mag, Jan 13, 2021)
We’re at a point in society where the words “Facebook” and “data” in the same sentence send shivers up anyone’s spine. After a tumultuous year of battling various kinds of misinformation, Facebook has refocused on user data and privacy. The platform announced an update to its Access Your Information hub, and you really have to want that information to find it. EVOLVING AND REGRESSING — At the peak of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook updated its settings menu in an attempt to placate an outraged public. There were new privacy shortcuts, and downloading/accessing your data became easier.
Railways Introduces Biometric Attendance System In Old Diesel Shed
(UrDupoint, Jan 13, 2021)
The Pakistan Railways has initiated to introduce biometric attendance system in different sections of the department. According to the spokesperson on Wednesday, second biometric system has been installed at the Old Diesel Shed here, which was inaugurated by Divisional Superintendent Lahore Amir Nisar Chaudhry.
Grounds For Lawsuits Based On Biometric Data Retention In Illinois Clarified By Appeals Court
(Biometric Update, Jan 13, 2021)
A ruling by the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has clarified the criteria for standing according to Article III of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, and possibly also expanded it, according to an editorial in Law360. Article III is the clause that deals with the biometric data retention information that companies are obliged to provide to people they collect biometrics from. In Fox v. Dakkota Integrated Systems LLC, as in what seems to be the majority of BIPA cases so far, the informed consent rules are alleged to have been broken by an employee time and attendance system.
Close-set Eyes, Thin Mouth, Sharp Nose — AI Sums Your Face For Political Affiliation
(Biometric Update, Jan 13, 2021)
A researcher claims he can divine the politics of individuals using a facial recognition algorithm. The biometric algorithm, applied by researcher Michał Kosiński, was used on naturalistic images of 1.1 million people, and reportedly was able to correctly identify 72 percent of liberal/conservative face pairs. That compares to 55 percent accuracy for human guesses and 66 percent for assignments based on a 100-question assessment, according to Kosiński’s paper.
New Tech For In-display Biometrics Developed By Qualcomm, Samsung
(Biometric Update, Jan 13, 2021)
Qualcomm has announced that its newest in-display biometric fingerprint sensors will be deployed in smartphones early this year, writes Engadget. The new 3D Sonic Sensor will be significantly larger and is supposed to be 50 percent faster than the previous version. Accordingly, Qualcomm’s new 3D Sonic Sensor will span an area of 64 square millimeters, a 77 percent increase compared to its predecessor’s 36 square millimeters.
