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Entering a password each time you need to access an account can get cumbersome over time, especially if you’ve been working from home in the same pair of sweatpants for the last two years, going through the same routine from morning to night. Isn’t life dragging on enough? I digress. Microsoft envisions a password-free world, which I have to admit is appealing. The company is now letting you access your Microsoft account without typing in a password, though you’ll still need the Microsoft Authenticator app or a Windows Hello fingerprint or face to log in. You can also use an external security key or enable two-factor authentication through SMS or email.

More and more devices are using facial recognition technology these days and some scientists in Israel say they have discovered a way to bypass a large percentage of them by basically faking your face. The team of computer scientists at Tel Aviv University calls this method the “master face” which uses artificial intelligence technologies to create a facial template. That facial template can consistently fool and unlock identity verification systems.
In their research paper, Scott Schaffer with Blade Technologies says the scientists wrote that the face construct could hypothetically be paired with deepfake technologies. He explained that would allow the image to be “animated’, fooling the “liveliness detection methods” that are designed to assess whether a subject is living or not.

Today, conversational AI is enabling voice technology to evaluate the biometrics of voice. Not only can it detect and understand what a person is saying, but voice technology tools are also beginning to pick up accents. The technology can pick up words and break them up into segments of several tones, which are analyzed to understand vocal patterns. In fact, the global conversational AI market is expected to reach US$13.9 billion by 2025. North America is projected to hold the largest market size due to increasing demand for enhanced customer retention initiatives. At the same time, more players are emerging in the industry, especially smaller start-ups that enabling more conversational AI use cases.

The digital shift quickly morphed into the connected economy, and in that online global ecosystem, identity is at least half the battle when it comes to securing against cybertheft. In The Next Wave: The Business Adoption Of Digital Fraud Solutions Playbook, a PYMNTS and Equifax collaboration, researchers examined the priorities and concerns of businesses today around digital identity innovation, taking the pulse of more than surveyed 300 decision-makers at a variety of business from auto dealers, banks and credit unions to P2P alt-credit lenders. Company size and age are a factor in how businesses rate the urgency of digital identity solutions in 2021.

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Urgent action is needed as it can take time to assess and address the serious risks this technology poses to human rights, warned the High Commissioner: “The higher the risk for human rights, the stricter the legal requirements for the use of AI technology should be”. Ms. Bachelet also called for AI applications that cannot be used in compliance with international human rights law, to be banned. “Artificial intelligence can be a force for good, helping societies overcome some of the great challenges of our times. But AI technologies can have negative, even catastrophic, effects if they are used without sufficient regard to how they affect people’s human rights”

Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
The World of Identity Under One Roof Opening times are:
Tue 5 Oct | Conference: 08:50 - 17:15 • Exhibition: 09:00 - 18:00
Wed 6 Oct | Conference: 09:00 - 17:00 • Exhibition: 10:00 - 16:15

Connect:ID is a world class identity conference and exhibition, showcasing practical implementations of trusted identity solutions, and highlighting how disruptive technology and policy decisions are driving much needed change. Connect:ID is central to Governments, financial institutions, corporate end users, systems integrators, researchers, consultants, national and industry-focused media.