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Biometrics in the news
2019-08-14 18:20:26.322546+02 by
Dan Lyke
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As summer camps turn on facial recognition, parents demand: More smiles, please. Summer camps are using facial recognition to automatically send parents pictures of their kids involved in various activities.
Unrelated:
Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms — Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database:
The researchers said the sheer scale of the breach was alarming because the service is in 1.5m locations across the world and because, unlike passwords being leaked, when fingerprints are leaked, you can’t change your fingerprint.
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