New York City lawmakers are pushing to ban private businesses from using biometric tools like voice and facial recognition software to track the public. The City Council on Monday held a hearing on ...

There’s a familiar pattern in security that Robbie Sinclair, former head of security for Country Energy in New South Wales, Australia, once summed up perfectly: “Security is always excessive until ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

PhonePe now supports biometric UPI payments using fingerprint or Face ID, following NPCI guidelines. To enable it, open PhonePe, go to Profile > Manage Payments > Biometric Pay, select your bank, and ...

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. The agency is ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

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The Onondaga County Legislature is considering a new law to protect the public from how biometric data is captured, following revelations that Wegmans supermarkets were collecting such information on ...

Artificial intelligence companies are threatening to shun Illinois and build their most advanced data centers in Wisconsin and Indiana if the state doesn’t dilute its privacy law, the toughest in the ...

Walking into a grocery store with the goal of saving money and eating well can feel like an impossible balancing act. Prices fluctuate constantly, sale signs compete for attention, inflation has ...

The Transportation Security Administration is looking to revise its biometric data collection and storage practices, according to a notice posted last week in the Federal Register. TSA is considering ...