From Blue Whale to Korean love game: Ghaziabad sisters' suicide highlights global crackdown to ban teens from social media

Preliminary reports from local authorities indicate the tragedy is linked to the girls' alleged addiction to a task-based ...

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to ...
Biometric Update

ICE, FBI expand facial recognition use to protest investigations

Federal use of facial recognition and related surveillance technologies has expanded decisively into the monitoring of ...

Facial recognition technology used by police is now very accurate – but public understanding lags behind

There are lots of examples of facial recognition’s role in helping police to locate wanted and vulnerable people. But as ...

“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition

A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs ...

The FBI Is Using Facial Recognition To Identify ICE Protestors In Social Media Videos

The FBI has charged multiple people with crimes like vandalism after determining their identities using the controversial technology, according to court records.
Biometric Update

ICE’s facial recognition app is new, but the NEC tech behind it is well known

NEC facial recognition algorithms have consistently placed among the most accurate tested in NIST’s Face Recognition Vendor ...
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Infostealers without borders: macOS, Python stealers, and platform abuse

How modern infostealers target macOS systems, leverage Python‑based stealers, and abuse trusted platforms and utilities to ...