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01/10/2024

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12/07/2023

Our Director, Ivan Quinn, recently talked online security with Inc. Magazine. Check out the article below!

https://www.inc.com/sean-kim/every-business-owner-should-be-thinking-about-improving-online-security.html

11/22/2023

Check out this article about the importance of improving online security, particularly with biometric technology.

Our leader, Ivan Quinn, is quoted! 👏👏

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02/09/2023

An overview of existing solutions in the field of biometric identification of clients by face by Russian banks is presented.

12/22/2022

Happy Holidays, from the Secure Planet, Inc. family to yours!

11/03/2022

A new report from CyberLink shows American consumer's comfort with and use of face biometrics continues to grow, particularly among younger people.

09/23/2022

Excerpt from the enclosed article:

"It seems it is all good news for the U.S. Traveler Verification Service following an evaluation of privacy policies and practices the service, which supports the government’s Biometric Entry-Exit Program.

Advocates of privacy rights and government oversight have kept a close eye on the program. They are watching for privacy violations, lack of transparency and bias, particularly in the face biometric. If the numbers are to be believed, biases in the system are “undetectable.”

It is important to note that the evaluation was from the Customs and Border Protection agency, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the CBP and the verification service itself."

Read the full article below.

It seems it is all good news for the U.S. Traveler Verification Service following an evaluation of privacy policies and practices the service.

09/01/2022

Secure Planet, Inc. wishes you and your families a restful Labor Day weekend!

07/27/2022

"Bias in face biometrics has decreased as algorithm developers focus their efforts, according to the latest test results from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Exactly how much they have improved, however, is difficult to even measure.

A draft of the NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 8: Summarizing Demographic Differentials has been published for comment, with the agency seeking ways to improve its measurement of variations in biometric accuracy between groups of subjects."

Full article below.

Bias in face biometrics has decreased as algorithm developers focus their efforts, according to the latest test results from NIST.

07/20/2022

Tracking the below. Excerpt from the article:

"The European Association for Biometrics addressed different potential harms related to face biometrics and technologies for digital manipulation of faces in multiple areas in its most recent workshop. The risks and challenges for remote onboarding systems around face morphing and manipulation are also accompanied by ethical and social considerations."

Manipulated faces threaten trust in remote biometrics, new legal battlegrounds EAB experts discuss Jul 19, 2022, 12:40 pm EDT | Chris Burt Categories Biometric R&D  |  Biometrics News  |  Facial Recognition   The European Association for Biometrics addressed different potential harms related to...

07/07/2022

Article discussing Virginia’s recent reversal on its ban of facial recognition for police use.

Virginia's new law lets police use facial recognition if they have “reasonable suspicion" less than one year after the state banned police use of the tech.

03/29/2022

Interesting update here from the head of the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) at DHS.

Excerpt:

'“Right now, individually, we use finger, we use face and we use iris, but we don’t necessarily merge all of those together to try to improve accuracy,” Lyon told an audience during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2022 Border Protection Innovations and Technology Forum. “And so that’s one of the areas that we’re working on is to be able to do that.”'

Biometric data and technologies are being deployed within multiple federal agencies to boost the accuracy of identity verification and free up human decision makers for other, more complex and cognitive tasks, according to federal officials. However, an expansion of capabilities is necessary to full...