ACLU Sues Clearview AI Over Faceprint Collection, Sale

The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU has sued a New York-based startup for amassing a database of biometric face-identification data of billions of people and selling it to third parties without their consent or knowledge The U.S. citizens’-rights watchdog organization has filed suit in the...

Researchers Uncover Novel Way to De-anonymize Device IDs to Users' Biometrics

Researchers have uncovered a potential means to profile and track online users using a novel approach that combines device identifiers with their biometric information. The details come from a newly published research titled "Nowhere to Hide: Cross-modal Identity Leakage between Biometrics and...

Covid-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears

In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, facial recognition technology is being adopted globally as a way to track the virus’ spread. But privacy experts worry that, in the rush to implement COVID-19 tracking capabilities, important and deep rooted issues around data collection and...

Biometric data processing and storage system threats

Initially, digital biometric data processing systems were used primarily by government agencies and special services police, customs, etc.. However, the rapid evolution of information technology has made biometric systems accessible for 'civil' use. They are increasingly becoming part of our...

Australia Proposes Facial Recognition to Watch Porn

The Australian government has proposed using facial recognition to verify the age of people wanting to access pornography online. Unlike in the U.S., Australian law actually doesn’t prohibit minors from visiting adult sites, so the facial-recognition measure would be part of changing this policy...

This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from...

CVE-2019-13604

There is a short key vulnerability in HID Global DigitalPersona formerly Crossmatch U.are.U 4500 Fingerprint Reader v24. The key for obfuscating the fingerprint image is vulnerable to brute-force attacks. This allows an attacker to recover the key and decrypt that image using the key. Successful...

CVE-2019-13604

The CVE applies to HID Global DigitalPersona U.are.U 4500 Fingerprint Reader v24. The vulnerability is a short key used to obfuscate fingerprint images; this key is vulnerable to brute-force attacks, allowing an attacker to recover the key and decrypt the image, which leads to a biometric informa...

On Surveillance in the Workplace

Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction and flagging tools that aim to predict characteristics or behaviors of employees or that are designed...

Vault 7 Leak: CIA Collected Biometric Data from Partner Agencies

By Waqas New Vault 7 Documents by WikiLeaks Show How CIA Collected This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vault 7 Leak: CIA Collected Biometric Data from Partner Agencies...

Micro Market Vendor Warns of Bankcard And Biometric Data Breach

Avanti Markets, which specializes in self-serve food kiosks typically located in company breakrooms, said an undisclosed number of its 1.5 million customers may have had their personal and bankcard data compromised along with stored biometric data. The company, based in Tukwila, WA, said on July ...

Self-Service Food Kiosk Vendor Avanti Hacked

Avanti Markets, a company whose self-service payment kiosks sit beside shelves of snacks and drinks in thousands of corporate breakrooms across America, has suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to those payment devices, the company...

Police Scan 117 Million Driving Licence Photos for Face Recognition Database

Your driver's license photo could be scarier than it actually looks — Well, here's why: With the help of state driver's license data, U.S. law enforcement agencies have created a huge a face-recognition database of more than 117 Million American adults that are regularly scanned in the course of...

Fingerprint Validity Driver and Synaptics Fingerprint Driver Information Disclosure

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-4281 Potential Impact: Disclosure of biometric data Severity: Low Summary Description: A vulnerability has been identified in two drivers associated with biometric fingerprint scanners used on some Lenovo systems that could allow an attacker with local administrative...

Fingerprint Validity Driver and Synaptics Fingerprint Driver Information Disclosure - Lenovo Support US

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