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Microsoft Removes Facial Recognition Database From Internet

Microsoft Removes Facial Recognition Database From Internet
Microsoft Removes Facial Recognition Database From Internet
June 06, 2019  |  Biometrics

Microsoft has reportedly removed from the internet a database of 10 million faces which it had been using to train facial recognition systems. Get the...

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Amazon SVP On Alexa And The ‘Star Trek’ Connection
Amazon SVP On Alexa And The ‘Star Trek’ Connection
June 06, 2019  |  Amazon

Regulatory scrutiny is indeed coming to bear on big tech firms — along with increased attention on consumer privacy and use of data — but...

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Apple To Give Sign On With Apple More Prominence
Apple To Give Sign On With Apple More Prominence
June 05, 2019  |  Apple

Apple plans to make its “Sign on with Apple” button more prominent, asking developers to put it on top of buttons from Google and Facebook....

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Agency Says FBI’s Facial Recognition Tech Falls Short
Agency Says FBI’s Facial Recognition Tech Falls Short
June 04, 2019  |  Biometrics

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and members of congress say the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology isn’t private or accurate enough, according to a...

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Square Sends Receipts To Wrong Customers
Square Sends Receipts To Wrong Customers
June 04, 2019  |  Cybersecurity

Square, the digital payments company that handles millions of transactions for consumers, sometimes sends the receipts to the wrong people, a situation chronicled in a...

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Tech Giants’ Stocks Sink Amid Regulatory Probes
Tech Giants’ Stocks Sink Amid Regulatory Probes
June 03, 2019  |  Legal & Regulation

Shares in some tech giant companies fell on Monday (June 3) after news of potential oversight and antitrust investigations into the companies, according to a...

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Data Leak Discovered In Marriott’s Management Company
Data Leak Discovered In Marriott’s Management Company
May 31, 2019  |  Cybersecurity

A cybersecurity research team at vpnMentor has discovered that The Pyramid Hotel Group, which manages Marriott and other hotel brands, underwent a data leak exposing...

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First American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach
First American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach
May 30, 2019  |  Legal & Regulation

First American Financial Corp., the title insurance company that exposed the data on hundreds of millions of mortgages dating as far back as 2003, is...

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