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With $7M raised, Keyo launches a biometric palm verification network • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on November 10, 2022Posted in biometrics, Enterprise, Gadgets, Hardware, KeyoNo Comments

Maybe you’ve heard of Keyo. Perhaps you saw the initial round of press the firm did in 2017 — roughly two years after its founding. Or maybe you saw it pop back in 2020, riding the wave of news around Amazon’s lukewarmly received hand-scanner tech. You may have wondered precisely what’s been going on with […]

UK watchdog warns against AI for emotional analysis, dubs ‘immature’ biometrics a bias risk • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 26, 2022Posted in biometric regulation, biometrics, emotion analysis AI, Government & Policy, ICONo Comments

The UK’s privacy watchdog has warned against use of so-called “emotion analysis” technologies for anything more serious than kids’ party games, saying there’s a discrimination risk attached to applying “immature” biometric tech that makes pseudoscientific claims about being able to recognize people’s emotions using AI to interpret biometric data inputs. Such AI systems ‘function’, if […]