All articles tagged with #biometric identification
Researchers at La Sapienza University have developed WhoFi, a Wi-Fi-based system that can identify individuals with up to 95.5% accuracy by analyzing signal distortions caused by the human body, raising significant privacy and ethical concerns about passive surveillance without devices.
Researchers at La Sapienza University have developed WhoFi, a system that can identify individuals based on how they disrupt Wi-Fi signals, achieving 95.5% accuracy, raising privacy concerns despite its potential for discreet surveillance and its non-reliance on visual data.
A study shows that finger wrinkles caused by water are consistent and follow blood vessel patterns, suggesting they are unique and stable over time, potentially useful for biometric identification, and are controlled by the nervous system rather than passive water absorption.
The European Union has reached a landmark agreement on rules for artificial intelligence (AI), becoming the first major regulation of its kind in the western world. The EU AI Act categorizes AI into different risk levels and addresses concerns surrounding generative AI models like ChatGPT, as well as the use of biometric identification tools. Germany, France, and Italy have favored self-regulation for generative AI models to avoid stifling Europe's competitiveness. The law follows years of European efforts to regulate AI and aims to address issues such as job displacement, discriminatory language, and privacy infringement.