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Biometric tracking increasingly employed by government and others during stressful time
Personal data is being widely scooped up during the pandemic and, while it can be legitimately needed for contract tracing and other safety reasons, we should be aware of the privacy risks involved. Research by AI Now takes an in-depth look at the extent and implications of biometric tracking.
--Susan Raab, Editor
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FB open-source platform designed to help engineers with differential privacy
Facebook's Opacus tool, offers new approach
Facebook wants to make it easier for engineers to use differential privacy in AI, with a new tool that limits impact on the primary dataset. Opacus, which trains PyTorch models with differential privacy, uses an algorithm that centers instead on intervening with parameter gradients. This follows recent announcements from Google to open source the differential privacy library, and Microsoft, which released WhiteNoise for Azure and GitHub.
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Your face as a digital token - good idea?
PopID users' faces are key to payment & entry
California start-up PopID has just launched a face-based payments network and a facial ID tool, called PopEntry, to verify people at businesses and universities. The company anticipates 3,000 installations in U.S. states by the end of 2020. People enrolled with PopID can use their face as ID for a range of applications, including for keys, key cards, facilities access, payments and loyalty programs.
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