Tech 5 peculiar cases of identity theft and how they could have been prevented Andorrie Sachs, a mother of four children, had left her wallet in a car which was later broken into, and her wallet stolen. The thief turned out to be… Read More »ProLinks #60 – Trust, Exercise, Constitution and more
Tech You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype What is less obvious is why Shoshana Zuboff, an emerita professor of Harvard Business School, so uncritically repeats the digital industry’s marketing materials, nor why she never points to… Read More »ProLinks #59 – Terrible men, Facebook and SOCOM
Tech The technical interview practice gap, and how it keeps underrepresented groups out of software engineering MIT gave me was a big stamp on my forehead that, to this day, makes strangers think I’m smart. But there was another, more… Read More »ProLinks #58 – Evangelicals, Screen time and BASE Jumping
Tech Let’s talk about Wayland … This is the fundamental principle of every single product (including security products). If you cannot use a thing, because its “safety” or “security” mechanisms prevents the core functionality from being utilized in the intended… Read More »ProLinks #57 – Truth, Wayland and Sex Tapes
Čo obnáša bakalárka o mobilnej aplikácii? Čo je to parsovanie? Prečo robiť natívne aplikácie? Ako sa študuje na univerzite počas korony? O tomto a o mnohom ďalšom sme sa bavili s Lukášom Andom, našim členom a študentom FIIT STU. NTECast… Read More »NTECast #69 – S Lukášom Andom o Androide a parsovaní
Bill Gates funding Digital ID research The Alan Turing Institute cooperates with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve digital identity solutions. Check out the program page for more details. NIST to benchmark facial recognition on faces with masks Everybody… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #56 – Bill Gates, Digital IDs and the issues of managing identities
A lot has happen in the biometric field in the past two weeks, from facial recognition vendors helping countries fight the spread of the virus to affecting fingerprint scanner market. Also some great guides to facial recognition and interesting look… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #55 – The death of fingerprint scanners
Of course biometric field is influenced by current pandemic, but also good news about facial recognition accuracy and bad (or good, depending on your goal) news about deep fakes. Enjoy! Covid-19 everywhere Biometric shift to face is only being accelerated… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #54 – Covid everywhere
Azure is starting to support biometrics as a replacement for passwords, police departments can get really creative when using facial recognition and why banning facial recognition is missing the point. Enjoy! Azure supports FIDO2 Azure Active Directory will support FIDO2… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #53 – Azure biometric support, criminal investigations and more
EU wants to share criminal databases, Singapore watns to get rid of IDs and Passports and yet another way to fool facial recognition. Enjoy! NEC profile Everybody inside the industry knows NEC, but if you have never heard of this… Read More »ProLinks Biometrics #52 – Great long-forms about NEC and Facial recogniton