Canadians have been unlocking iPhones with their fingerprint since 2013 and are sometimes exposed to facial recognition software before boarding planes, but…
They installed electronic tiles from P.E.I.’s Stepscan Technologies at their university lab and in the lobby of Fredericton’s Cyber Centre to generate a pixel-by-pixel heat map of the pressure distribution of someone’s feet as they walk.
The methods often leave people rummaging through bags for keys and cards, trying to recall passwords or seeking help from system administrators or security guards, when they’re without their means of entry.Article content “It would be really helpful for security reasons and it can be used for airports or for entrance to a building,” she said.
Ahmad has also seen Illinois, Texas and Washington, where he’s found most class actions around biometrics are happening, regulate the collection and use of such data.Concerns around biometrics are part of why Scheme’s team has adopted a careful approach to its research.
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