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Worldcoin wants to provide ‘proof of personhood’ in an AI-filled future, but critics and governments are unimpressed
This isn’t the first time Australians’ Medicare numbers have been exposed.
Even though they cover most of our features, face masks are no match for our highly-evolved capacity to recognise friends.
Initial research found witness pupils got bigger when correctly identifying a criminal.
While forensic scientists mostly use fingerprints, dental records and DNA to identify human remains, they have many other techniques in their forensic toolkit. How many have you heard of?
During a military mission, whether in peace or in war, the inability to identify an object within an area of operation represents a significant problem.
Research is increasingly proving fingerprints can be used for much more than identifying people.
One Nation’s proposed national identity card is unviable and likely unconstitutional, so should not be entertained.
Some people have a remarkable aptitude for recognising a face – are you one of them?
There’s a concern that images posted on social media run the risk of disrupting the accurate identification of people allegedly involved in a crime.
The need to accurately identify people is important for security (and for not embarrassing yourself by hugging strangers). It was cited as the main reason for excluding and restricting the movements of…
How can we ensure that someone is who they say they are? How can be sure that the person in our system, both digitally speaking or physically in front of us, is who whom they claim to be? You may think…
Objective details given by eyewitness testimony are less likely to be distorted than subjective details, a new study has…
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