BioBind binds biometric deduplication to zero-knowledge authentication
A prototype rejects tested composition attacks; its unlinkable circuit uses 31,445 constraints and about 305,000 gas.
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A prototype rejects tested composition attacks; its unlinkable circuit uses 31,445 constraints and about 305,000 gas.
Smartphone ultrasound and video motion are fused into watermarks meant to survive forgery and editing.
LLM reasoning boosts phone-blowing biometrics to 99.46% accuracy on 50 participants.
Fixed-text login reaches 3.77% EER; free-text monitoring reports 10.05% EER on Buffalo and GREYC data.
Complaints in four EU countries allege keystroke logging and mandatory face video; Scale calls the claims inaccurate.
A Markov chain picks fingerprint, iris, or face factors, with AES-128 used to protect stored data.
Across more than 600 participants, a 16-year threshold reached up to 93.8% accuracy.
Authors quantize GhostFaceNet so extraction, storage, and matching stay encrypted and call the design the first end-to-end MPC system of its kind.
A geometric attack using only accept or reject, plus a facial diffusion prior, cuts queries by about five times.
Researchers measure how rotation-invariant shape descriptors both leak enrolled surfaces and admit distant decoy matches.
Study shows PolyProtect can irreversibly protect face embeddings with shared system-specific keys, enabling protected-domain de-duplication.
British Transport Police's £320,000 face-scanning pilot produced no correct matches.

A 2026 ranking puts iProov, BioCatch, and Entrust/Onfido atop biometric authentication for liveness and deepfake defense.
Eight-week keystroke study finds fixed-text biometric templates age about 1.7 error points per week across four matchers.
MIRAGE masks full-body biometrics on smart glasses and restores footage only with consent.

Viral AI actress Tilly Norwood's video hotline requires biometric face-scan age checks and non-optional emotion inference, raising significant privacy concerns.
A Siamese ResNet identifies people from ECG under exercise stress and across sessions at low error rates.
Compact iris presentation-attack detection models under 0.3M parameters show APCER rising 17-30 percentage points against unseen attack instruments, indicating limited deployment readiness.
CARPM-FIQA stabilizes face-image quality scores by accumulating relative point margins across training.

A report catalogs 88 ID-verification breaches since 2011 exposing at least 2.15 billion records, with 41 incidents leaking irreplaceable biometric data and documents.
RightCrowd launched Pass, a credentialing platform unifying mobile, physical, and biometric access credentials, cutting credential revocation from 12.2 minutes to under 60 seconds.
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