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Advances in Age Verification for Facebook

The social media company, Facebook, has never allowed users below the age of 13 to make accounts on its platform. However, preventing the creation of underage accounts hasn’t always been a successful effort. As Facebook strives to prevent children from utilizing their platforms, new regulations will make it more difficult to engage on the platform without proper age verification. But how will Facebook manage to keep underage users off the platform? The social media company promises to leverage numerous approaches, including new advancements in artificial...

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Implications of Universal Facial Recognition

In my recent Security Week Article, “The Impending Facial Recognition Singularity,” I discuss how it is more difficult to remain anonymous, both online and off, these days. A major reason is that facial recognition systems are becoming cheaper, better, easier to use, and more widely deployed, while social media platforms...