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PromptPrint: Behavioral Biometrics Through Natural Language Prompting in LLMs

Announce Type: new Abstract: Authorship attribution research has traditionally focused on long-form, expressive texts; however, interactions with large language models (LLMs) are typically brief and task-driven prompts. This raises a fundamental question: do such prompts contain a stable, author-identifiable, and distinctive signal? We introduce PromptPrint, a systematic study of prompt-based identity, the hypothesis that a user's habitual vocabulary, syntax, and discourse patterns form a...

Toward Accessible Mobile Money: A Voice-Driven, Biometrically Secured USSD Automation Framework for Visually Impaired Users

Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial inclusion has expanded significantly across Africa through mobile money services delivered primarily via USSD technology. However, visually impaired individuals continue to face accessibility and security barriers when conducting financial transactions. Current USSD systems are not designed for non-visual interaction, forcing users to rely on third-party assistance even for PIN entry, thereby increasing fraud exposure and reducing transaction confidence.

[Written Question] Biometrics: Disability

Question by: Baroness Shawcross-Wolfson Answering Body: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Question: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the barriers faced by people who use non-invasive ventilators in completing facial recognition-based identity verification; and what assessment they have made of the impact on disabled peop

[Written Question] Biometrics: Data Protection

Mr Paul Kohler Answering Body: Home Office Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on the storage, security, sharing, and deletion of data generated through the use of live facial recognition technology.

[Written Question] Police: Biometrics

Mr Paul Kohler Answering Body: Home Office Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure (a) lawful and (b) proportionate use of live facial recognition technology by police forces in England and Wales.

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

Meta's smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account. Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella ), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to match the models, a write path that stages biometric records to disk, a fully wired...

Visual AI tracks nearly 100 wildlife species to improve conservation

Visual AI tracks nearly 100 wildlife species to improve conservation Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Wildlife research projects worldwide could benefit from a new AI system which can automatically find, name, and follow individual animals in footage. A University of Bristol team working on Animal Biometrics and AI for Conservation have been key contributors to the SA-FARI (Segment Anything in Footage of Animals for Recognition and Identification) project, developed...

Delays from new EU border system may not ‘stabilise’ for two years, official says

Fears that EES checks requiring personal information and biometrics will cause summer of travel chaos in EuropeBusiness live – latest updatesThe new EU border system that has triggered hours-long delays at big airports may not “stabilise” for two years, an official has warned. Uku Särekanno, a director of the EU border agency Frontex, said some member states were “struggling” to adopt the entry/exit system (EES), which requires passengers from non-EU countries to register their personal...

Europe’s chaotic Entry/Exit System could take up to two years to stabilise, EU official warns

Two months after Europe’s new biometric border checks launched, long queues and inconsistent procedures continue to frustrate travellers. Now, a Frontex official has warned that the troubled Entry/Exit System could take up to two years to fully stabilise. Europe’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) was meant to modernise border controls, but months after its launch, chaos and confusion continue to plague travellers.