Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on many aspects
of daily life. A range of different measures have been implemented worldwide to reduce the …

This book is about rights and powers in the digital age. It is an attempt to reframe the role of
constitutional democracies in the algorithmic society. By focusing on the European …

Systems incorporating biometric technologies have become ubiquitous in personal,
commercial, and governmental identity management applications. Both cooperative (eg …

Recent research has explored the possibility of extracting ancillary information from primary
biometric traits viz., face, fingerprints, hand geometry, and iris. This ancillary information …

In this paper we discuss the social and ethical issues that arise as a result of digitization
based on six dominant technologies: Internet of Things, robotics, biometrics, persuasive …

Big data has become a great asset for many organizations, promising improved operations
and new business opportunities. However, big data has increased access to sensitive …

Recent research has established the possibility of deducing soft-biometric attributes such as
age, gender, and race from an individual's face image with high accuracy. However, this …

In this paper, we design and evaluate a convolutional autoencoder that perturbs an input
face image to impart privacy to a subject. Specifically, the proposed autoencoder transforms …

The European legal framework is not devoid of norms that are directly or indirectly
applicable to facial recognition technology for identification purposes within law …

Emotional AI is an emerging technology used to make probabilistic predictions about the
emotional states of people using data sources, such as facial (micro)-movements, body …