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No facial recognition at 2024 Olympics, French privacy watchdog tells parliament
The French parliament has been urged not to consider deploying facial recognition at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics event by...
 
Its biometric system hobbled, Florida police push for new software
Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Florida are considering upgrades to the state police’s biometric ID system. It reportedly is...
Expanding digital ID, credit system positions Mastercard as commodity broker to the poor
Mastercard is expanding its Community Pass scheme to India where it plans to enroll agricultural workers with digital ID via...
 
Is Kenya’s ‘big Huduma Namba thing’ being adapted to digital-only ID or dropped for a UPI?
“It is not the work of government to issue IDs; it is the work of government to identify Kenyans,” said...
Digital ID investments are active; Blackrock boosts allocation in OneSpan
In a daisy-chain of corporate finance, the world’s biggest asset manager, Blackrock, has increased its ownership of digital agreements security...
 
NIST pushes framework to foster trusted AI
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published new guidance to aid organizations in...
Face biometrics dropped by Verkada in 4 US locales as data protection gains momentum
Legal restrictions on the use of facial recognition have prompted security camera vendor Verkada to shut down the capability in...
 
Biometric partnerships boost KYC in SE Asia, Ukraine as Nigeria and India see gains
KYC providers are targeting businesses in underserved areas to improve access to financial services with technologies like selfie biometrics and...
MOSIP to push into Latin America, Caribbean with identity council collaboration
MOSIP looks set to supply its identity platform to countries across the Caribbean and Latin America with the signing of...
 
NordPass to offer biometric passwordless authentication, Yubico expands program
Password manager firm NordPass has confirmed it will start storing passkeys and offer biometric passwordless authentication to access them. The...
Welcome to high-class Manhattan, facial recognition. This will be interesting
Anyone who thought the story about a major New York City venue owner using facial recognition to nettle attorneys would...
 
US privacy law catches insurer and Amazon; settlement nears in another case
The biometric privacy protection law in the U.S. state of Illinois continues to churn though challenges. A United States district...
Privately bringing on-device biometrics and age estimation to diverse market sectors
The desire to protect children from inappropriate content and goods is bound up with broader concerns about trust in the...
 
Oxford Refugee Studies Centre: mapping the biometrics of movement into and around Europe
A new report maps the technologies such as biometrics in use, being developed or trialled across Europe for tackling the...
  Fingerprint Cards anticipates bounce-back in smartphone biometrics revenues in 2023
  Trust Stamp reveals pleasant product surprise. Now if it can convert the potential
  NYPD fleet to become 360-degree surveillance hubs, cops film Drake concert goers
  SITA enters deal to improve management of passengers’ biometric data
  8.6M fake ID users in UK: GBG report
  Sentry builds Infineon secure elements into biometric cold-storage wallet
Biometrics White Papers
Multispectral imaging (MSI) fingerprint technology
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to validate identities for secure interactions and services such as banking transactions, medication dispensing,...
 
On-demand webinar – Demographic Bias in Facial Liveness Detection: Impact, Measurement, and Mitigation
AI-powered facial liveness detection algorithms can introduce bias the same way matching algorithms can, causing mobile banking services to be...
How can we get personal? Leveraging biometrics for loss prevention — and beyond
With biometrics, retailers can reduce loss and theft, improve customer service and increase operational efficiency. The value of robust identification...
 
Solving fraud in banking with trusted identities
One of the biggest challenges facing banks today is providing secure and trusted services while substantially improving the customer experience....
Events and Webinars
Ethics, biometrics and AI: the good, the bad and the ugly – Why European Parliament’s concerns are probably disproportionate
  January 31, 2023
ID4Africa LiveCast – Civil registration in Africa: Scaling for impact
  February 8, 2023
Aviation Festival Asia 2023
  February 28, 2023 - March 1, 2023
World Police Summit
  March 7, 2023 - March 9, 2023
7th Edition Connected Banking Summit East Africa
  March 7, 2023
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