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Everyone has an opinion about AI policies and regulations
The European Union’s plenary vote on the AI Act is June 14, but a political skirmish around remote biometric surveillance...
 
Facial recognition used to identify victims of deadly train accident in India
Railway authorities have used facial recognition technology to determine the identity of at least 50 dead bodies from the recent...
EU rights agency says impact of large biometric systems ‘partly unknown’
Europe has had a difficult 2022: The war in Ukraine has brought a flood of refugees to the European Union...
 
ID platform from Vouched, Zenoo helping Ukrainian refugees access vital services
Displaced persons from Ukraine are able to enjoy safe passage and settlement anywhere in the world thanks to an identity...
Lawsuit alleges facial recognition contract breach, amid questions about litigant
Motorola-owned brand Vigilant may be anything but, says a legal challenge filed by a mysterious company called Likeness Data LLC....
 
Trust Stamp forced to sell shares again; cuts value of a previous share sale
Six months after reporting a fiscal 2022 jump in revenue and losses, digital identity services firm Trust Stamp is seeking...
Pilot phase of biometric vaccination system for Kenyan newborns goes live
The rollout of a biometric system to manage the vaccination journey of children below the age of five years in...
 
Google Photos now suggesting names when no face visible
It may not exactly be back-of-the-head recognition, or male-pattern-baldness biometrics, but Google Photos appears to have developed a way to...
Judges decide cops can’t use black-box biometrics systems in criminal case
In an enforceable blow for transparency in facial recognition, an appeals court in the U.S. state of New Jersey has...
 
Student biometrics to be integrated into UAE population registry
Phase 2 of the ‘Closer to You’ initiative was recently launched by the UAE Ministry of Education and the Federal...
‘Being open’ for achieving global interoperability in digital public infrastructure
By Jaume Dubois,  CEO of ID30 In a digital world that connects everyone for everything, establishing global interoperability across entities,...
 
Veridas adds anonymous age assurance in regulatory compliance platform expansion
Veridas has expanded the capabilities of its age verification software with age validation solely through selfie biometrics, avoiding ID scanning...
Africa’s data protection action pushing digital ID forward
Major gains in digital identity policy and the related regulation of data privacy in many African countries provide practical lessons...
 
Onfido adds ETSI identity proofing certification to support customer expansion
UK-based biometric identity verification provider Onfido says it has achieved the latest European standard for identity proofing and trust services,...
  Microsoft to pay $20M fine for collecting kids’ biometrics on Xbox
  New US state law narrows its privacy targets for children online
  Self-sovereign ID startup comes out of the gate flush
  Shufti Pro, Innovatrics, and Fourthline ink KYC deals as consumer interest in AML spikes
  Google Wallet rolls out mDL support and prepares more digital identity use cases
  4 digital identity vendors talk up their passkey efforts
Biometrics White Papers
iProov Biometric Threat Intelligence Report 2023
As face verification gains traction and becomes more prevalent, threat actors are developing evermore sophisticated ways to circumvent these systems...
 
From good to great: The right biometrics capabilities for better banking
The banking industry was already a major user of biometric solutions before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic accelerated the...
One selfie to rule them all: Could distributed biometrics revolutionize the way we authenticate?
Traditional biometric authentication methods, which include both local and server-side biometrics, have limitations that need to be addressed. Local biometrics...
 
Deep dive into deepfakes
Concerns about fraud are growing as the technology to create deepfakes becomes increasingly accessible. This white paper by ID R&D...
Events and Webinars
Digital Identity unConference Europe​ 2023
  June 7, 2023 - June 9, 2023
Webinar: Is your digital onboarding really digital?
  June 15, 2023
Future Identity Finance
  June 20, 2023
Biometrics Institute: US Discussion Day 2023
  June 21, 2023
Seamless Asia 2023
  June 27, 2023 - June 28, 2023
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