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Canadian digital identity council seeks feedback on infrastructure criteria
The Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada is asking for comments on the conformance criteria for the technological and...
 
‘Harmful’ and ‘likely’: one-third of UK children have adult social media accounts
Children appear to be unphased by regulation, technology or age-appropriate design codes as they simply lie about their age to...
Researchers progress further on iris biometric liveness detection with multi-class networks
A three-class serial model for presentation attack detection to protect iris biometric systems shows benefits over the two-class approach that...
 
Philippines distributes 16M biometric ID cards, downloadable version coming soon
Officials of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) say 16.7 million biometric national digital ID cards dubbed PhilID have already been...
Intigriti pentest service supports certifications as biometrics providers approved
Intigriti, a European crowdsourced security platform, has launched a Hybrid Pentesting service as part of its bug bounty program that...
 
Ekemp sues Liberian commission over biometric voter registration procurement
China-based Ekemp and its partners have filed a Writ of Prohibition with the Supreme Court of Liberia on the entire...
Google pushes passwordless authentication with biometric passkeys
Google announced Wednesday that it is bringing biometric passkeys to Android and Chrome devices. Writing on the Android developers’ website,...
 
Cameroon election agency wants huge ID card backlog cleared ahead of polls
The chairman of Cameroon’s election management body (ELECAM), Abrams Enow Egbe, recently held talks with the delegate general for national...
Digital Trust World 2022 to address essential questions facing digital services
Trust anchors developed for people’s physical lives need to be replicated, and in some cases improved, to support digital interactions...
 
Another big court decision in US litigation. Jury finds for biometric privacy rights
Privacy rights observers are calling the win by plaintiffs in Rogers v. BNSF the second landmark decision of the BIPA...
NEC America promotes public sector leader to engage government, biometrics provider groups
NEC has promoted Brent Bombach to vice president and head of government relations and public policy, amid several senior leadership...
 
Nigeria’s Delta State to capture biometrics of 98K pupils as school meal program resumes
After a three-year hiatus, Nigeria’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is resuming in Delta State, with the capture of...
Mixing synthetic, real faces make biometric recognition pretty good
A team dominated by Microsoft scientists has published research indicating that anyone scraping the internet for faces with which to...
 
NZ privacy advocates: Laws need revamp to reflect biometric surveillance realities
An Aotearoa New Zealand privacy advocacy group thinks that nation’s approach to privacy and biometrics must be more nuanced than...
  Trust Stamp’s path to UK Govt biometric software contracts eases with G-Cloud 13 listing
  IronVest raises $23M for decentralized biometric password manager
  ITU-T to recommend OSIA specifications for national digital identity systems
  Suspect image based on DNA phenotyping pulled back by Edmonton police
  UAE governments support biometrics expansion for online services, age verification
  EU Parliament meeting shows facial recognition still at the center of AI Act
Biometrics White Papers
On-demand webinar: Why combine customer identity verification and authentication?
Customer identity verification and authentication are often treated as separate processes, dealt with by separate teams and supported by separate...
 
Biometrics are transforming the retail landscape
The retail experience has undergone profound shifts in the past decade. As consumers grew more comfortable making purchases online, they...
Better banking experiences start with strong authentication and face biometric
Banking should be easy and safe. Financial institutions need to meet increasing customer demand for accessibility and convenience while ensuring...
 
ISO PAD and FIDO testing comparison
Two of the most popular testing services that iBeta offers are ISO 30107 compliance, and FIDO Biometrics Component Certification. To...
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  October 18, 2022 - October 19, 2022
Anything with a look: a self-sovereign decentralised vision of authentication
  October 18, 2022
ID4Africa LiveCast Episode 35
  October 19, 2022
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