| Weekend Reading : Feb 25, 2024 |
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| Face biometrics growing role in trust raises stakes for fakes |
| Face biometrics are powering identity checks for employment, air travel, and enterprise access control in some of the most-read stories…Read More |
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| Australia wants to include more providers in national digital ID scheme |
| The Australian government is working on expanding the national digital ID system to include more… |
| US Civil Rights Commission kicks off investigation on facial recognition |
| Facial recognition and its use by U.S. federal agencies is becoming a new target of… |
| Lawmakers try again for US bill that opens forensic black boxes |
| A pair of U.S. politicians have introduced a bill to open black-box forensic algorithms used… |
| Lawmakers, activists, pornographers haggle over the future of North America’s children |
| The tug-of-war between legislators aiming to protect kids under 13 and activists who say their… |
| New York lawmaker pitches multiple mDL vendors despite $1.7M contract with Idemia I&S |
| A New York State legislator is exploring an alternative path forward for mobile driver’s licenses… |
| FinCEN underlines financial sector collaboration to address digital identity threat |
| Following the release of its Identity Financial Trend Analysis, representatives from the U.S. Treasury Department’s… |
| Fintech platforms add selfie biometrics to protect against payments fraud |
| Paravision is providing face biometrics and liveness detection to an online payment platform, while Veridas… |
| Use liveness detection to cut stolen data’s value, and explain why: panel |
| The information that people present as evidence of their identity claims is widely available enough… |
| The law is not keeping up with AI deepfake fraud, and it will only get worse |
| Joe Biden deepfake robocalls, Taylor Swift deepfake porn, the launch of Sora: the past few… |
| Deepfakes are a threat to India’s democracy but also video KYC: report |
| India is facing a proliferation of deepfakes that could spread misinformation during elections. More importantly… |
| Sora’s AI video has people gasping but have they already forgotten OnlyFake? |
| OpenAI is marketing Sora, its new text-to-video model, while withholding it from the public while… |
| Deepfake detection market and regulation growing in US |
| Deepfake products might not be booming, according to some market watchers, but short-term projections show… |
| World Bank ID4D report shows govt-issued IDs still limited in digital capabilities |
| In addition to the at least 850 million people estimated to have no form of… |
| Maisha Namba issuance to resume as Kenyan High Court lifts injunction |
| Kenya will resume printing national ID cards, the government announced after the country’s high court… |
| Kenya’s digital ID ecosystem must respect fundamental human rights: policy advisory |
| The Kenya office of global rights advocacy organization, Amnesty International, has issued an advisory policy… |
| Vietnam targets digital transformation of public services with DNA-backed ID |
| Vietnam’s government is making a push for its national digital transformation project, formally labeled “Developing… |
| Passport and digital ID card scandal unravels in Pakistan |
| The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has conducted a secret operation that involved giving Afghan individuals… |
| Digital ID can boost GDP of implementing countries up to 13%: UNECA |
| Statistics and data experts have posited that properly implemented digital ID systems have the potential… |
| World Bank reportedly considering $321M DPI project for Jordan |
| The World Bank is reported to be working on a project to support the development… |
| White hat hacker reveals vulnerability in Germany’s digital ID |
| Germany’s digital ID may come under threat from malicious attackers, according to an analysis from… |
| Bug bounty announced for the Worldcoin project |
| Backers of the Worldcoin cybercurrency protocol project say they have created a bug bounty program… |
| Houston Astros introducing ticketless access with MLB Go-Ahead Entry |
| Major League Baseball in the U.S. is introducing its facial recognition ticketing program, Go-Ahead Entry,… |
| Wicket picked up for NFL-wide biometric scanning this year |
| Satisfied with IAM systems after a six-team trial last season, the U.S. National Football League… |
| Breaches, breaches everywhere: IAM deals respond to rising identity threats |
| Cloud-based biometric privileged access management (PAM) firm Delinea announced in a release it has acquired… |
| Idemia strengthens Microsoft ties with new Entra Verified ID integration |
| Idemia Public Security (IPS) has been recognized as a Microsoft Entra Verified ID partner for… |
| Suprema introduces on-device biometric authentication for physical access control |
| Suprema has developed an on-device biometric authentication method that integrates with organizations’ physical access control… |
| Tech5 wins ABIS contract for Jamaican biometric voter registration |
| Tech5 will provide the automated biometric identification system (ABIS) for Jamaica’s voter registry, to deduplicate,… |
| SenseTime wins deals in Saudi Arabia in return for investment in domestic firms |
| SenseTime and other technology companies based in China are investing in local firms in Saudi… |
| Tinder expands video selfie biometrics after pilot shows more matches made |
| Who knew selfie biometrics make people more attractive? Tinder is rolling out its ID verification… |
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