Search for clarity on UK digital ID leads to trial pitch, consultation proposals
Confusion has covered the UK’s digital identity plans like a morning fog over London. How the UK’s digital ID system…
Articles By Chris Burt
Chris Burt is managing editor and industry analyst at Biometric Update. He has also written nonfiction about information technology, dramatic arts, sports culture, and fantasy basketball, as well as fiction about a doomed astronaut. He lives in Toronto. You can follow him on Twitter @AFakeChrisBurt.
French gov’t confirms hack of at least 18M records from ID document database
France’s government has confirmed that a database storing records of identity documents suffered a breach of millions of entries containing…
Meta tracks employee keystroke data for agentic AI model training amid privacy furor
Meta has introduced a new employee monitoring tool that tracks the keystrokes and mouse movements of the company’s U.S.-based workers…
Fime launches agentic commerce trust layer service
Businesses are racing to establish a way to trust AI agents with financial transactions. Fime has introduced a framework it…
Many smartphones don’t detect face biometrics spoofs or properly warn consumers
Biometric liveness detection remains a significant “flaw” and a “vulnerability” of most Android smartphones with facial unlocking. Most are still…
Precise claims 100K biometrics, cybersecurity uses per second, bright future
Precise Biometrics closed what CEO Joakim Nydemark calls “a challenging year” with a positive EBITDA and cashflow. The company netted…
Edge intelligence enables self-sovereign biometrics for access control at scale
Advances in biometrics have enabled a change in the identity architecture behind access control systems that allows organizations to shift…
Biometrics at scale: EES setbacks meet growth push
The effectiveness of biometrics deployments at scale can be prone to failures of procedure or coordination, as travelers to Europe…
World targets central IDV, AI agent management role with selfie biometrics
World’s latest update positions the company as an identity verification provider for the world of agentic AI, with new tools…
New version of EU age verification app to follow biometrics bypass, exposure claims
A new version of the “technically ready” EU age verification app released on Wednesday is expected any time, an official…
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