Biometric surveillance vendors adopt the app store model
App stores for edge surveillance cameras are growing with biometrics and computer vision products benign and otherwise. This is significant…
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Health care sector always talking, planning digital ID management. Too little ‘do’
Among the most troubling problems facing health care providers, patient identity has not significantly improved since the digitalization of facility…
Audit of rapid DNA biometric tests at U.S. border light on insights
A U.S. inspector-general review of DNA biometrics used along the nation’s borders to confirm parent-child relationships leaves much to the…
Federal research contractor wants a fence between identity and emotion biometrics
The White House continues to push for what could become integrity standards guiding the government’s involvement in biometrics development. Admirable…
Primer on the multiple Covid roles for biometrics – it’s not just for tracing anymore
Just as the Covid pandemic encompasses much more than people getting sick, identity biometrics can have scores of positive and…
3D emotion recognition hardware gets better, but the software might still be iffy
A South Korean research team is boasting a 3D emotion-recognition innovation. It claims to have married a tiny, specialized camera…
Progress for US mobile driving licenses is halting and weird
Hawaiian legislators are finding the devil is in the details when it comes to mobile driving licenses (mDLs) while in…
Where do US watchdogs stand compared to international peers? Good question
Many of the world’s governments have privacy watchdogs, and some, like the United States, have created little-noticed independent privacy overseers…
What’s the damage as Illinois’ BIPA legal parade grinds on?
A flailing attempt in Illinois to protect businesses from fines related to that state’s biometric privacy law evaporated last week…
IRS debuts face biometrics and suddenly everyone is a privacy regulator
It is unclear if the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s 7 February reversal on the use of face biometrics was caused…
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