Feedback on White House’s cybersecurity order: volunteering, grumbling, and some urgency
A presidential executive order in May calling for better cybersecurity, including multi-factor authentication and zero trust architecture, has had unexpected…
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Grindr accused of heavy-handed biometric data requests
Grindr seems to have gotten itself into one of the few positions that even its most flexible subscribers have not…
Almost half in UK would welcome digital health passes for public events
An industry-commissioned survey of United Kingdom adults found that almost half would feel safer at public events if COVID passports…
Take the shine and target off face biometrics, say researchers
Of the uncounted words, both alarmed and alarming, devoted to law enforcement’s use of facial recognition, there is one sentence…
ETF launches for biometrics firms and others building cashless payment infrastructure
An Irish investment tracking fund focused on environmental and food companies has announced a third focus: cashless payments. Rize ETF,…
UK firms do a lot of manual authentication. Is there a better practice?
Eyeballing documents for forgeries is still a surprisingly common practice given the resources at forgers’ disposal. Even moreso as digital…
Feds and state government put money into biometric expansion projects
Two American government biometrics contracts, one federal and one state, were announced this week. The more significant of the two…
Have governments stopped trying to finesse intense face biometrics projects?
Israel and India are building facial recognition surveillance projects that seem consciously designed to aggravate specific fears held by privacy…
Uncle DHS wants you to help him make better biometrics
Better late than never, the U.S. government wants to find out what people think of facial recognition and other AI…
China’s biometrics sector faces interesting hurdles but it’s not slowing soon
An investigative article out of China indicates that four biometrics unicorns in that country face substantial problems meeting earlier market…
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