Renewed attack on EU’s proposed Eurodac biometric upgrade
Dozens of civil society organizations have renewed their demand that the EU stop expanding the capabilities of its biometric asylum-registration…
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AI deciders targeted for regulation in California
California regulators have published draft rules for automated decision making. Broad and sweeping guidelines would govern consumer access and opt-out…
HIPAA trumps biometric privacy law in drug cabinet lawsuit
A rare Biometric Information Privacy Act win for the defense has been recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois. Health…
Assa Abloy biometric access card patent appeal defeated by CPC
A global access control giant has lost its challenge to 17 biometric card security patents in the United States. Sweden-based…
TransUnion research shows most in US fear identity fraud, but rates keep climbing
Digital identity fraud trends published at yearend in the U.S. and globally by a credit-reporting firm seem to be contradictory…
$22M OBIM-related contract for Four Points
The U.S. Homeland Security Department has awarded a $22.2 million biometrics-related contract to Virginia-based Four Points. The company is a…
Bill threatens US biometrics program in airports
A group of U.S. senators, from opposing parties, are sponsoring a bill that would cauterize or kill a government biometric…
Cyberfraud victim advocates fear biometrics buyers rushing to deploy
Where biometrics is being adopted to protect U.S. consumers, too many deployments are reflexive and poorly thought out, according to…
Digital IDs mean manageable and critical change, FIDO tells US federal security leaders
Clearly appreciating that it was selling digital authentication to data-security officials in the inertia-guided U.S. federal bureaucracy, a FIDO Alliance…
Seeing and hearing a face – a different kind of multi-modal authentication
A UK yearling startup says it has put a fused voice and face biometric algorithm in the field, in banks….
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