Mixed start for privacy advocates fighting US age verification rules for adult content
Legal strategies are being formed to prevent U.S. states from imposing new restrictions, including age-verification policies, on online publishers of…
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Juul plans to re-enter US with age verification e-cigarettes
Electronic cigarette maker Juul says it has improved its product with an age-verification app in the hopes of getting re-authorized…
Biometric tokenization patents given to Trust Stamp
Two U.S. patents for biometric identification, one for biometric tokenization, have been awarded to software maker Trust Stamp. The first…
US cyber safety board wants feds more involved in eliminating passwords
A U.S. cybersecurity agency has issued a full-throated endorsement of private – namely FIDO Alliance — and government standards-making to…
Biometrics firms caught in data privacy complaints turn to arbitration
Short of actually winning a biometrics privacy lawsuit in the U.S. states of Illinois and California there seems only one…
Detroit police change facial recognition procedure as falsely accused woman sues
Police leadership in the U.S. city of Detroit is reacting to a wrongful arrest lawsuit by defending facial recognition software…
Arizona sheriff buys scanners from China firm sanctioned by feds
A Chinese biometrics company on a U.S. watch list reportedly won a $5 million no-bid contract to provide eight body…
Digital ID security startup focused on cloud transactions pulls in $12M
A June 2022 series A round of funding for cloud-access orchestrator ConductorOne was bumped out this week to $27 million….
China regulator floats curbs for face biometrics use, data storage
Draft rules for how businesses can and cannot use facial recognition are being aired in China. The proposed rules have…
Governments, vendors less skittish about promoting facial recognition sales
News of Colombia’s decision to buy facial recognition software from a Spanish company for its national police force lacks one…
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