US state, Ireland curb police use of facial recognition
The push and pull of police policy governing biometric surveillance has been tugged hard by privacy advocates. Law enforcement in…
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Funding a choice in decentralized ID
Early-stage crypto-native venture firm Superscrypt has led a $4 million seed round for Intuition, a firm writing software for non-specialized…
Once wide open, internet being fenced with age checks
Moved by a moral context, politically conservative U.S. states are lining up to pass age-verification laws designed to keep children…
US feds to biometrics collectors: Knock it off. We mean it
United States regulators have taken time to, in a local figure of speech, brush businesses that deal in biometric data…
Another US state tentatively steps up to digital ID
In much the same way that generative AI has become a cultural phenomenon in the United States, it appears digital…
Spies want to disguise voices while researchers work to detect voice spoofs
A U.S. intelligence project incubator has announced it is looking for help creating anonymous real-time speech algorithms that disguise a…
Mitek stands on the edge of delisting from Nasdaq yet again
Digital ID vendor Mitek Systems has yet file required quarterly reports with Nasdaq, the exchange on which it is traded,…
US industry groups want more from the White House on digital ID
Businesses and digital ID advocates are again petitioning the Biden Administration to use its power to drive down rates of…
No shortage of fumbling in the dark to neuter deepfakes
An article in a UK politics trade publication sees domestic lawmakers deliberately ignoring the dangers posed by deepfakes. Maybe to…
New Yorkers sue Amazon, Starbucks over biometrics use in cashierless stores
Amazon and coffee retailer Starbucks are being sued in U.S. federal district court for misusing customers’ biometric identifiers. The proposed…
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