Rebuffed on arbitration, Onfido calls it quits in BIPA lawsuit
Biometric ID verification provider Onfido is settling a suit brought by plaintiffs alleging that the company had illegally used their…
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Sort-of IPO planned for Yubico with merger. SPACs get more attractive
Another identity authentication firm is turning to a pseudo-IPO to generate funds. Multifactor access security key firm Yubico is merging…
Tougher laws urged after 1 in 5 kiwis lose data in Latitude attack
The New Zealand government estimates that 20 percent of its citizens were victimized in an attack on the Australian consumer…
Biometric privacy cases churn on, but talk of legal reform gets louder
Amazon and beefery McDonald’s are separately involved in new class-action filings about their alleged violation of a U.S. state biometric…
India state runs facial recognition on unsuspecting telco customers to fight fraud
Facial recognition algorithms reportedly have identified 30,000 fake SIM cards this spring in the west coast Indian state of Gujarat….
Elenium looks at a little-known tool for funding at $185M valuation
Another rainy-day funding scheme has found a fan in Elenium Automation, a face and palm biometrics supplier focused on the…
Okta leaders hit with insider-trading class action
A shareholder of cloud-based authenticator Okta has filed a potential class action against the company making a number of accusations…
The politics of facial recognition in the US still swings like pendulum
U.S. privacy advocates scored one of their few recent legislative victories, pushing through a near-total ban on government use of…
Precise seeks funding to weather smartphone biometrics dip
A second proposed share issue for Precise Biometrics in less than a year – after the previous one disappointed —…
Malaysian digital ID companies pair up to address government market
Executives of a Malaysian public company have said they will invest an undisclosed sum in a biometrics developer, also in…
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