Fingerprint scans for 7-year-olds? Could happen at EU borders this year
The popular image of government biometrics is video with CGI framing faces in a crowd and thumbs pressed onto scanners….
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Warrantless face-matching opposed in 2 US state capitals
Two U.S. commonwealths are acting to restrict the use by police of facial recognition without warrants. Massachusetts and Kentucky lawmakers…
Portugal and France make mobile driver’s licenses available almost immediately
Portugal and France have made digital identity cards and other official forms as legal as physical documents. The governments have…
Washington legislators vote together to OK biometric age verification for alcohol
Washington State senators have unanimously approved a bill that would allow biometrics to be used for age verification. Its use…
Size is beginning to matter a lot to Meta in data privacy court cases
Every company that’s ever been sued has had to decide what outcome is too painful for the owners to bear…
Congressional report advocates inching when miles are needed to curb China AI
The U.S. government should change how it uses sanctions to curb Chinese aggression, according to a House of Representatives committee….
Biometrics get folded into situational awareness in buyout
Reveal Technology has bought DFL Technology. The result will be conventional situational awareness that includes identities and biometric scanning in…
Officials want more candidates in UK digital ID assessment pilot
A pilot certification project in the UK for digital ID is being expanded. The government wants to double the number…
Hospitals have heard for years to deploy ID infrastructure; here’s a new nudge
A day’s not complete in the digital ID world until someone (and usually it’s many people) shakes a stick accusingly…
Still a financial struggle for Fingerprint Cards in fiscal ‘23
Biometric sensor maker Fingerprint Cards released fiscal 2023 and fourth quarter financial reports that show a trudge toward black ink….
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