Some people really do have doppelgangers and that could be a biometric problem
If everyone really does have an unrelated twin somewhere on the planet, that is bad news for facial recognition-based security…
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National digital ID issuance for Pakistanis ramping up
Production of Pakistan’s digital national ID card has doubled, from 60 thousand to 125 thousand per day. The ID cards…
Acquisition-hungry Unico buys another and looks forward to more
Acquisitions are the order of the day every day for executives at Brazilian digital ID unicorn Unico. They are in…
New integrated reference design readied for biometric mobile payments
TrinamiX and STMicroelectronics have finished their reference design for facial authentication and plan to demonstrate the innovation in September at…
Biometric ID, prison programs questioned at federal, state levels in Pakistan
A federal ombudsman in Pakistan is saying that “proper functioning” biometric ID systems must be installed all jails in that…
Snap settles case for $35M as BIPA trips up Amazon and adult entertainment purveyors
Snap (parent of Snapchat) has agreed to settle a biometric data privacy complaint with a class of Illinois users for…
Some US regulators considering new consumer data privacy rules; others want to pass
Apparently not happy to court controversy one decision at a time, U.S. regulator the Federal Trade Commission is going for…
NIST’s image standards could become win/lose factor for govt biometrics contractors
The U.S. government is developing a vendor-neutral standard for assessing how useful an image might be for biometric identification. The…
Zimbabwe’s leader a controversial proponent of biometric IDs
It likely is not the endorsement that backers of digital national IDs would seek, but the controversial President of Zimbabwe…
Russia’s biggest bank gets patents for detecting deepfakes
Add to the list of things Russia’s Sber is, deepfake detector. The Kremlin-controlled bank/new-economy conglomerate has been awarded two domestic…
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