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Articles By Joel R. McConvey

Joel McConvey is a creative content producer and digital specialist who helps people and organizations tell their story across platforms, and meet the challenges of a digital culture that changes quickly and often. Reach him on Twitter @jrmcconvey.

 

Regula to replace SumSub as face biometrics provider for Maldives

Regula Forensics has been granted the contract to provide face recognition for the Maldives’ national digital identity, eFaas, after the…

 

Biometrics’ promise of secure, frictionless access news to Delta stowaway

In what is being called a ‘gross failure’ of security, a stowaway was able to evade multiple security checkpoints to…

 

Kids are bypassing weak age assurance measure in droves, and it has to change: Ofcom

When Instagram says only eight percent of its users are between 13 and 16, it neglects to factor in that…

 

ACCS’s Tony Allen breaks down Australia’s Age Assurance Technology Trial

In Canberra on Thursday, Tony Allen, CEO of the Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS), presented a stakeholder briefing on the…

 

New Zealand finalizes Digital Identity Services Trust Framework

New Zealand’s new Digital Identity Services Trust Framework (DISTF) rules are part of the country’s larger push to roll out…

 

Frontex seeks fingerprint biometrics innovators

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is hosting an online networking session on January 23, 2025. An announcement…

 

Australia forges ahead with digital identity, releases second Digital Services Standard

A release from the Australian government says it wants to expand the voluntary use of digital ID to bring “whole…

 

Apple patent uses FRT with ‘body data’ so cameras can ID people without seeing faces

Apple has been granted a patent for “identity recognition utilizing face-associated body characteristics.” The face recognition technology is anticipated to…

 

Biometrics emerge as likely age assurance option as Australian gov’t rules out ID docs

Kids in Australia may find themselves scrambling to create as many social media accounts as they can before the end…

 

ID.me closes tender offer valuing firm at $1.8B in year full of wins

ID.me has closed a recent tender offer that valued the firm at $1.8 billion, climbing from a $1.78 billion valuation…

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