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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.

 

Idemia faces lawsuit from spurned former partner in ACSA deal

There is more fallout from the canceled biometrics contract between French firm Idemia and Airports Company South Africa (ACSA), as…

 

DefAI Project aims to give age assurance its own dedicated deepfake detection toolkit

Deepfake detection, not so long ago guarding a niche corner of the internet, has erupted into a veritable battle royal,…

 

BioCatch Trust Network launches in Australia to enable banks to exchange data

Collaboration is key to the most effective fraud detection: so says behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch, which has issued a release…

 

New app for Marylanders enables businesses to check mDLs, digital ID

Maryland continues to push the envelope on mobile driver’s license (mDL) adoption in the U.S., announcing this week the launch…

 

Digi2Real dataset applies ‘realism enhancement’ to synthetic face data

Facial recognition systems have an endless appetite for training data. But using real people’s faces without their consent raises ethical…

 

‘Spurious realities’ of AI age drive boom for ways to prove humanness

Like it or not, we will soon need ways to confirm that we are human in a world of machines,…

 

Age assurance regulations risk coming too soon as global trials collect data

In the ongoing policy tug-of-war over age verification measures for pornographic websites, it may be a classic case of premature…

 

New algorithms shuffle NIST 1:N facial recognition leaderboard

Innovatrics has cracked the top ten in the latest NIST benchmark of facial recognition algorithms. A release from the Slovakian…

 

Dominican Republic orders immediate suspension of World ID verification

Regulators in the Dominican Republic are the latest to issue a red card to the World Foundation, with the National…

 

Australia’s age assurance plan prompts privacy, online harms debate

Now that the tender for Australia’s age assurance trial has been awarded to the Age Check Certification Scheme, the task…

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