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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.

 

Entrust tells a tale of two CEOs as Biometric Update Podcast talks transition, consistency

Oftentimes, a new CEO at a company means a change of direction, a course correction or a sudden exit for…

 

Remote Identity Validation Rally enters biometric PAD phase

The year-long Remote Identity Validation Rally (RIVR) challenge series hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and…

 

Startup Cyata nets $8.5M in funding to fight growing threat of AI agents gone bad

Robot agents gone rogue sounds like the premise of a spy film, but it has become a legitimate security problem,…

 

London police can use live facial recognition 10 times a week under new rules

London’s Metropolitan Police, or The Met, is ramping up its use of live facial recognition in tandem with a strategy…

 

Apple, Google device biometrics to be available to third-party developers in Japan

Beyond any specific would-be trade deal, the general sense that the world should no longer lean on the U.S. will…

 

Idemia’s latest PIV card added to US approved products list

The latest generation of PIV-based smart cards from Idemia Public Security has been added to the General Services Administration (GSA)’s…

 

Report calls for halt to TSA’s ‘facial recognition experiment’

While industry stakeholders push to make biometrics the preferred option for global travel, digital rights groups are asking whether travelers…

 

Ireland tells X to follow rules as High Court dismisses Online Safety Code challenge

Just as the social platform known as X has struggled to convince people to stop calling it Twitter, it has…

 

YouTube plays different cards in US, Australia in adapting to age assurance era

There is continued consternation in Australia over the government’s decision to include YouTube in its online safety laws for social…

 

Should payment processors dictate online safety compliance for sites that rely on them?

People tend to trust their credit card providers to comply with regulations, but as online safety laws kick in, some…

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