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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.

 

Relying parties in the spotlight at 2026 Global Age Assurance Standards Summit

Where are we at with age assurance? This is the first question posed at the 2026 Global Age Assurance Standards…

 

Imply reaches face biometrics milestone at tech-forward Arena da Baixada

Imply Tecnologia’s facial recognition model has enabled more than 1 million accesses at Arena da Baixada, the home of Club…

 

Following IPO, ROC is investing in homegrown security for US market

In February, Colorado-based biometrics and vision AI provider ROC closed the first big biometrics IPO of 2026, raising just over…

 

Denmark imposes age checks to restrict social media to kids under 15

Welcome two more Europeans nations to the global age assurance legislation party. The Danish government is moving ahead with an…

 

Palm vein biometrics from ePortID integrated with MNM’s physical access control

Biometric access control provider ePortID LLC has announced a “strategic teaming arrangement” with physical network infrastructure company MNM Group. A…

 

Japan introduces new rules on biometric data in APPI amendment bill

Amendments are coming to Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI). The country’s cabinet has approved a bill…

 

UK’s OfDIA assigns international digital identity standards role as DVS ‘backbone’

One of the key principles driving digital identity is that, in keeping with the shape of the digital world, it…

 

Fraudsters are exploiting generative AI faster than organizations can respond: SAS

In the great AI race of the 2020s, fraudsters have a healthy lead, and they are upping their pace in…

 

BIPA damage limitation applies retroactively to pending class actions: court

Illinois’ infamous biometric data privacy law has lost some of its sting. A ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals…

 

US age assurance debate shifts in wake of ruling that social media causes harm

The push to put age-based restrictions on social media has played out in the regulatory arena, but is being driven…

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