IATA says airports unprepared for EES
Dozens of airports across Europe are unprepared for the European Union’s upcoming biometric travel registration scheme, the Entry-Exit System (EES),…
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Contactless biometrics for Curaçao, Berlin and Marseille airports
More airports across the world are going biometric, implementing contactless border crossings and new digital services. Caribbean tourist destination Curaçao…
Australia makes headway in digital ID interoperability
Australia is making progress in bringing together the country’s digital identity schemes and making them interoperable, including the federal myGov…
Not all Digital Travel Credentials are created equal: SITA
One solution that could help ameliorate long queues at airports is the Digital Travel Credential (DTC), the digital equivalent of…
Scotland biometrics commish wants ICO to look into cops use of cloud
After Microsoft revealed that it could not guarantee the sovereignty of UK policing data hosted on its cloud servers, the…
South Korea expands mobile ID to overseas residents
South Korea is making its mobile identification cards available to its nationals living overseas. The mobile ID card service will…
EU earmarks €190M for new Horizon Europe program, including border management
The European Union has earmarked 190 million euros (US$204.8 million) for projects related to border security, cybersecurity, privacy, crime fighting…
Photos of Australian children found in AI training dataset, create deepfake risk
Personal photos of Australian children are being used to train AI through a dataset that has been built by scraping…
Deepfake research is growing and so is investment in companies that fight it
AI-generated content such as deepfakes is facing increasing scrutiny. Three new research resources – authored by search giant Google, identity…
Bulgaria’s biometric ID runs into issues in banks, eID may also face trouble
Bulgaria has recently rolled out new biometric ID cards but unfortunately for its citizens, some banks have not prepared to…
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