ICO ‘encouraged’ by UK police facial recognition compliance with data protection law
The use of facial recognition by police in South Wales and Gwent is compliant with the UK’s data protection law,…
Articles By Masha Borak
Masha Borak is a technology journalist. Her work has appeared in Wired, Business Insider, Rest of World, and other media outlets. Previously she reported for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Reach out to her at masha@biometricupdate.com.
Complexity, lack of standards holding back confidence in Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography has been hailed as a solution for preserving the privacy of personal information during identity verification…
Multi-party computation is trending for digital ID privacy: Partisia explains why
Imagine being in a group of coworkers and trying to guess the average salary among you. The classical way of…
Trulioo partners with payment platform Worldpay to offer Know Your Agent to merchants
AI agents may not be booking our holidays or filling our online shopping carts yet, but digital ID companies such…
Lyft adding age verification to bike share service in New York
Lyft has announced that it will start using age verification for its Citi Bike bicycle-sharing service in New York, following…
Jordan submits digital transformation strategy for public comment
Jordan has kicked off public consultations for its National Digital Transformation Strategy, targeting the development of digital infrastructure, digital government…
UK govt building on live facial recognition, announces predictive policing prototype
The UK government has announced a predictive policing project, relying on AI-powered interactive crime maps and facial recognition technology, that…
HSBC doubling number of biometric access control readers at new UK office
HSBC plans to add more cameras and access control systems to its global offices, requiring biometric verification, such as palm…
Italy: Nearly 100,000 ID scans from hotel guests found on dark web
Italian authorities have discovered that a malicious actor has obtained tens of thousands of high-resolution scans of passports, ID cards…
US Treasury sanctions Iranian firm over hijab biometric surveillance system
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned an Iranian software company that developed the facial recognition surveillance tools used by Iranian authorities…
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