Lawsuit casts new light on ICE, CBP’s expanding biometric, visual surveillance dragnet
A sweeping 103-page federal lawsuit filed by the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago against the Trump administration…
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UK to reverse course on mandatory use of national digital ID for RTW checks: reports
People in the UK are still getting a national digital ID in 2029, but it will not be mandatory for…
Face biometrics heavily featured at Intersec Dubai 2026
Intersec Dubai 2026 kicked off with Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum opening the twenty-seventh edition of the…
ROC expects $17M from IPO for American-made biometrics and computer vision
ROC has amended its plan to list an initial public offering on the Nasdaq, and is now expecting to raise…
TSA Touchless ID biometric entry lanes coming to 50 additional US airports
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is expanding its PreCheck Touchless ID program, promising deployments in a total of 65 airports…
With Gemini integration, Walmart joins effort to ‘infuse AI into every bit of shopping’
It was a matter of time before the large language model (LLM) chatbots we have come to call “AI” became…
Okta begins beta test of digital identity verification for US mDLs
A new capability launched to limited availability by Okta enables organizations to carry out identity verification with government-issued verifiable digital…
Grok’s image processing feature is a mass violation of biometric privacy laws
The world, or some part of it, has decided in the last month or so that generating sexualized images of…
OneSpan acquires G+D spinoff Build38, will integrate RASP mobile security tech
Boston-based information security firm OneSpan Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Build38, a Munich-headquartered mobile app security…
Inaugural Deepfake Summit convenes digital ID community to address AI fraud threat
A new event is launching this year to address the fraud threats that come with deepfakes, synthetic identities and agentic…
