EU to vote on banning sexualized deepfakes after X’s Grok backlash
EU lawmakers will vote on a ban on AI systems generating sexualized deepfakes this Wednesday, following outrage over images that…
Commercial Applications
Biometrics are used in retail and customer-facing settings for point-of-sales services such as payments, access control in systems for purposes such as shoplifting prevention, and identification or characteristic analysis for personalization or customer insights. Access control systems are also increasingly used for automated commercial applications, such as hotel check-ins. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition.
Shanghai launches cross-border digital authentication for foreign business registration
Shanghai has launched a cross‑border digital identity system that lets foreign companies register online, starting with eligible Singaporean investors. The…
New York City lawmakers push sweeping restrictions on private sector biometric surveillance
New York City lawmakers are weighing a sweeping new attempt to curb the spread of biometric surveillance in everyday life,…
Are we ready for biometric tachographs?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Driver inattentiveness is a significant cause of road traffic collisions….
Secure biometric payments will trigger Ukraine ecommerce boom: Visa report
Nine out of 10 Ukrainians wouldn’t mind frequently engaging in online trade transactions if the payment method available to them…
High IDV failure rates shown by Intellicheck research reveal fraud targets
Online businesses and their fraud protection providers have become all too aware of the scale and escalation of identity fraud,…
Bipartisan bill to tackle social media scam ads introduced in US Senate
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation this week aimed at holding social media companies accountable for the spread…
Partial tribunal victory allows Bunnings to keep facial recognition system
The Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia has partially upheld a ruling by the Privacy Commissioner that major retail chain Bunnings…
Singapore tells Meta to expand facial recognition as scam ad concerns in APAC grow
Scams have proliferated on social media and Asia has suffered a plague of it. The surge in social media-enabled scamming…
BlueCheck partners with hemp drinks association to offer age assurance
Austin, Texas-based identity verification and age assurance provider BlueCheck has signed on with the Hemp Beverage Alliance (HBA), making its…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection