Juul plans to re-enter US with age verification e-cigarettes
Electronic cigarette maker Juul says it has improved its product with an age-verification app in the hopes of getting re-authorized…
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Biometric tokenization patents given to Trust Stamp
Two U.S. patents for biometric identification, one for biometric tokenization, have been awarded to software maker Trust Stamp. The first…
Czech data protection authorities question police use of facial recognition
Police use of facial recognition technology has come under the scrutiny of data protection authorities in another country, this time…
Kenya signs digital ID support deal with UNDP, introduces a new Namba
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Kenya and the United Nation’s Development Programme to support the country’s digital…
Rate of foreigners acquiring Ugandan national ID is alarming, govt official warns
A spokesman for Uganda’s Internal Affairs Ministry, Simon Peter Mundeyi, says the rate at which foreign nationals bribe their way…
Filipino lawmakers deplore missed target for biometric ID card production
The House Committee on Appropriations of the Philippines parliament has been told that only 36 million physical ID cards (PhilID)…
Align liveness detection with cybersecurity best practices to stop generative AI
Generative AI is being used to fuel a range of fraud attacks, from fake kidnappings to digital injection attacks against…
Romance fraud – the anti-love story
By Simon Horswell, Fraud Specialist, Onfido In 1995, the world’s first online dating site launched as Match.com, marking a new…
Crypto platform Binance chooses Liquid for biometric KYC checks in Japan
Global cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance has chosen Japanese know your customer (KYC) and selfie biometrics vendor Liquid Inc amid rising…
Accura Scan passes iBeta biometric liveness test, announces free checks for startups
India-based authentication company Accura Scan has passed the Level 2 biometric presentation attack detection (PAD) iBeta Quality Assurance test. To…
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