DOJ plans modernization of biometric service for criminal, civil checks
The Department of Justice’s Office of the Chief Information Officer is planning to replace the Joint Automated Booking System (JABS)…
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Historic penalty decision in BIPA case shows the need to take biometric privacy seriously
Biometrics in one U.S. jurisdiction is now officially a live electrical wire dancing on the ground, ready to shock the…
Zengo extends FaceTec selfie biometrics checks to protect crypto transactions
A new biometric authentication feature has been added to cryptocurrency wallet Zengo in an expansion of its implementation of FaceTec…
Benin issues digital IDs to citizens living abroad
Benin’s National Agency for the Identification of Persons (ANIP) has dispatched teams to fifteen countries around the world to assign…
US cities weigh value of facial recognition for police
After a lull in efforts to put significant restrictions on how police in the U.S. can use facial recognition, politicians…
Face biometrics, liveness capabilities launched by DocuSign, PresentID, Microsoft
The business uses for biometric identity verification continue to diversify, with executives pushing at the edges of what ID tools…
More reports that Hikvision, Nvidia still involved in China ethnic surveillance
There is a new account about how China’s Hikvision biometric surveillance firm continues to specifically target that nation’s Uyghur population…
NIST discusses new section on VCs and mDLs, timeline for digital ID updates
Digital identity guidelines from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology are changing, and the agency held an event…
Worldcoin cryptocurrency drives digital ID enrollment despite ‘potential privacy nightmare’
After launching its cryptocurrency on Monday, Worldcoin users across the world have been lining up to get their irises scanned…
Friction grows over age-estimating software and policies for gaming
Facial age estimation for video gaming has become an unlikely point of contention for industry and advocacy groups. Generally, the…
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