Avast’s Charlie Walton wants you to Bring Your Own Identity
When I heard that Evernym, one of the first companies to bet big on self-sovereign identity, was acquired by European…
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Parsons buys Xator for $400M, beefs up its biometrics portfolio
Intelligence defense contractor Parsons has bought 900-person biometrics company Xator in a deal valued at $400 million. Parsons wants to…
A confusing present obscures the future of digital IDs
The difficulty in predicting the future of digital identities is that defining the present of digital identities is as hard…
Unite biometric identification and authentication for superior results: white paper
Face biometrics are traditionally used for both biometric identification during the customer onboarding process and subsequent authentication, forcing the user…
Sensity alleges biometric onboarding providers downplaying deepfake threat
Deepfake videos have received breathless attention in popular for their potential as fraud instruments, from spreading misinformation to carrying out…
Clearview CEO laments ‘misrepresentation’ of facial recognition app in response to UK fine
Clearview AI has been fined approximately £7.5 million (US$9.5 million) by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breach of…
How digital identities could shape the future of humanitarian aid
By Fraser Edwards, CEO at cheqd and Sharanya Thakur, Project Manager at Gravity The current wars in Yemen, Palestine and…
Israeli agency unlawfully shared biometric data of citizens for 7 years, report reveals
A report authored by Roy Friedman, head of the Biometrics Applications Unit of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, has disclosed that…
Embarrassing slipup exposes dozens of personal profiles from Trust Stamp
The only situation worse than a data breach for a face biometrics security company is a dumb data breach. According…
SOBRsafe closes $10M Nasdaq offering for biometrics-based alcohol detection
SOBRsafe, the touch-based biometric ID verification solution provider for alcohol detection to increase work safety, has raised $10 million as…
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