UK Surveillance Camera and Biometrics Commissioner pans proposed role changes
That the right to life and freedom from degrading treatment are related to police uses of biometrics, but not protected…
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Digital ID challenges reflected in UN group’s principles for responsible digital payments
A UN-affiliated group is calling on organizations involved in digital payments to adopt a set of principles to increase trust…
HID Global introduces biometric MFA platform for banks, targets LATAM region
Latin American banks can drive customer loyalty in a competitive market by using biometrics to provide the widest-reaching omnichannel experience…
Smart Engines launches faster credit card scanning with automated OCR
Smart Engines has launched a new credit card scanner for mobile and web applications, which uses the company’s optical character recognition…
Spanish police, Europol seize thousands of counterfeit digital ID cards, passports in raid
Almost 2,000 counterfeit passports and ID cards for 56 nationalities and supplies of digital ID card chips were seized in…
Microsoft and Nvidia partner up on speech recognition model training
Microsoft and Nvidia have announced a new collaboration focusing on the training of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered natural language processing (NLP)…
Circular AI firing squad: Fighting AI bias with fake faces may pose real privacy risks
The problems with fake faces are so complex that some solutions just create more problems. Researchers in Switzerland, for example,…
New voices shame US government, tech leaders for muffing AI lead
Has China, which one generation ago was laughed off as a manufacturing threat to the West, already beat the United…
Bringing biometric 2FA to the desktop
The continued rise of two-factor authentication (2FA) has been a product of the increase in digital customer engagement due to…
ID4Africa returns to in-person – and augmented – event in Marrakesh, June 2022
The ID4Africa movement will meet again in person in Marrakesh, Morocco on 15 and 16 June 2022. The meeting will be…
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