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Innovatrics upgrades biometric onboarding demo app

Innovatrics digital onboarding demo app has been updated to enable face biometrics on user’s smartphones with ICAO-compliant photo IDs. The update…

 

Estonia plans digital wallet, Netherlands urged to upgrade digital ID infrastructure

From Estonia’s long-time running national identity scheme to the Netherlands’s foundational ID, Europe will soon be conducting much of its…

 

IATA endorses EU COVID certificate for global digital health pass standard

Europe’s Digital COVID Certificate (DCC) is being held up as a potential global standard for digital health passes by the…

 

DHS finds masks cause jump in face biometrics errors for some races

A third of the facial recognition systems tested by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security showed accuracy rates meeting a…

 

US judge rules biometric processing of public data not protected by First Amendment

An Illinois state court has rejected Clearview AI’s motion to dismiss a biometric data privacy suit against it on grounds…

 

UK to veer away from GDPR in hope of global data-based opportunities

The UK plans to move away from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which it adopted before Brexit, with…

 

NtechLab supplies facial recognition for Indian Railways, but privacy legislation still pending

NtechLab is implementing a facial recognition surveillance project in India intended to monitor the movement of train commuters, but civil…

 

Analyzing BIPA’s newest class action trend: Targeting the use of voice-powered technologies

By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney For the better part of 2020, class action lawsuits filed…

 

Add a biometric basket for your authentication eggs, says vendor

Identity management is failing because it focuses on effectively authenticating devices without biometrically authenticating the person operating an accepted device,…

 

Cubox deploys new biometric ABC gates in Korean airports and harbors

Face biometrics provider Cubox will deploy a new generation of its automated border control (ABC) e-Gates, as well as replace…

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