Mastercard digital ID trial with Australia Post and university expands
A digital ID trial Mastercard is carrying out at an Australia university has expanded following a successful first phase. The trial…
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Germany to require fingerprints and biometric images for government IDs
The German parliament is implementing recently enacted EU regulations to require fingerprints and biometric images on national IDs, reports Mitteldeutsche…
AWS Single Sign-On now supports WebAuthn multi-factor authentication tools like YubiKeys
Support for Yubico in the AWS environment has been expanded with the introduction of native WebAuthn support for AWS Single Sign-On…
For image recognition systems the world still looks like ‘Daddy Knows Best’ — research
A U.S.-European team of researchers say image recognition systems “mimic and even amplify real-world bias” involving men and women. The…
More education needed for biometrics ethics in humanitarian context: Simprints webinar panel
The ethics of using biometrics in development and humanitarian projects can be difficult and confusing with important concepts that seem…
Lessons from TikTok: Federal and state law implications for children’s biometric data privacy
Guest post by Bess Hinson, Ashley Thomas and Bisi Adeyemo, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP TikTok has been dominating news…
SITA, Nagarro and NEC each help airport partners expand face biometrics
Etihad Airways is trialing face biometrics from SITA to check cabin crew into the Crew Briefing Centre at Abu Dhabi…
‘Project Panoptic’ launches as facial recognition use by Delhi Police expands
The Internet Freedom Foundation is about to launch what it says is the first system for tracking facial recognition technology…
BioID details Ariadnext partnership and biometric liveness technology
The IDCheck.io biometric identity verification solution from Ariadnext is powered by liveness detection from BioID, according to a partnership announcement…
US border agency’s proposed biometrics rule draws divided reactions
Divided reactions have sprung out of Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) proposed new rule for its biometric entry/exit system, NextGov…
