Mastercard, Smile ID partner to scale up merchant KYC in 50+ African countries
Mastercard’s Digital Merchant Onboarding Program (MDOP) has integrated Smile ID’s identity and document verification suite to facilitate merchant onboarding in…
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Biometrics providers among CFIT group fighting UK financial crime
The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) has brought together a consortium of companies to find new ways of…
Digital identity orchestration gains ground in fragmented IAM market
Identity orchestration is growing in prominence for digital identity and access management (IAM), particularly in consumer financial services, where identity…
Age estimation gets OK from Spanish regulator as part of ‘cumulative’ approach
How to use “probabalistic or estimative methods” such as age estimation for personal data processing while complying with the GDPR?…
Somalia taps data protection experience from Nigeria
A team from Somalia’s Data Protection Authority (SDPA) has made a study tour to Nigeria to learn how the country…
Side-channel vulnerability found in legacy Yubikey firmware
Yubico has released a security advisory addressing a side-channel vulnerability in Infineon’s cryptographic library, which several Yubico devices use. These…
Steak ‘n Shake face pay kiosks from PopID draw BIPA class action
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has another notch in its litigation belt, this time in the form of a…
Hitachi biometrics to authenticate payments at 100 Japanese stores
Hitachi and Tobu Railway will commence the rollout of its biometric authentication service in over 100 locations around Japan including…
ITL expands UK distribution of age verification via gaming tech supplier
Innovative Technology (ITL) is strengthening its partnership with UK-based company E-Service, and will focus on expanding the distribution of ITL’s…
FaceTec introduces scannable protocol for privacy-preserving biometric online IDV
A new biometric protocol for online identity verification has been developed by FaceTec for use with a wide range of…
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