California bill requiring age checks for social media has strong support from Newsom
California looks set to impose legal age restrictions for social media, in keeping with the global trend to regulate the…
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Türkiye considers social media age checks, restrictions on handling children’s data
Türkiye wants to examine the data processing of major social media platforms, as identity verification and age restrictions are being…
Corsight facial intelligence earns AI trust mark from independent UK standards body
Facial recognition specialist Corsight has received the AI Performance Mark of Trust from the British Standards Institution (BSI), following an…
Vietnam wants to tie citizens’ VNeID to social media accounts to cut identity fraud
Social media platforms are under the microscope in many countries as regulators consider and set age restrictions. In Southeast Asia,…
FaceTec pitches UR Codes to guard healthcare from fraud with biometrics and liveness
America’s healthcare sector has a major problem with identity fraud. The root cause of that problem, FaceTec argues in a…
Pakistan opens alternative national ID registration path to reach remaining 1.7%
Pakistan has introduced a temporary facility enabling citizens to obtain computerized national identity cards (CNICs) without presenting a computerized birth…
Level 3 biometric PAD tests are spiking, BixeLab offers guidance on interpretation
Level 3 evaluations of biometric presentation attack detection (PAD) technologies based on ISO/IEC 30107-3 are a relatively new development in…
ICE use of commercial phone tracking tool draws congressional scrutiny
A group of Democratic lawmakers on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are pressing Department of Homeland Security…
ID4Africa opens registration for 2026 AGM, releases program brief
Pan-African identity movement ID4Africa has announced the start of registration for its 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM). This year’s event…
Humanity Protocol pivots from Proof-of-Personhood but sticks with palm biometrics
Humanity Protocol, one of the companies that has followed in the footsteps of Sam Altman’s World in creating a Proof-of-Personhood…
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