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Report reveals nearly half of employees in the technology sector use shadow IT

The struggle to balance productivity and security is becoming more pronounced as employees increasingly turn to advanced technologies and personal…

 

Paraguay issuing digital IDs and mDLs without adequate regulation, NGO argues

Digital IDs derived from Paraguay’s national identity card and driver’s licenses are now accepted as their legal equivalents, but a…

 

Launch event for NFID goes deep on self-sovereign identity

The NFID Foundation formally launched with a virtual event focused on decentralized ID and self-sovereign identity (SSI), and the role…

 

Consumers fine to take time for biometric ID verification in return for less fraud: Veriff

The prevalence of identity fraud incidents is making consumers weigh the fraud protection record of businesses before signing up with…

 

ATB Ventures’ Oliu to provide identity verification for Alberta.ca users

Calgary-based ATB Ventures has secured a deal to provide its digital trust platform, Oliu, to the Government of Alberta. A…

 

Florida law brings age verification for adult sites, bans social media for users under 14

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed House Bill 3 (HB 3) to enact a law requiring social media platforms to…

 

Ghana, Kenya facilitate biometric passport services for compatriots in Canada, China

The Ghanaian High Commission in Canada recently undertook what has been described as an innovative process to facilitate passport issuance…

 

The Gambia reaches 1.17M birth registration milestone with World Bank support

A World Bank-supported project to help set up a digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (eCRVS) system for The Gambia…

 

White House AI policy a ‘seismic policy shift’ for biometrics developers and vendors

The World Privacy Forum (WPF) has logged its first impressions of the White House’s new AI policy, with a focus…

 

AuthenticID, Anonybit execs share insights on privacy-centric biometric authentication

Businesses continue to struggle to secure sensitive data, and to separate attacks using compromised data from biometric authentication attempts by…

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