Uber Eats settles driver’s biometric ID verification discrimination case
In the UK, Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber Eats driver, has received a payout in an out-of-court settlement after UberEats’…
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Portugal orders Worldcoin to stop collecting iris biometrics for 90 days
Portugal’s data regulator, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), has imposed a 90-day suspension on Worldcoin’s biometric data…
EU digital wallet framework finally adopted for digital ID ‘paradigm shift’
The European Council has formally adopted a new framework for a European Digital Identity Wallets (EUDIWs) that will allow citizens…
Nametag, Indian academics, Intercede strengthen MFA with biometrics, passkeys
As deepfake threats rise, enterprises are losing faith in the security of identity verification and authentication without further protection. Gartner…
Florida town installs live facial recognition to protect against 3 trespassers
Lakeland, Florida is not known as a particularly violent city. It does not appear on lists of America’s most crime-ridden…
Preventing AI-assisted deepfake fraud is becoming a major commercial industry
Deepfakes have become the latest technically challenging threat for the biometric security sector, as researchers and developers push fraud-protection tools…
Synthetic data model shows promise for biometric bias mitigation
The limitations of real-world biometric training datasets, including the introduction of bias through unbalanced demographic representation, are well established. Synthetic…
Australia amending Digital ID Bill to ensure Senate passage
Australia’s Digital ID Bill is being amended to bring private sector identity service providers into the system within two years,…
New tool from Attain Insight strips PII from biometrics to enable compliant sharing
Attain Insight, an Ottawa, Canada-based data security and analytics firm that provides services for identity resolution and compliance, has launched…
Philippines govt pushes adoption of digital national ID as enrollments pass 85M
The digital version of the Philippines national ID card (PhilID), known as ePhilID, makes it much easier for users to…
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