Accenture adoption, SecureAuth survey show rise of passwordless authentication
Passwordless authentication methods such as biometric and PIN-based logins are gaining ground, according to research and the latest moves from…
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Porn gets the marquee in Australian opposition’s age verification bill
Amid rising global interest in online age verification, Australia’s politicians are indulging in a bit of gamesmanship, with the coalition…
More than consent needed for legal biometric data use: Spanish regulator
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has published a guide outlining how biometric data should be used for access control,…
Axon Wireless to integrate Tech5’s contactless fingerprint biometrics
Tech5, which provides biometrics and AI for digital identity management, will have its contactless fingerprint biometric capture and liveness detection…
Keyless goes independent, raises $6M, plans behavioral biometrics development
Keyless is spinning out from Sift, two years after being acquired by the fraud management provider, and has also raised…
EU’s largest public transport security project with Herta biometrics nears final stage
Europe has a plan to prevent terrorist attacks on public transportation with video analytics algorithms, possibly but not necessarily including…
Seeing and hearing a face – a different kind of multi-modal authentication
A UK yearling startup says it has put a fused voice and face biometric algorithm in the field, in banks….
Uganda suspends over 1.4M SIM cards not linked to users’ biometrics
An ongoing process which started on November 12 to deactivate SIM cards not biometrically registered in Uganda has seen over…
Crackdown on illegal birth certificates in China after hospital revelations
China is cracking down on the illegal trade in children’s birth certificates, which according to the country’s top health regulator…
Short seller sounds alarm on SenseTime revenues, citing smart city decline and fraud
SenseTime is defending itself from accusation of fabricating revenue, or at least a lack of risk management, by short seller…
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