Protecting our children from the Wild West Web
By Fergal Parkinson, Co-founder and Director, TMT Analysis With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day on the internet…
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Biometrics considered to answer tough policy questions as US rules settled
Biometric authentication systems are under attack by sophisticated hackers who target active liveness detection, the head of iProov told a…
Porn back as political hurdle for age verification in UK, Australia takes next step
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been prompted by his Conservative Party members to increase the strictness of age security…
Face and fingerprint biometrics for retail payments advancing by inches
Biometric technologies for retail payments made up a pair of the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update, in…
8.6M fake ID users in UK: GBG report
Over eight million people in the UK have taken advantage of fake, fraudulent or someone else’s identity to access goods,…
Jail time for UK tech bosses if they fail to keep children safe online
The UK’s Online Safety Bill evades defeat in its third reading in Parliament after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surrenders to…
euCONSENT reports improved age verification tests, Yoti gets another partner
euCONSENT reports updated trial figures and finds that standards-setting in age verification and bringing together competing suppliers have yielded equally…
Biometrics maturing for smartphones, smart cards and passports
Biometrics in consumer devices and technology to protect biometric data in passports continue to mature, as seen in several of…
UK unveils new laws to protect ‘revenge porn’ victims, including from deepfakes
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice has unveiled a new amendment to the Online Safety Bill to protect victims from…
Consensus builds on direction of digital identity interoperability, how to cut fraud
More collaboration among digital identity stakeholders is needed for everything from making reusable IDs interoperable to wrangling the massive waves…
