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,…
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Privately bringing on-device biometrics and age estimation to diverse market sectors
The desire to protect children from inappropriate content and goods is bound up with broader concerns about trust in the…
Biometrics emerge as key solution for gaming industry’s verification challenges
Biometric technology is seen as a solution for the gaming industry to robustly verify players’ identities and ages while providing…
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…
Lisnr, Clear partner for ultrasonic age verification through digital identity in retail
Lisnr is combining its data-over-sound technology with the age verification process of secure identity company Clear to allow Lisnr users…
Trust Stamp, Simunix partner to provide biometric, age verification tech to UK
Artificial intelligence-based identity and trust service provider Trust Stamp is partnering with Simunix, a provider of identity data on UK…
Digital ID for nightclub entry: 1account trial results at odds with Home Office findings
With club entry taking under five seconds and a 90 percent preference for using digital ID over physical, 1account found…
Biometrics growing now in airports, soon in payments and age estimation
Near-future biometric payments, and government digital identity initiatives in the UK and Congo make up several of the most widely-read…
UK age estimation trials and beyond: Innovative Technology
For the second in our series on participants in age estimation and digital identity trials for the purchase of alcohol…
Success of age estimation, digital ID trials in UK lead to pressure for changes to the law
The influential British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling for a change to the law to allow the use of age…
