More bad news for Mexico’s proposed nationwide biometrics collection scheme
Mexico’s proposed mobile phone registry, which would collect biometric identifiers from all phone-account owners in the nation, this week was…
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Potentially devastating digital ID hack in Argentina could have many ripples
Demonstrating just how hard it is going to be to engender trust in public or private biometric systems, a hacker…
Apple patents illumination arrays for Face ID, MacBooks will have to wait
Face ID could build in a way to project a pattern of illumination during authentication to detect more types of…
‘Cell’ being built in US to net migrants using biometrics and other surveillance
A pair of news reports indicate that the U.S. government is creating an intelligence “cell” that will use electronic surveillance,…
B-Secur brings ECG biometrics to STMicroelectronics partnership for wearables development
Companies developing wearable devices which use a person’s unique heartbeat biometrics for encrypted health data collection or authentication will be…
Scottish schools serving up fresh privacy debate for lunch with facial recognition payment
Pupils at nine schools in Scotland have started paying for school lunches via facial recognition, thought to be the first…
Study shines positive light on biometric wearables, and feds are looking
Predictive health checks performed by wrist-wearables that record a person’s biometrics are possible, according to a small study. They are…
Aussie convenience store took face biometrics without consent — privacy regulator
It probably sounded like a good idea at the time. Convenience-store chain 7-Eleven reportedly used biometrics-based facial analysis systems in…
Yoti says no biometric data in age estimation tech, takes issue with UK ICO opinion
Some of the opinions about age estimation expressed by a UK regulator do not apply to Yoti’s facial age estimation…
Non-biometric EU ID cards no longer valid to enter the UK
Crossing the UK border with a national identity card is no longer possible for EU, EEA and Swiss citizens, as…
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