Tech industry group pushes back against Ofcom age assurance guidance
Industry-funded consortium Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (DTSP), which includes members such as Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple, has pushed…
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Proposed COPPA changes would expand biometrics definition
Forty-three U.S. states acting as a group have told the Federal Trade Commission they want it to update and strengthen…
One US school backs out of biometrics contract, another is going big
With almost no explanation, a high school in the U.S. state of Maine reportedly has backed out of a biometric…
Wizz dials up biometrics from Yoti to prevent sextortion, achieve EU compliance
Add “sextortion” to the lexicon of online threats prompting movement in the digital ID and age verification space. Wizz, the…
The UK’s Online Safety Act is live; now for the hard part
The UK’s pioneering regulatory effort on internet safety has provided direction and arrived at a significant consensus on desired outcomes,…
Fingerprint scans for 7-year-olds? Could happen at EU borders this year
The popular image of government biometrics is video with CGI framing faces in a crowd and thumbs pressed onto scanners….
AVPA flags AI, distrust in government and big tech as hurdles for age verification
On February 27 at 10am EST, Biometric Update will host a webinar entitled Age Verification: Lessons Learned from the UK,…
Age verification is a prickly unknown for at least one US state
A new U.S. state age-verification law will take effect in March 1 and the government still does not have rules…
Age verification laws in the UK and US reassessed
While lawmakers around the world remind us to think of the children, digital identity watchdogs and citizen groups say restrictive…
To grow biometric datasets, Google and Telus will pay $50 for short videos of children
The question of how to train face biometrics algorithms often comes with concerns about consent in the use of publicly…
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