Age verification: Striking the balance between security and privacy in bid for children’s online safety
By Robert Prigge, CEO of Jumio With children’s daily lives increasingly revolving around the internet, discussions around their online safety…
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Ghana re-announces issuance of ID numbers to babies, Uganda to register citizen school children
Babies born in Ghana on or after 31 March 2023 will be issued with a Ghana Card number, perhaps, whereas…
France explores age verification to access adult content
The Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) in France has developed prototype software to verify the ages of…
Age verification for porn access supported across UK electorate, finds poll
A survey for right-leaning TV news channel GB News finds that 78 percent of the British public support age verification…
Face biometrics in US schools getting more attention and funding
It seems long ago when the prevailing sentiment in the United States was that facial recognition surveillance had no place…
Uniqueness of fingerprints from birth explained in academic study
Definitive proof that fingerprints are a unique biometric at birth has been published by a team of academic researchers in…
What business needs to know about age ID verification as regulators step up legislation
By Liudas Kanapienis, CEO and co-founder of Ondato From the first of January this year, age checks for people visiting…
Scottish schools’ canteen facial recognition ‘likely infringed’ GDPR: ICO
A letter from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection authority, has told North Ayrshire Council (NAC) that…
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…
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…
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