Children, interoperability, billion-dollar fines and browser biometrics: the Online Safety Bill
The UK government’s effectively crowd-sourced draft Online Safety Bill has managed yet another twist. Gone is the provision to regulate…
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UIDAI sets guidelines for updating biometrics of children’s Aadhaar
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued new guidelines for the Aadhaar digital ID, Times of India reports….
Children’s digital identities are easier to defraud, harder to fix
Almost a million children in the U.S. were victims of identity fraud in the year ending October 2022, finds research…
Lesson unlearned: More US kids are being hit by digital ID fraud than last year
One in 43 U.S. children has had personal data exposed in a data breach in the last year, according to…
India’s IT Ministry mulls face biometrics age verification for games to protect children
An inter-ministerial task force led by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) recommends that online gaming companies use…
Entrenched positions on biometric surveillance in NY schools aired
The U.S. state of New York’s IT services agency listened last week to testimony about putting biometric ID and surveillance…
Texas parents to collect students’ biometrics; Sydney school loo-turns on fingerprints
Parents in Texas have been given the option to collect DNA samples of their children using freely distributed test kits,…
Instagram use of Yoti facial age verification spreads to India, Brazil
Instagram’s use of tests to attempt to verify age in certain cases, including the use of biometric facial analysis provided…
‘Harmful’ and ‘likely’: one-third of UK children have adult social media accounts
Children appear to be unphased by regulation, technology or age-appropriate design codes as they simply lie about their age to…
Nigeria’s Delta State to capture biometrics of 98K pupils as school meal program resumes
After a three-year hiatus, Nigeria’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is resuming in Delta State, with the capture of…
