Regulator accused of inaction as Namibian telco unlawfully collects biometrics
There are concerns in Namibia that the country’s largest mobile communications company, MTC, has been collecting the fingerprint and face…
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There are concerns in Namibia that the country’s largest mobile communications company, MTC, has been collecting the fingerprint and face…
The European Union’s data protection supervisor (EDPS), Wojciech Wiewiórowski, has recently revealed that European institutions and bodies often afford limited…
Two United States government documents about the use of biometric identification in occupied Afghanistan lack any mention of data security…
The personal data and biometrics of thousands of desperately poor people in India’s Tamil Nadu state, some waiting 20 years…
There is greater clarity today regarding a key provision of the state of Illinois’ biometric privacy law, landmark legislation in…
The lower house of Russia’s federal parliament, the State Duma, has adopted a law setting up a legal framework for…
Enterprise ID verifier Mitek is running out of exits before it approaches the Biometric Information Protection Act toll plaza. A…
The COVID-19 pandemic spread more than just viral infection, with trends in surveillance presenting new concerns about personal data risk…
A surveillance systems company unfamiliar outside its native China is coming into view as Beijing pushes biometrics recognition into more…
Global human rights watchdog Access Now has called on a mobile telecommunications company in Kenya, Safaricom, to delete all face…