Consumer data privacy rights advance in China, stall in India
The dominant mainland Asia economic powers, China and India, are tackling consumer privacy with proposed overarching legislation, but at the…
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US Army using VR helmet to link biometrics with automated systems
The United States Army is using a new suite of biometric software tools as it works towards using the data…
Mexico’s Supreme Court to hear case against biometric data collection requirement
Reuters is reporting that a new law passed in Mexico requiring telcos to collect customer biometric data is being challenged…
BLS International seals biometric services deal for Nigerians living in UK
A partnership deal has been struck between outsourcing service provider BLS International and data and digital enrolment services firm Files…
Philippines opens online digital ID registration for national system
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) in the Philippines said it will open registration for the country’s new national…
Microsoft and Samsung show work on health biometrics in patent filings
A patent application from Microsoft describing emotion detection by a biometric health monitoring system based on information gathered by wearables,…
Apple Watch biometric readings for COVID detection investigated
Apple has partnered with researchers from the University of Washington (UW) to explore how the Apple Watch could help predict…
Is the US getting serious about the trade in biometrics?
Two bills have been introduced in the U.S. Congress to end what now is a free-for-all among police and intelligence…
Judge blocks Mexico’s biometric cell phone registry requirement
A planned biometric registry of mobile phone users in Mexico has been partially blocked by a judge, who says it…
Data privacy concerns persist over national digital identity system for Jamaica
Concerns about the safety of personal data to be collected for Jamaica’s National Identity System (NIDS) program have again been…
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