FTC settlement targets sale of mobile location data linked to sensitive sites
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has moved to prohibit Sandpoint, Idaho-based data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based…
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Canada regulator backs privacy-preserving age assurance
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has published a policy note and guidance documents pertaining to age…
Harvard, Linux Foundation launch open-source wallet for selective data sharing
The internet is seeing a wide-scale push towards identity verification and age assurance, but the question remains: how can users…
California nears vote on social media age checks amid privacy clash
Debate surrounding California’s latest age assurance law is seeing rhetoric amp up on both sides of the issue, with lawmakers…
Wicket, Paciolan deal opens up big market for biometric ticketing at college sports
Biometric ticketing and facial authentication company Wicket has announced a partnership with Paciolan, which provides ticketing, fundraising, marketing, and analytics…
AI regulation set to become US midterm battleground
The fight over AI regulation in Congress is becoming less a conventional technology policy debate than a struggle over who…
Eurail breach exposes passport data, fuels dark web identity trade
The fallout from a data breach at Eurail is raising fresh concerns about identity fraud, after stolen personal data from…
US lawmakers push national data privacy rules amid state preemption concerns
House Republicans this week introduced a pair of sweeping data privacy bills designed to create parallel national frameworks for the…
Your regulation-compliant KYC is not enough to protect customer data
By Konstantin Bulatov, Ph.D., CTO of OCR Studio KYC (Know-Your-Customer) is no longer just about convenience and conversion. In today’s…
French gov’t confirms hack of at least 18M records from ID document database
France’s government has confirmed that a database storing records of identity documents suffered a breach of millions of entries containing…
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