Facial recognition named an oversight priority by Australian Information Commissioner
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has unveiled its regulatory priorities for 2025–26 as it juggles its oversight of…
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Report calls for halt to TSA’s ‘facial recognition experiment’
While industry stakeholders push to make biometrics the preferred option for global travel, digital rights groups are asking whether travelers…
New surveillance tech challenges conventional thinking on biometric privacy
Mass surveillance and crowd security are the areas in which biometrics most frequently runs into worries about privacy and social…
India gets public feedback to finetune digital personal data protection draft rules
The Indian government has announced that it received 6,915 comments from members of the public as well as stakeholders as…
Parental consent, age ranges are flaws in India’s data privacy act, say experts
A common complaint from opponents of age assurance technology is that parents should be the ones to decide what their…
Australian bank taps facial authentication data to challenge disputed transactions
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has reportedly been using facial recognition logins to its banking app to gauge whether customers…
New Zealand digital trust framework, associated rules coming into effect July 24
The government has published the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Rules 2024 governing accredited digital identity services. The document refers…
No end in sight for Clearview’s US biometric data privacy lawsuits
Roughly half of the United States want to put the breaks on a settlement agreed to and approved in a…
Pimeyes’ new tool will be able to search billions of faces through videos
Face image search engine Pimeyes has stirred controversy over its ability to pinpoint exactly where exactly on the vast internet…
Cybersecurity failures leave US Social Security data at risk
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a public rebuke of the Social Security Administration (SSA) for failing to resolve…
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