Knee-deep in biometric oversight, Australia’s OAIC juggles age assurance, digital ID, FRT
Australia is continuing its push to beef up online privacy and safety laws with a strategy focused on biometrics, having…
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Trump’s firing of FTC members puts US-EU data transfers at risks, legal experts say
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission may jeopardize trans-Atlantic personal data transfers,…
Estonia floats LPR and traffic monitoring AI, critics fear FRT
Estonian politicians are worried that introducing new traffic technology could mean facial recognition surveillance. The government wants to replace stationary…
DOGE’s influence at SSA triggers legal and congressional scrutiny
An affidavit in support of an amended complaint and motion for emergency relief to halt Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s…
Surveillance, identity and the right to go missing
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Do we have a right to go missing? The global…
Unissey, Opale.io partner to address biometric ID, age assurance regulations
Biometric identity verification provider Unissey and age assurance firm Opale.io are collaborating on an age check product that combines the…
Sri Lanka biometric data to be secured with hashing
Sri Lanka will secure the biometric data for its national ID system in hashed form. This one-way technology converts biometric…
World launches World Chat mini app to connect with World App, World ID
Any mega-platform worth its salt has a chat feature, and now the World Network does, too. Last week the company…
Missouri moves closer to a biometric privacy act
Three Missouri bills, House Bill 407, House Bill 500, and Senate Bill 554, have passed second readings as part of…
Australia’s privacy watchdog publishes regulatory strategy prioritizing biometrics
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has launched a new digital ID regulatory strategy mapping out how it…
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