UK shuts down privacy and inclusion advisory group for One Login
The UK’s Government Digital Service has shuttered a group providing advice on how to make its Gov.uk One Login program…
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FTC begins compensation phase of Avast privacy violation settlement
As part of a landmark $16.5 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that UK-based software provider…
Indian Post Office portal vulnerabilities expose Aadhaar data details
An Indian cybersecurity expert and ethical hacker, Gokuleswaran B, has raised the alarm on some Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)…
World has first hiccup in Philippines as regulator issues statement on biometric scans
Days after the iris biometrics and proof of personhood (PoP) initiative World announced its launch in the Philippines, the country’s…
Email address age assurance is private, compliant and simple: VerifyMy, Yoti
Email is the technology that never dies, and now it has a use case for age estimation. Both VerifyMy and…
Internal feud rages over unvetted DOGE access to federal IT systems
Behind the scenes, tensions are rising between the White House and Intelligence Community (IC), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),…
New Zealand govt reviews privacy law amid battle over biometrics regulation
The government of New Zealand has been quietly reviewing the country’s privacy laws to identify legal barriers to the use…
US lawmakers try again for federal data privacy bill
In an effort to establish a comprehensive national data privacy standard – something lawmakers on both sides of the political…
Privacy, free speech, children’s online safety collide in age assurance legal wars
By this point, the amount of collective hand wringing over children’s online safety and related age assurance legislation could surely…
Maldives’ govt promises control over data through digital ID after party membership scandal
The Maldives’s national digital identity will allow citizens to be notified whenever a government agency or other authority gains access…
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