UK govt tells online porn users to show their faces for biometric age checks
Facial age estimation, biometric photo ID matching, bank or mobile ID and digital wallets are all effective options for age…
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AI deciders targeted for regulation in California
California regulators have published draft rules for automated decision making. Broad and sweeping guidelines would govern consumer access and opt-out…
Biometric legislation increasingly out of date, says Australia’s new privacy commissioner
Rapid changes in biometric technology are a challenge to regulators, while legislative approaches to applications such as keystroke and eye…
Facial recognition among new restrictions Meta is fighting in U.S. courts
Meta is pushing back against a federal court decision allowing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to seek to impose new…
Smart home market embracing edge biometrics for improved security and privacy
Smart home systems, equipped with biometric recognition capabilities, are generating a substantial amount of data through their IoT devices, typically…
Fingerprints all over India as states add experts and police seek Aadhaar biometrics
The fingerprint unit of Haryana’s state crime records bureau (SRCB), which provides biometric verification and analysis for fingerprints collected at…
New Zealand plans public consultations on draft biometrics code in early 2024
The Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand Michael Webster says an exposure draft of a biometrics code will be released for…
French politicians vow legal action on alleged illegal facial recognition use by police
A recent report that the French national police has been using a facial recognition system from Israel illegally for the…
ZeroBiometrics wins patent for biometric cryptography method
ZeroBiometrics has patented a method of generating reproducible cryptographic keys from biometric entropy and performing biometric authentication, both using zero-knowledge…
UK ICO seeks to appeal data privacy decision on Clearview AI
The Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) has issued a statement outlining its concerns with the findings of the First Tier Tribunal…
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