Canadian provincial privacy commissioner chides major retailer for biometrics deployment
At least four British Columbia locations of iconic national retailer Canadian Tire failed to show a reasonable purpose for their…
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4 US governments get biometric privacy rules on the table, off the ground
U.S. state and local governments are pinching off the abilities of businesses to freely use facial recognition algorithms on their…
Unsolicited text messages to Zimbabwe voters raise data privacy concerns
Short Message Services (SMSs) sent to registered voters in Zimbabwe lately urging them to throw their support behind incumbent President…
Age assurance tech providers wrestle with growing demand, privacy concerns
Age assurance is one of the hottest topics in digital identity at the moment, but does not necessarily need to…
US biometric data privacy suit nets Jumio and crypto firm Binance
A U.S. federal judge has rejected two of three defendants’ motions to dismiss a biometric data privacy case. The three…
Keyless execs tout privacy protections of combined FIDO and server-side biometrics
Decentralization and novel encryption methods are coming to the rescue of privacy-preserving biometric authentication, Keyless executives Paolo Gasti and Gal…
India study shows half fine with surveillance, one-fifth unaware
A new report on surveillance technology in India has uncovered a high level of public support for certain forms of…
World Economic Forum panel pushes for blockchain-based decentralized digital ID
The Digital Identity Initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been discussing the possibilities of agreeing on an international…
Distributed biometrics hold promise of privacy and usability in remote authentication
Biometrics experts from Keyless and the New York Institute of Technology will join Biometric Update for a webinar on a…
New Amazon biometric-scan cases in media-saturated NYC could add to tech opposition
Amazon is fighting two new federal biometric privacy lawsuits involving its Go physical stores, both of which were filed in…
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