Rights groups urge Scotland to grant Biometrics Commissioner broad oversight mandate
A coalition of rights advocacy groups has called on Scotland’s government to expand the scope of the proposed biometrics commissioner…
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Digital ID in Africa this week: mammoth biometric registration plans for Nigeria and Interpol in the Sahel
The sheer scale of the projects underway in Kenya and Nigeria mean that once again the two countries dominate Africa’s…
‘Prone to hacking’: expert witness in Kenya’s Huduma Namba hearings first round
“[The National Integrated Identity Management System] thus is an archaic design compared to modern-day systems architecture and can be rightly…
ICAO denies alleged privacy flaw in biometric passports
A group of researchers from the University of Luxemburg may have detected a critical security flaw in the International Civil…
Biometrics among critical data at major risk, say 30 percent of U.S. executives
More than 30 percent of executives in the U.S. fear critical employee and company data, including biometric details, are vulnerable…
Evident ID launches data privacy compliance tool for GDPR and CCPA
With Europe’s General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) substantially raising the bar for privacy…
ACM launches Technology Policy Council to guide advocacy efforts
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has announced the formation of the new ACM Technology Policy Council to coordinate the…
UNHCR works toward self-managed refugee identity with biometrics to improve settlement outcomes
The UNHCR has published a lecture on refugee inclusion and the future of humanitarian response at Roosevelt University, sharing insights…
Researchers introduce AI face anonymization model to secure privacy
The EU’s GDPR imposed strict regulations to protect individuals and their data, with companies otherwise facing hefty fines. However, if…
AI policy advisor says facial recognition bans could spread to states and federal government
The trend of bans on biometric facial recognition in U.S. cities will soon spread to states, and from there to…
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