Security of federal information systems, protecting PII remains ‘high risk issue’
In recent years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued literally dozens of audit reports to Congress and appropriate federal…
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Scottish government proposes immediate deletion of expired facial images in new biometrics code
The Scottish government has won praise from the Open Rights Group with a draft Code of Practice which, if implemented…
Courts, inquiry both reviewing Aadhaar security measures
Delhi High Court judges have requested a written response from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to a petition…
Gait recognition could provide biometric cryptography to protect wearable data transmission
The limited computational power of body sensor network (BSN) devices such as wearables makes it difficult to secure the sensitive…
Biometrics and blockchain will beat credit card fraudsters
This is a guest post by Alastair Johnson, CEO of Nuggets. It’s a tragedy of the times we live in…
Juniper Research predicts 146 billion digital records will be stolen by 2023
The number of digital records stolen by cybercriminals will increase by 175 percent from 12 billion in 2018 to 33…
UIDAI plans public outreach to educate on safe sharing of Aadhaar details
As controversy continues to swirl around the largest biometric identity program in the world, India’s Unique Identification Authority of India…
U.S. officials weigh introducing biometric exit data rules for partners
Federal officials are considering writing protections for the biometric data of travelers into the rules of the biometric exit program,…
Biometrics: obstacles and opportunities in healthcare
This is a guest post by Dan Cidon, Chief Technology Officer at NextGate. During the last decade a technological transformation…
Dataram launches portable biometric data encryption device
Enterprise IT and data center solutions provider Dataram Memory has launched a portable biometric security device with an embedded fingerprint…
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