Biometrics considered to answer tough policy questions as US rules settled
Biometric authentication systems are under attack by sophisticated hackers who target active liveness detection, the head of iProov told a…
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Scottish schools’ canteen facial recognition ‘likely infringed’ GDPR: ICO
A letter from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection authority, has told North Ayrshire Council (NAC) that…
A big BIPA decision: Plaintiffs have 5 years to file biometrics claims
A lawsuit limitation decision involving biometrics privacy has been handed down by the U.S. state of Illinois’ Supreme Court. It…
Dutch watchdog has doubts about centralizing passport biometrics data
Proposals for central biometric databases, especially government databases, are popular with anyone fed up with maddeningly fragmented identity system standard…
No facial recognition at 2024 Olympics, French privacy watchdog tells parliament
The French parliament has been urged not to consider deploying facial recognition at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics event by…
Face biometrics dropped by Verkada in 4 US locales as data protection gains momentum
Legal restrictions on the use of facial recognition have prompted security camera vendor Verkada to shut down the capability in…
SITA enters deal to improve management of passengers’ biometric data
SITA has signed a partnership deal with travel ID verification and data sharing company Zamna, which will enhance the former’s…
Pair of scientists think they have topped homomorphic encryption
Japanese researchers say they have created a way to perform computations with encrypted data faster, more cheaply and more securely…
Defining remote biometric identification technically and legally
For a more accurate discussion on what remote biometric identification is and current and potential laws around it, the association…
Open Metaverse Foundation established to build standards and open-source software
Nonprofit Linux Foundation has created a new organization to provide a space for different industries to collaborate on developing open-source…
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