McDonald’s settles employee biometric data privacy allegations for up to $50M
McDonald’s and franchisees will pay out up to $50 million to settle its biometric data privacy lawsuit involving employees of…
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Nigeria continues push to introduce digital tokens, digital ID verification temporarily halted
Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is going ahead with its plan of introducing tokens for the national identification number…
Controversy continues for ID.me with ‘inferred citizenship’ confusion
Biometric identity authentication firm ID.me is back in the headlines over its agreement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to be…
No pre-emption of Illinois biometric data privacy lawsuits from workers’ comp
Illinois’ worker compensation laws do not pre-empt its biometric data privacy laws, the State Supreme Court has ruled in a…
Three visions for biometrics regulation, all look iffy
A new assessment of the White House’s view of AI governance, particularly compared to that of the European Union, is…
Linking biometric databases is good, say India officials. Skeptics abound
Trust in biometrics systems used by the government is in short supply in some parts of India. The Indian state…
Māori data experts want indigenous data to be classified as a ‘treasured possession’
Legislative frameworks for digital identity and data to be introduced by the New Zealand government this year have been criticized…
Patchwork legislation for biometrics gets patchier
The landscape for biometrics regulation in the United States continues to grow more fragmented as recent efforts in Missouri and…
ICAO publishes public key Master List for digital health passes
A master list for authenticating digital health passes has been published by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to help…
ID4D report: 2022 to see significant progress towards ‘paradigm shift’ in digital ID
The World Bank Group’s ID4D (Identity for Development) division continued to work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic on projects and research across…
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