Centralized, decentralized or neither: which national digital ID system will you choose?
Are you in the market for a national digital identity system, but cannot make up your mind? We take a…
data protection
Biometric Update regularly releases news about the topic "data protection." The following list of links is available to help you find biometrics news regarding "data protection" and other relevant terms. More topics may be perused by accessing our entire Biometrics Topics list.
Amadeus turns to Azure cloud to orchestrate biometrics and other airport systems
As digital transformation becomes increasingly important for businesses of all sizes, technology provider Amadeus is using the cloud to help…
Rays of hope for BIPA defendants and plaintiffs in two cases
No matter where biometric data privacy cases in Illinois go — to state or federal courts — the question remains:…
Law enforcement and civil society grapple with facial recognition policy, transparency
Civil society groups around the world are calling for greater transparency in uses of facial recognition by police, and the…
Potential ways to avoid digital ID’s dark side concludes ID4Africa trilogy
Different digital identity systems and technologies were considered in ID4Africa’s final livecast of trilogy on ‘The Dark Side of Identity,’…
Irish biometric public services access card not to be mandatory
The Irish government has backed down from a legal challenge against the country’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) on usage of…
NEC streamlines 1:N biometric matches for homomorphic encryption to protect data
Homomorphic encryption for biometric matching holds the promise of data protection even in use, and NEC Corporation is the latest technology…
€2.8M funding for startup Mobai’s biometric data protection project
Enhanced face biometrics, presentation attack detection, face quality assessment and biometric template protection in the Scandinavian banking sector are the…
Evernym acquisition sets next chapter for self-sovereign identity in Europe
There was big news in the world of self-sovereign digital identity last week, with the announcement of Avast acquiring Evernym….
Striving for a fairer, more inclusive world – Turing Institute digital identity conference
Do countries need entirely new, purpose-built systems for digital ID rather than expanding existing systems? How reliable are algorithms? What…
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