Mobile ID can bring both convenience and citizen privacy
By David Kelts, Director of Product Development, Mobile Identity, GET Group North America Many U.S. states are implementing mobile driver’s…
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New Zealand close behind Australia in establishing consumer data right legislation
New Zealand Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister David Clark plans to create a consumer data right legislation for consumers to…
‘Little progress’ at state level for EU biometric database: report
National-level delays among EU and Schengen area states participating in the formation of a massive shared biometric identity database threaten…
Aware and Iris ID partner to bring FBI iris biometrics to state and local agencies
Aware and Iris ID have partnered to expand the biometric identification capabilities of state and local agencies across the U.S. for criminal…
UNHCR shared Rohingya biometric data ‘without consent’
The UNHCR improperly gathered personal information and biometrics from ethnic Rohingya refugees and shared it with Bangladesh, which subsequently shared…
Guinea selects Idemia for OSIA digital identity system to drive inclusion
Guinea’s National Agency for Economic and Social Inclusion (ANIES) plans to use a digital identity and biometrics management system based…
‘Looming dangers’ of biometrics collection under guise of counterterrorism studied
A series of global events have led to the growing and untransparent use of biometrics collection under the pretext of…
Analysis says proposed Eurodac children’s biometrics collection carries legal risks
Proposed amendments to the Eurodac biometric system, which would make official the lower minimum age for biometrics collection and add…
San José State engineer gets grant to safeguard biometric data from NSF
Nima Karimian, assistant professor of computer engineering at the San José State University, has received a grant from the National…
Australian Ministers agree to work on national digital ID data sharing agreement
Data and Digital Ministers in Australia have agreed to work towards an agreement on data sharing and establishing a national…
