Growth of digital wallet use shaking up payment regulations and benefits delivery
Digital wallets are transforming online, offline and cross-border payments around the world, prompting calls for regulatory change in Australis and…
Israel
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Growing use of advocacy for facial recognition to identify deceased
India is considering the use of facial recognition to identify deceased persons and unidentified “found persons.” The proposal was put…
TSA targets 400 US airports for biometrics rollout
America’s network of airport biometric systems now includes hundreds of airports, but is slated to reach hundreds more in the…
Israel keeps emergency biometrics measures in place, more than a year into Gaza war
Last year, on October 7th, a Hamas attack on Israel plunged the country into a war against Gaza that would…
Israel is introducing new biometric technology on the border of West Bank: report
Israel has been quietly introducing new biometric border technology for Palestinians traveling between the country and the Palestinian territory of…
Israel to collect biometrics of visiting foreign nationals
Identification of foreign nationals is becoming important to prevent identity fraud, where. The Knesset Plenum in Israel has passed a…
IBM loses institutional investor over biometrics sales to Israel
A major Norwegian assets management company Storebrand says it has got rid of its investments in US technology company IBM…
Israel begins pilot for online biometric passport renewals on specific conditions
Holders of Israeli biometric passports who want to renew them can henceforth do so online, but not every passport user…
EU rights groups demand revision to data transfer deal with Israel
More than ten human rights groups have signed a letter protesting the European Union’s decision to continue personal data transfers…
Wars prompt questions for facial recognition providers, and obscure the answers
The fog of war is obscuring details about a pair of contracts involving facial recognition developers; one Russian, one Israeli….
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