Microsoft urges enterprises to start exploring decentralized digital ID use cases
Microsoft is thinking about decentralized digital IDs, and it would like its customers to do the same. A marketing piece…
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Ecosystems approach to biometrics can plug regulatory gaps, WPF argues
The regulatory holes and risks that accompany today’s laws for biometric technology will require a holistic ecosystem perspective with a…
Security agencies granted access to Nigeria’s biometric database; Buhari faces lawsuit
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a nonprofit advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari…
Researchers warn edge computing’s biometric privacy promise is conditional
Not for the first time, the privacy community is looking at how biometric data can be most effectively and securely…
No end seen for parade of biometric privacy court cases as Maine bill advances
Maybe businesses that are collecting biometric data like it is sand on a public beach think privacy lawsuits are just…
UK Biometrics and Surveillance Commissioner asks pointed questions of vendors
Biometric surveillance raises a whole series of questions about ethics and public acceptance that go far beyond data protection and…
Alternative approaches to mobile device biometrics on the rise
Good news-bad news for Samsung in one of the most-read stories on Biometric Update this week, with an ultrasonic under-display…
Italian privacy authority fines Clearview AI €20M, orders biometrics deletion
The Italian privacy guarantor (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, or GPDP) has fined Clearview AI €20,000,000 (US$22 million)…
Can the world shake off COVID-19 biometric surveillance?
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has collated examples from around the world of instances of pandemic-related biometric surveillance and spoken to civil…
Health info and digital ID app in Canada integrates user managed access specification
Digital ID and access control vendor Identos says it has adopted the UMA 2.0 specification for the newly launched Ontario…
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