Renewed attempt to ban biometric monitoring in public housing
Unhappy with the prospect of turning federally subsidized housing into biometric fishbowls occupied by indigent, elderly and disabled citizens, U.S….
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Vouched provides assurance of biometric data security and privacy with ISO certification
Vouched has achieved certification for ISO/IEC 27001 for compliant Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), and the ISO/IEC 27701 extension standard for…
Tencent low-light facial recognition to check night-time gaming among children
Tencent Games, one of China’s biggest gaming companies, says it has deployed a facial recognition platform dubbed ‘Midnight Patrol’ with…
U.S. pols probe Uber, Lyft about facial recognition tech facing riders
Biometric privacy is not something most U.S. consumers worry — or even know — about yet, but news of facial…
Paravision appoints biometrics industry leader Benji Hutchinson president and COO
Just months after being named the head of NEC National Security Systems, noted biometrics industry expert Benji Hutchinson has joined…
Court rules Apple possesses users’ biometric data, privacy suit goes ahead
While biometric templates generated by Apple’s Photos app are stored on the device in the control of the user, they…
Get out the sewing kit. More piecemeal ideas for regulating AI are in the works
Patchwork regulation of face biometrics by governments — including a proposed mild set of rules in China’s oldest special economic…
Behavioral biometrics: Simple and secure way to authenticate consumers’ digital identities
By Hal Granoff, Head of U.S. Market Development at Callsign Apart from the long-term impact on our society, the COVID-19…
Canadian liquor and cannabis retailers’ biometrics use found inappropriate
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (B.C.) found via a review that some private sector licensed…
A tri-polar privacy world: China, EU, US conflict on rights regimes
There’s an old African saying: When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. And when elephants make love,…
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