Digital ID talk in Europe can’t get past centralization question
A roundtable discussion this week sponsored by the European Parliament about digital identities only deviated from boilerplate sentiment about the…
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Pangea and IDnow pitch biometric immunity credentials, Nomidio CEO calls for trusted identity guardian
Pangea has launched an end-to-end platform for issuing biometric smartcard-based COVID-19 immunity or travel credentials in an effort to support the…
Amnesty pushes for ban on facial recognition use for mass surveillance by police, government
Amnesty International is supporting the Algorithmic Justice League, the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation in their fight against biometric facial recognition technology use for…
Australian rights advocates criticize use of facial biometrics by police, government
Australian Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow is pushing for more rigorous facial recognition regulation to prevent law enforcement from abusing…
Onfido pushes for a unitary EU regulatory framework for digital identity verification
As digital identity plays a valuable part in financial services and tech ecosystems in Europe to ensure the customer is…
Microsoft joins the crowd in declining to sell facial biometrics to U.S. police until federal law in place
Microsoft has followed Amazon and IBM in declaring it does not sell facial recognition technology to police in the United States,…
Amazon pauses sale of facial biometrics to police while advocates push Microsoft and Ring to follow
Amazon has put a one-year moratorium on direct sales of its biometric facial recognition service to law enforcement to allow for…
Facial biometrics and smart city technology rise in Asia gets new incentive from pandemic
Facial recognition and other smart city technologies could be rolled out more quickly in Japan over the coming months, after…
Biometrics experts call for creation of FDA-style government body to regulate facial recognition
Could a U.S. government agency modeled on the Food and Drug Administration that categorizes biometric facial recognition technologies according to…
China’s face-scanning regulations are fuzzy and self-serving
The only certainty about biometric facial recognition in China is that everyone’s face is being recognized. A lot. As a…
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