Vietnam releases draft digital identity and authentication guidelines
Vietnam is pushing ahead with its plan of developing digital governance as the country’s Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC)…
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UK plans to make digital ID ‘as trusted as passports’
The British government is planning a governing body charged with making digital identities “as trusted as passports” by augmenting their…
Risk of foreign biometric surveillance highlighted by UK Commissioner
The UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has written a new letter to Baroness Williams, Minister of…
Digital ID insiders want to know: When will Congress do its job?
A theme developed during a committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol last week — digital identity as infrastructure, not something…
Some states reject facial recognition for police, but a groundswell may be building
The Security Industry Association, maybe with a premature sigh of relief, is reporting that measures calling for significant restrictions on…
Governments consider digital health pass rules, seek balance between safety and exclusion
Event venues in the UK are being asked to adopt digital health passes to prevent the spread of COVID-19 “as…
The key to coherent biometrics laws? It might be found in people who’ve been wronged
The political left and right in the United States each now have their martyrs to indifferent and inaccurate facial recognition…
Police in Israel want greater freedom to use facial recognition
Israeli politicians are considering limits on how police use face biometrics to surveil the Middle Eastern nation, including its borders…
IPOs, deployments and analysis aligned: face biometrics growth is exploding
Face biometrics were the top theme of the week on Biometric Update, with implementations for remote customer onboarding, identity verification,…
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…
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