Porn back as political hurdle for age verification in UK, Australia takes next step
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been prompted by his Conservative Party members to increase the strictness of age security…
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Jail time for UK tech bosses if they fail to keep children safe online
The UK’s Online Safety Bill evades defeat in its third reading in Parliament after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surrenders to…
How social login is pushing passwords into an early grave
By Deepak Gupta, CTO & Co-Founder of LoginRadius Passwords are a thing of the past. They’re too hard to remember, they don’t…
Kids are guinea pigs in schools’ biometric data privacy experiments
No global generation of kids, not the Xers, not even the Boomers will be as influential around the world as…
A proposal for responsible deepfakes
A small academic and corporate team of researchers say they have created a way to preserve the biometric privacy of…
Facebook Dating uses Yoti age estimation to keep out minors
Facebook Dating becomes the latest product from Meta to use Yoti’s facial analysis technology for age estimation to restrict the…
AI might help you give face scrapers the deformed finger
Born as weird abstraction, AI imagery is finding its way to consumer usefulness. Two algorithms demonstrate that while AI is…
Children’s digital identities are easier to defraud, harder to fix
Almost a million children in the U.S. were victims of identity fraud in the year ending October 2022, finds research…
Yoti age estimation software embedded in gambling machines
Yoti’s age estimation technology is being piloted in gambling machines or 18+ gaming terminals in the UK provided by Regal…
What ‘human authentication’ really means
By Bob Eckel, President and CEO, Aware, Inc. Over the last several months of the ongoing Twitter/Elon Musk lawsuit, Musk…
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