Days of facial recognition discussions uncover a tricky future for policymakers
The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine asked for a data dump on facial recognition, and for better…
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Looking back at spring digital ID challenge, FDIC and FinCEN find familiar shortcomings
The U.S government has released its analysis of a digital ID-proofing challenge held this spring. As befits a global and…
Paravision face biometrics contract with US Air Force expands
Computer vision firm Paravision has received an increase in funding for its U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)…
US immigration officials want everyone on same page before $500M biometric contract let
The U.S. government wants to hear from people about a virtual conference it plans to hold to talk about an…
NIST listening to AI community on a proposed risk management framework
The U.S. government wants everyone to do better at incorporating trust into their AI products’ design, development, use and evaluation….
CAT2 request goes out for facial recognition at US airports
The U.S. government is advertising for a vendor that can add face biometrics to its existing ability to validate document-credentialing…
Dignari selected to provide digital identity and access management services to US gov for $29M
Security firm Dignari will provide the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with identity,…
Some US regulators considering new consumer data privacy rules; others want to pass
Apparently not happy to court controversy one decision at a time, U.S. regulator the Federal Trade Commission is going for…
NIST’s image standards could become win/lose factor for govt biometrics contractors
The U.S. government is developing a vendor-neutral standard for assessing how useful an image might be for biometric identification. The…
The U.S. Congress-TikTok data privacy dance on a loop
It is hard to imagine an escape for the U.S. government and TikTok executives as they circle each other in…
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