UK govt urged to step up role in digital ID as public good at Westminster eForum
Digital identity is a public good which requires government support and regulation while tech and service providers are going to…
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8.6M fake ID users in UK: GBG report
Over eight million people in the UK have taken advantage of fake, fraudulent or someone else’s identity to access goods,…
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…
UK/EU border biometric checks pushed to end of 2023; plan still has foes
The introduction of the European Union’s Entry/Exit System (EES) at the Port of Dover has been delayed once again, reports…
Digital ID for nightclub entry: 1account trial results at odds with Home Office findings
With club entry taking under five seconds and a 90 percent preference for using digital ID over physical, 1account found…
UK age estimation trials and beyond: Innovative Technology
For the second in our series on participants in age estimation and digital identity trials for the purchase of alcohol…
Success of age estimation, digital ID trials in UK lead to pressure for changes to the law
The influential British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling for a change to the law to allow the use of age…
Fujitsu biometric self enrolment kiosks piloted for presentation attack detection
The Home Office in the United Kingdom will be running an unsupervised self-service kiosk trial in the UK relying on…
Facial recognition to identify Brazilian capital rioters, digital forensics even more
Brazil’s Federal Police are planning to use facial recognition to identify the perpetrators of attacks against the country’s federal agencies…
Digital wallets and biometrics to replace traditional payments in UK: Mastercard survey
Roughly half (51 percent) of people in the UK believe physical wallets will become less relevant as digital ways to…
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