| Weekend Reading : Mar 16, 2024 |
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| Biometrics pilots and protocol interoperability set up scale-ups |
| Partnerships making biometrics work across protocols and expanding pilot projects are common elements across many of the most-read articles on…Read More |
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| Humans more likely to notice fakes among familiar faces, research suggests |
| Deepfakes and synthetic data, and how they impact biometric systems was the focus of the… |
| AI Act passes EU parliament, arguments on implementation and implications heat up |
| The European Union’s AI Act has been approved by European Parliament by a wide margin.… |
| Everyone in facial recognition wants to impress US civil rights commission |
| More than a dozen people met this week with the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to… |
| US government assailed for its facial recognition policies |
| A trio of outsiders view the U.S. government’s justice and security departments, including members of… |
| Passwords are in decline but passkeys struggle with an easy explanation |
| The technical head of the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has given passwords another… |
| AML regulations in the UK might get softened |
| The UK isn’t deregulating its money-laundering rules, but officials say they want those rules to… |
| EU regulators aim for frictionless age verification, interoperability |
| Changes in age verification are on the minds of many legislators, regulators and providers. A… |
| Tech industry group pushes back against Ofcom age assurance guidance |
| Industry-funded consortium Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (DTSP), which includes members such as Google, Meta,… |
| Proposed COPPA changes would expand biometrics definition |
| Forty-three U.S. states acting as a group have told the Federal Trade Commission they want… |
| Australia senators stress accreditation for digital ID service providers |
| Australia’s long, long walk toward implementation of a digital ID scheme has taken another step.… |
| Swiss digital identity law approved by parliament lower house |
| The Swiss parliament is preparing to debate a new law regulating its digital identity, paving… |
| Tunisia biometric ID card and passport law approved by parliament |
| After years of delay and criticism from civil society over lacking data protection, the Tunisian… |
| Digital ID part of social contract between govt, citizens: World Bank, Verizon chiefs |
| The President of the World Bank Group, Ajay Banga, and the Chairman and Chief Executive… |
| CSIS encourages private sector DPI investment as UN pushes for safeguards |
| An advocacy paper published by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a public… |
| Burkina Faso’s digital transformation gets $150M World Bank support |
| Efforts by the government of Burkina Faso to speed up the country’s digital public infrastructure… |
| Ethiopia begins issuing refugees digital ID cards to facilitate service access |
| The distribution of digital ID cards to Ethiopian refugees and returnees, as part of a… |
| Ukrainian digital ID app Diia goes open-source |
| Ukraine wants to make it easier for other countries to build up their digital identity… |
| NADRA’s digital solutions empowering Pakistan’s e-government initiatives |
| The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) of Pakistan has emerged as a beacon of… |
| SSI advocates welcome EU digital wallet, IOTA sees opportunity |
| Self-sovereign identity (SSI) advocates are celebrating a win after the European Parliament approved legislation last… |
| EU digital identity wallet pilots advance as IDnow unveils Soteria pilot |
| A digital identity wallet pilot implementation is beginning in Europe to deliver a user-centric tool… |
| Norwegian BankID digital ID now biometric, available on smartphones |
| Norway’s biggest digital identity provider, BankID, is coming to smartphones. Starting on Monday, the platform… |
| Iceland updates ID cards as Frontex warns of document fraud in EU |
| Frontex detected 22,300 fraudulent identity documents on the EU’s external borders in 2023, while Greece… |
| Telangana police tender a big biometric upgrade with a short turnaround |
| The Indian state of Telangana has published a rushed tender call to upgrade the police’s… |
| J.P. Morgan plans biometric payments rollout with PopID in 2025 |
| J.P. Morgan is trialing biometric payments powered by PopID‘s commercial identification with more retailers in… |
| Yoti face biometrics ready for businesses facing age verification laws, says CEO |
| Age estimation and face matching are hot products for digital identity and biometrics providers. Governments… |
| Yubico releases multi-protocol edition of its biometric security key |
| Yubico is adding a multi-protocol edition to its line of biometric hardware security keys for… |
| Regula rolls out upgraded ID document scanner for border security |
| Regula, the Latvia-based biometric identity verification and forensics research firm, has released an upgrade to… |
| Smart Engines AI can scan multiple ID documents at once to simplify verification |
| Software development company Smart Engines has developed AI for multi-document recognition to fight fraud. The… |
| Nigeria’s Youverify receives $2.5M in funding for biometrics, AML |
| Youverify, a biometrics and AI-powered AML and KYC service provider based in Lagos and San… |
| Generative AI enabling identity fraud at scale: Au10tix report |
| An eight month-long identity fraud campaign coordinated by organized crime groups has attempted 22,080 fraudulent… |
| PXL Vision to collaborate with Idiap for research project to fight deepfakes |
| Swiss digital identity provider PXL Vision is collaborating with the Idiap Research Institute in a… |
| Tech5 face biometrics deployed for Digital Travel Credential pilot in Finland |
| A Digital Travel Credentials pilot has been launched in Finland with Tech5 providing the face… |
| New chief execs appointed at Fingerprint Cards, Socure, Proof and Liminal |
| Fingerprint Cards says Fredrik Hedlund will be its new chief financial officer, effective March 18.… |
| Worldcoin security audit shows safe biometrics handling, limited data collection |
| A security assessment by Trail of Bits says Worldcoin’s software for biometrics collection with its… |
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