| Weekend Reading : Apr 20, 2025 |
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| Biometrics adoption strategies benefit when government direction is clear |
| Biometrics providers have major growth opportunities ahead where there is clarity about their role. What part governments play in digital…Read More |
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| Biometric Update Podcast digs into deepfakes with Pindrop CEO |
| Deepfakes are one of the biggest issues of our age. But while video deepfakes get… |
| Au10tix, Veridos, Secunet name new CEOs |
| Au10tix has appointed Yair Tal as its new CEO. He succeeds former CEO Dan Yerushalmi,… |
| Global airports approach replacement of passports with face biometrics |
| Face biometrics will replace airline check-ins and boarding passes globally, if a change proposed by… |
| Digital travel ID app close for EU but integration, governance questions remain |
| The EU needs to establish a dedicated working group of experts to ensure that the… |
| EU age assurance app raises question: should governments pay to protect kids from porn? |
| A truth that came into sharp focus at the 2025 Global Age Assurance Standards Summit… |
| Double blind age assurance requirement for porn sites takes effect in France |
| France is getting harder on online porn. The nation began enforcing Europe’s first age assurance… |
| US Corporate Transparency Act rollbacks create customer ID verification needs |
| U.S. companies will no longer have to comply with beneficial ownership reporting, thus pressuring banks… |
| How Geo Group tech became a cornerstone of Trump’s immigration crackdown |
| The story of a Honduran immigrant living in Louisiana captures the troubling transformation of U.S.… |
| UK register of digital identity and attribute services launches in beta |
| An announcement from the UK government’s Office for Digital Identities and Attributes (OfDIA) says its… |
| UK digital identity scheme needs to consider commercial viability, panel says |
| Commercial viability is important for the UK’s digital identity scheme, and that means collaboration between… |
| Gov.uk to grow while private sector digital ID app adoption flattens: Juniper |
| Nearly 20 million people in the UK are about to adopt digital identity apps, according… |
| OpenAI to introduce IDV screening for organizations |
| Approximately 10 percent of the world’s population – some 800 million people – are using… |
| From hiring to management, deepfake scams target remote workplace |
| Companies large and small are becoming increasingly targeted by AI-generated personas such as fake job… |
| Uganda launching 5 MOSIP modules for national digital ID |
| Uganda is just weeks away from launching five MOSIP modules for its national biometric digital… |
| Texas’ expanding AI surveillance state outpaces legislative oversight |
| In recent years, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly constructed a powerful… |
| NSW Police abandons Cognitec’s facial recognition |
| New South Wales police have deactivated facial recognition capabilities in their suspect identification system following… |
| UAE announces ‘eliminating’ ID cards with biometric identification |
| The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced it has developed and tested biometric identification systems… |
| Thales helping Iraq build biometric data center, integrate ID and forensic systems |
| A new data center is under construction in Iraq, in partnership with Thales, to integrate… |
| Microsoft signs up Australian employee screener for biometric liveness detection |
| Microsoft face biometrics and liveness detection have been integrated for facial authentication by employee identity… |
| The future of DARPA’s quantum benchmarking initiative |
| DARPA started the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) in July 2024 to expand hardware capabilities and… |
| NIST updates Privacy Framework to better align with new Cybersecurity Framework |
| In biometrics and digital identity discussions, privacy and security are often grouped together in theory… |
| ODNI launches IC data consortium solicitation to reform commercial data acquisition |
| In a significant move to reshape how the Intelligence Community (IC) acquires and manages commercial… |
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