Australia Issues Strict Privacy Guidelines for Commercial Facial Recognition Technology
Australia’s privacy regulator has released detailed guidelines for private sector organizations using facial recognition technology (FRT) in commercial and…
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Tools for Humanity Acquires Modulus Labs to Boost Zero-Knowledge AI and Cryptography Research
Tools for Humanity (TFH), a key contributor to the World Network digital identity platform, announced today that Modulus Labs is joining the company to form a…
Photobucket Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over AI Data Sale Plans
Photo-sharing platform Photobucket is facing a class action lawsuit over its recent privacy policy update, which disclosed plans to sell users’ photos and…
Illinois Judge Denies Class Certification in Hotel Workers’ Biometric Privacy Lawsuit Against Unifocus
An Illinois federal judge has denied class certification in a case involving hotel workers who accused software provider Unifocus of violating the state’s…
Nigeria Launches $83M Tender for National Digital ID System Modernization
Nigeria has launched an $83 million tender for the modernization of its National Identity Management System (NIMS), aiming to implement version 2.0 of the…
LexisNexis Risk Solutions to Acquire AI Identity Verification Firm IDVerse
LexisNexis Risk Solutions has announced plans to acquire IDVerse, an AI-powered identity verification and document authentication company. The acquisition will…
Facial Recognition in Spotlight as Police Arrest UnitedHealthcare Shooting Suspect
With news breaking today about the arrest of a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, the potential utility of facial…
Google Wallet Now Supports Digital US Passports for Domestic Air Travel
Google has officially launched a new feature that allows users to add their US passports to Google Wallet, enabling digital identification for domestic air…
ID Talk: Anonybit’s Frances Zelazny on Privacy-First Biometrics and the Future of Identity
This week, the ID Talk podcast welcomes Anonybit co-founder and CEO Frances Zelazny to discuss the innovations driving the future of biometric security and…
Judge Advances Illinois Biometric Privacy Lawsuit Over ‘Diversity in Faces’ Dataset
A federal judge in California has allowed Illinois residents to move forward with a streamlined version of their class action lawsuit against Google over…