The Future of Finance: Mobile Biometric Banking
Last week, we kicked off The Future of Finance special event at FindBiometrics with a look at how less is more in financial services technology, with the…
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Amazon Places One-Year Moratorium on Sale of Facial Recognition to Police
Amazon is following IBM’s lead and is no longer allowing law enforcement agencies to use its facial recognition technology. However, Amazon’s decision comes…
IBM Halts Sale of Facial Recognition Software, Calls for Police Reform
IBM is getting out of facial recognition. The technology giant has announced that it will no longer be selling general purpose facial recognition software, and…
Judge Freezes Facebook’s BIPA Settlement, Suggesting Too Much Lenience
A $550 million dollar settlement negotiated by Facebook has been put on hold by U.S. District Judge James Donato until lawyers explain to him why the amount is…
U.S. Organizations Lost $1.8 Trillion to 2019 Data Breaches: ForgeRock
ForgeRock has released its latest Consumer Identity Breach Report, which found that data breaches cost U.S. organizations more than $1.2 trillion in 2019…
COVID-19, COVID-19, and COVID-19 in This Week’s Top Biometrics Stories Roundup
At the end of what has felt for many like a particularly dark week, it’s perhaps no surprise that almost all of the items in our roundup of FindBiometrics’…
Judge Declines to Send Vimeo BIPA Case to Arbitration
New York-based video hosting platform Vimeo lost an appeal in the Northern District of Illinois to have a class-action biometric privacy lawsuit go to…
IDEMIA-Sopra Steria Consortium Wins EU Biometric Border Contract
A consortium consisting of French security and identity solutions company IDEMIA and a European information technology consultancy, Sopra Steria, has announced…
The Future of Finance: Less is More
In the age of pandemic disease, it’s difficult enough to predict what tomorrow will bring, let alone the longer-term future. Nevertheless, this month is The…
EU Court Decision Prompts Northern Ireland Police to Delete Biometric Records
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) appears set to begin the ‘real-time’ deletion of its database of drunk drivers’ biometric data following a recent…