Spain’s Operation Crossing the Strait Opens With Biometric Checks for Non-EU Travelers
Spain’s annual Operation Crossing the Strait has begun, and for the first time it is running with biometric border controls for non-EU travelers as the summer…
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TSA Aviation Badging Procurement Calls for Biometric Identification Support
A federal procurement opportunity for an Aviation Channeling and Data Management System specifies that the vendor must support biometric identification,…
Precise Biometrics Reports Palm Recognition False Accept Rate Beyond 1 in 100 Million
Precise Biometrics says its touchless palm recognition technology has reached a false accept rate better than one in 100 million while keeping latency low, a…
AI Agent Identity Gets a Wave of New Tooling From CrowdStrike, SailPoint, Beyond Identity, Akamai, and Saviynt
A cluster of identity and security vendors has rolled out tooling for governing AI agents, converging on a shared idea: a static, one-time access decision is…
Opendock Adds Driver ID Validation With Optional Face Match to Warehouse Gates
Opendock has added a Driver ID Validation feature to its Gate Management product, letting warehouses verify a driver’s identity during check-in by scanning a…
OneSpan Opens Early Access to a Digital Credentials Service for Wallets
OneSpan has opened early access to a digital credentials solution that lets organizations issue, manage, and verify identities held in digital wallets through…
Delinea and Cyera Tie Privileged Identities to the Sensitive Data They Can Reach
Delinea and Cyera have integrated their platforms to connect privileged access management with sensitive-data intelligence, automatically correlating each…
Hirsch and Unibeam Build SIM-Bound Authentication Into Enterprise Identity
Hirsch and Unibeam have introduced SecureSIM, an enterprise authentication option that roots a user’s identity in the secure element of their mobile SIM rather…
UK Plans Under-16 Social Media Ban, Putting Age Assurance at the Center
The UK government says it will bar social media platforms from offering their services to users under 16, a move that turns on the question of how platforms…
Ireland Signals Social Media Age Verification Tied to Public Service Numbers
Ireland is preparing to bring social media age-verification plans to Cabinet, with Tánaiste Simon Harris saying the country should follow the United Kingdom’s…