TSA Finalizes Fee for Biometric Crew Access Program
The Transportation Security Administration is taking over the expedited-screening program for airline crews, adding facial recognition to it, and now setting…
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Nigeria Signs NIMC Act 2026, Recasting Its Identity Commission Around Digital Trust
Nigeria has overhauled the legal foundation of its national identity system, with President Bola Tinubu signing the NIMC Act 2026 into law. The legislation…
Australia Sets Charging and User-Choice Rules for Its Digital ID System
Australia has spelled out how it will charge for digital identity and how much choice government services and individuals will have over providers, clearing…
Researchers Demonstrate Quantum-Secured Fingerprint Matching for Border Control
A team of European researchers has demonstrated a way to check a fingerprint against a watchlist without either party exposing the underlying data, using…
UK Watchdog Warns Police Are Buying Biometric Tech ‘Without Understanding It’
Police forces in England and Wales are acquiring powerful biometric and AI-assisted technologies without fully understanding what they are buying or its…
CLEAR Integrates CLEAR1 With Amazon Connect to Verify Callers
CLEAR is extending its identity platform into customer-service call centers, integrating its CLEAR1 product with Amazon Connect so that organizations can…
EngageLab Launches Carrier-Based Silent Auth Across 36 Countries
EngageLab, the customer-engagement platform owned by Aurora Mobile, has launched a silent authentication product that verifies a user by checking their phone…
AlgorithmWatch Ties Georgia’s Protest Surveillance to Russian Facial Recognition
The country of Georgia has built much of its protest-policing surveillance on a Russian-made facial recognition system, according to an investigation by the…
AI Update: ‘This Is Not Our Preferred Long Term Model’
Welcome to the latest edition of the AI Update, where we continue to track the major developments in artificial intelligence and their implications for…
Incode Acquires Identiq for Privacy-Preserving Fraud Intelligence
Incode is adding cryptographic peer-to-peer identity validation to its fraud-prevention platform with the acquisition of Identiq, a company whose technology…