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Meta Launches Facebook Verified Badge That Confirms a Real Human With a Selfie

July 24, 2026

Meta is rolling out a free Facebook Verified badge that uses a facial recognition selfie to confirm there is a real person behind an account, its latest attempt to help […]

Meta Adds Visual AI Signals to Age Detection on Facebook and Instagram

May 6, 2026

Meta is expanding its age-estimation systems with AI that analyzes photos and videos for visual cues that may indicate whether a user is under 13 or a teen using an […]

U.S. Grocery Chain’s 8-K Ties $70M Financing to Worldcoin Treasury, Explores In-Store World ID Verification

October 1, 2025

Maison Solutions, a California grocery chain, disclosed in a Form 8-K that it secured up to $70 million in financing tied to a Worldcoin treasury and is exploring in-store World ID verification use cases.

Meta Expands Face-Matching To Fight Impostor Accounts In UK, EU And South Korea

September 30, 2025

Meta is extending its facial recognition tools to new markets, with Engadget reporting and the company confirming that the technology is now rolling out across the UK, EU, and South […]

Meta Tests Facial Recognition to Detect and Remove Celebrity Scam Content

August 21, 2025

Meta says it is testing facial recognition technology to combat “celeb-bait” scams on Facebook and Instagram, an initiative first outlined on October 21, 2024. The system checks images—particularly ads—for misuse […]

Meta Rolls Out Passkey Logins for Facebook Mobile App, Expanding Passwordless Access

June 19, 2025

Meta has begun rolling out passkey login support on the Facebook mobile app, allowing users to sign in using biometric authentication methods such as fingerprint, facial recognition, or device PIN. […]

Meta Brings Back Facial Recognition to Combat ‘Celeb-Bait’ Scams

October 22, 2024

Meta is reintroducing facial recognition technology on Facebook and Instagram to tackle the growing issue of ‘celeb-bait’ scams, where scammers use AI-generated images of celebrities to promote fraudulent schemes. This […]

Meta to Pay $1.4B in Texas Biometric Privacy Lawsuit

July 30, 2024

Meta’s record-breaking settlement in its biometric privacy dispute with the state of Texas has now been revealed: The company has agreed to pay out $1.4 billion. That’s more than its […]

Former Google, Apple Execs to Play Key Role in Worldcoin’s Digital ID System

July 4, 2024

Tools for Humanity, the company behind the Worldcoin crypto-ID project, has added former Google and Apple executives to critical roles overseeing its digital ID efforts. Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam […]

Meta Prevails in BIPA Lawsuit Over Face Tagging

June 18, 2024

Meta has won an appeal against claims that it violated Illinois state law by analyzing the faces of people without profiles on its platform. A Ninth Circuit panel upheld the […]

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FaceTec’s patented, industry-leading 3D Face Verification and Reverification software anchors digital identity, creating a chain of trust from user onboarding to ongoing authentication on all modern smart devices and webcams. FaceTec’s 3D FaceMaps™ finally make trusted, remote identity verification possible. As the only technology backed by a persistent spoof bounty program and NIST/iBeta Certified Liveness Detection, FaceTec is the global standard for 3D Liveness and Face Matching with millions of users on six continents in financial services, border security, transportation, blockchain, e-voting, social networks, online dating and more. www.facetec.com

Unico is a global identity network that forges trust between people & companies. We identify people globally so they can have safe, efficient and private digital access to services around the world. Unico is present in over 20 countries, and serves 165 million users with over 1.5 billion identity verifications every year. We are the leading global identity network.www.unico.io

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Innovatrics is an EU-based provider of trusted biometric solutions for governments and enterprises. Our algorithms consistently rank among the fastest and most accurate in fingerprint, face, and iris recognition. Since 2004, we have partnered with all types of organisations to build trusted and flexible biometric identification solutions. Our solutions are used in more than 80 countries, benefiting over a billion people worldwide. https://www.innovatrics.com/

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Identity Week aims to be a significant identity industry catalyst. It’s our mission is to help accelerate the move towards a world where trusted identity solutions enable governments and commercial organisations to provide citizens, employees, customers and consumers with a multitude of opportunities to transact in a seamless, yet secure manner. All the while preventing the efforts of those intent on doing harm. https://identityweek.net/

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The Biometric Digital Identity Prism is a market landscape framework designed to help influencers and decision makers understand, innovate, and implement digital identity technologies and solutions. This innovative framework for understanding and evaluating the rapidly evolving biometric digital identity marketplace is the only market model that is truly biometric-centric based on the foundational conviction that in the age of digital transformation the only true, reliable link between humans and their digital data is biometrics. https://www.the-prism-project.com

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