Welcome to FindBiometrics’ digest of identity industry news. Here’s what you need to know about the world of digital identity and biometrics today: Privacy Rights Group Calls for Biometrics Regulation […]

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) of the United Kingdom’s Home Office has initiated a new Market Exploration focused on Facial Recognition (FR) technologies intended for policing and security applications. […]

The Australian government has formally announced plans to leverage face-based biometrics for identity verification online. It did so via the publication of a “National Strategy for Identity Resilience”, in which the government […]

According to a recent post on the website for the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI violated the privacy of Australians when it collected their biometric […]

Israeli police are backing a bill that would give them sweeping biometric surveillance powers. The bill was recently published in draft form, and would codify a practice that has already […]

Citing an effort to combat crime rates, Mexico’s federal Senate has approved a new bill that would create a national registry of mobile phone users containing a plethora of personal […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief in the case of the ACLU v. Clearview AI to contest Clearview’s claim that an injunction would violate the company’s […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is examining some of the issues that legislators and technology providers will need to consider as they work to implement digital identities. The organization is […]

The Seventh Circuit court in the U.S. has weighed in on Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), and determined that the act of collecting and storing someone’s biometric information without […]

The Russian government has been using a network of 100,000 facial recognition cameras to keep track of individuals that have been ordered to quarantine for 14 days. The cameras are […]