IDfy Wins India’s Government-Backed DPDP Consent Challenge
Indian identity and trust technology company IDfy has won Code for Consent, a government-run competition to find systems that can manage user consent and data…
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Spain’s Data Protection Authority Warns the EUDI Wallet Could Exclude Vulnerable Users
Spain’s data protection authority has warned that the EU Digital Identity Wallet, depending on how member states and companies build it, could shut vulnerable…
IETF Draft Maps the Technical Tradeoffs of Age Verification
A new document circulating through the Internet Engineering Task Force tries to pin down what age verification actually costs. Titled “Age Verification…
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…
EFF, TEDIC, and CEJIL Challenge Paraguay’s Facial Recognition Secrecy
Three digital-rights organizations have asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to compel Paraguay to disclose how it uses facial recognition,…
Kansas City Transit Agency Revives Plan for Facial Recognition on Buses
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority is moving ahead with a plan to put AI-powered facial recognition cameras on some of its buses this fall, a…
Kenya Plans to Link CCTV Cameras With National ID Records for Facial Recognition
Kenya’s Interior Ministry plans to connect surveillance cameras with the country’s national identity records so that police can match faces captured on camera…
Western Australia Police to Trial Live Facial Recognition in an Australian First
Western Australia Police will trial real-time facial recognition cameras that scan the faces of people in crowds and check them against a watchlist, becoming…
DHS Document Outlines Plan to Put Facial Recognition in Local Police Hands
A Department of Homeland Security document revealed by NPR outlines plans to issue facial recognition technology to local police departments, a step that would…
Sharp’s AQUOS R11 Adds Privacy Masking for ‘My Number Card’ Photos
Sharp’s new AQUOS R11 smartphone includes a camera feature that automatically masks sensitive fields on Japan’s My Number Card when the card is photographed, a…