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Leak of Biometric Police Data in India Signals Rising Risks

A significant data breach has exposed the sensitive biometric information of thousands of law enforcement officials and police applicants in India, with lost…

May 24, 2024

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BNSF Settles Landmark BIPA Case for $75M

BNSF Railway Co. has reached a settlement in its landmark class action lawsuit under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act. The basis for the class…

February 27, 2024

Social Media Platforms Must Guard Against Data Scraping: Privacy Watchdogs

Privacy regulators from a dozen countries have issued a joint statement clarifying that personal information that is publicly accessible, such as that…

August 24, 2023

French Data Protection Authority Opens Investigation Into Worldcoin

French data protection authority CNIL has initiated an investigation into Worldcoin, a web3 startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, over concerns related to…

July 28, 2023

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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

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. www.innovatrics.com

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. identityweek.net

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. www.the-prism-project.com