Toddlers to Get Digital ID in Philippines, Caymans
By Masha Borak The Philippines is allowing children four years of age and younger to sign up for the country’s digital ID, the Philippine Identification…
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Generative AI Enabling Identity Fraud at Scale: Au10tix Report
By Chris Burt An eight month-long identity fraud campaign coordinated by organized crime groups has attempted 22,080 fraudulent user onboarding attempts by repeatedly applying generative…
Nepal to Assign Unique ID Number at Birth as Part of Digital ID Program
By Joel R. McConvey Digital identity for individuals will soon start at birth or shortly thereafter in Nepal, where the government has begun issuing digital…
Mobile Banking Malware Growing Rapidly, ThreatFabric Warns
By Bianca Gonzalez Online payment fraud prevention provider ThreatFabric has shared research on the return of the Anatsa trojan virus, which is expanding its reach…
Visa Says Palm Biometric Payments Have Promising Future
By Masha Borak Payments giant Visa showcased its pay-by-palm biometric payment technology at an event marking the transformation of its Singapore Innovation Center last week….
They Are Creating Incredibly Bizarre New Technologies For The Dystopian World Of The Future
By Michael Snyder Many would argue that we are already living in a dystopian society, but if those that are currently running things get their…
Unregulated, Exploitative, and on the Rise: Vera Institute’s Report on Electronic Monitoring
By Hannah Zhao, José Martinez, and Will Greenberg Incarceration rates in the United States have long been among the highest in the world, and in…
White Hat Hacker Reveals Vulnerability in Germany’s Digital ID
By Masha Borak Germany’s digital ID may come under threat from malicious attackers, according to an analysis from a digital security expert. A white hat…
Scientists on Quest to Decode the Human Brain – And Read People’s Minds
By The Conversation The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. Can researchers solve its greatest mysteries? In the middle of 2023, a…
New Zealand Grocery Stores Adding Facial Recognition, Police Want Open Discussion
By Masha Borak Facial recognition is entering New Zealand’s grocery stores and the rapid expansion of the technology has been filling the country’s newspaper headlines….
The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American Taxpayer
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The madmen are in power.”— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign…
Belize to Kick Off National ID and Biometric Data Strategy as Soon as March
By Masha Borak Belize is moving towards building its national identification system and formulating a strategy for biometric data with future plans for digitizing public…
A New Way to Thwart Facial Recognition Targets Surveillance Camera Sensors
By Masha Borak As facial recognition surveillance spreads, researchers and privacy-minded individuals have been trying to come up with ways to thwart the technology, using…
Ireland Shows How Police can Ignore Biometric Privacy Concerns and Promises
By Jim Nash Those who see face surveillance by law enforcement as a danger to civil rights keep hoping that their warnings will stir the…