Bank of Ireland to introduce voice biometrics to authentication for phone interactions
By Bianca Gonzalez Bank of Ireland announced it will invest more than €34 million (roughly US$36 million) to upgrade its phone and CRM systems, including…
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Finland starts work on national digital identity wallet
By Masha Borak Finland has set up a project to implement its national digital identity wallet in line with the European Union’s eEIDAS regulation which…
Facial recognition coming to LA transit after passenger fatally stabbed
By Joel R. McConvey Transit officials in Los Angeles have declared a public safety emergency over the stabbing of a 66-year-old woman in the city’s…
Mastercard announces new AI suite with behavioral biometrics to fight fraud
By Joel R. McConvey Large financial institutions are coming to terms with the new world of tech-driven fraud and adopting digital identity tools as an…
T-Mobile, Amazon, and Target hit with facial recognition lawsuits
By Bianca Gonzalez More companies with household names familiar to consumers are getting hit with lawsuits for alleged violations of BIPA and New York’s Biometric…
AI surveillance robot uses facial recognition to decide who to blast with paintballs
AP Editor’s Note: Well, it’s not difficult to see the sinister applications of AI technology that autonomously selects who to fire on. Now it’s home…
Whitney Webb Interview – Manufacturing Bipartisan Consent For Biometric Surveillance
By Ryan Cristián Joining me once again today is TLAV writer and researcher, and founder/editor of Unlimited Hangout, Whitney Webb, here to discuss the biometric…
U.S. academic institutions get biometric upgrades with new partnerships
By Joel R. McConvey A press release says ROC (formerly Rank One Computing), which provides U.S.-made biometrics and computer vision for military, law enforcement and…
AI, document and identity verification continues to transform Canada
By Bianca Gonzalez With over 300 AI projects in use among the federal government alone, AI-enabled biometric document and identity verification is changing the way…
UK government rejects calls for clearer facial recognition laws
By Masha Borak Debates continue among British lawmakers on the legality of police deployment of live facial recognition. After the UK Parliament’s Justice and Home…
Sierra Leone putting digital ID at the center of its digital transformation agenda
By Ayang Macdonald The West African nation of Sierra Leone is at full throttle with its digital transformation efforts, and its MOSIP-based foundational identity system…
World Bank officials discuss using Korea’s national digital ID as a model
By Ayang MacDonald Officials of the state-owned Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corporation (KOMSCO) and those of a World Bank delegation recently…
PayByFace Expands Across European Markets
By Bianca Gonzalez The Amsterdam-based biometric payment processing startup PayByFace has announced agreements to expand into several European markets including Netherlands, UK, Ireland, France, Italy,…
Experts Warn Of ‘Digital Enslavement’ As Amazon Pushes Palm-Scan Payment Service
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ZeroHedge) E-commerce giant Amazon has just launched new tech that makes it far easier to sign…