4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (225+ words) By Joshua W.J. Brown Accessibility standards make the same point from another direction. Canada’s CAN/ASC-EN 301 549:2024 says that when ICT uses biological characteristics, it must not rely on one particular biological characteristic as the only means of identification or control. The…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (912+ words) By the end of 2026, EU Member States are expected to make European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallets available to citizens. What follows is potentially even more consequential. Very large online platforms will be required to accept an EUDI Wallet when users…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1265+ words) According to a new RAND Europe report, security agencies adopting biometric identification, digital identity, and AI systems should be required to justify the need for the technology before acquiring it and to build independent oversight, audit trails, and human rights…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (285+ words) New Orleans-based ID verification provider IDScan.net has acknowledged the major breach of one of its databases, that exposed more than 170 million scanned identity documents, including 153 million driver’s licenses. IDScan, widely known for its VeriScan age and identity check software,…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (366+ words) Whether because of its age, its product focus or its relatively anemic branding, Microsoft has not caught much public scrutiny in debates over age assurance. Apple and Google, which make phones, run their operating systems and manage their app stores,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (358+ words) The 2026 Industry Survey from the Biometrics Institute compiles feedback from 144 professionals from across the biometrics industry. Embedded AI is the most important development of the last 12 months, 21 percent of industry professionals say. AI nearly doubled from 11 percent last year to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (258+ words) The trademarked technology combines OCR data extraction for any type of document with selfie biometrics and returns a similarity score for organizations to use in flexible, risk-based decisions, according to the announcement. The process is completed locally on the user’s…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (375+ words) Customers scan an identity document and capture a live facial image. The system verifies the document, performs liveness detection and matches the live face biometric with the identity document portrait before completing the identity check. “As more customer journeys move…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (369+ words) Indian biometric payments developer Palm Technologies plans to integrate SEALSQ’s QS7001 quantum-resistant security chip into its MetPalm V1 palm vein biometric authentication terminal for metro and toll payment applications. The company says the secure hardware design could later be extended to its…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (297+ words) MOSIP Decode 2026 has been launched. The International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore kicked off the countdown for the global virtual hackathon aimed at students. The event invites participants to contribute to MOSIP’s open‑source platform, which underpins national digital…...