20+ hour, 16+ min ago   (717+ words) Biometric fundamentals and foundational ID are considerations at the very beginning of the identity lifecycle that are sometimes overlooked. If organizations can handle them better the rewards are improved trustworthy service delivery and stronger defenses against fraud. Fundamental considerations for…...

21+ hour, 57+ min ago   (1556+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has withdrawn plans to award Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) a five-year, $125 million data and analytics contract without competition after industry feedback prompted the agency to reconsider the procurement. ICE has not abandoned the requirement....

22+ hour, 40+ min ago   (461+ words) TECH5 has recorded the fastest search time in the current two-eye developer table of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Ongoing Evaluation of Iris Recognition (IREX 10). IREX 10 evaluates one-to-many iris recognition, which searches for one person in a database of…...

22+ hour, 49+ min ago   (359+ words) OCR Studio has updated its on-device software to scan the machine readable zones (MRZs) of passports, identity cards, visas, and other documents captured during remote onboarding. The update is designed to improve first-pass document capture, reducing repeated scans and manual…...

2+ day, 20+ min ago   (526+ words) As governments begin treating AI compute as a public resource, identity verification is becoming the mechanism for allocating it. UNICEF Digital Inclusion, the Connect and Compute Foundation, and Self Labs have announced a collaboration to help governments in emerging markets…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (452+ words) A pair of facial recognition providers have passed Level 3 independent biometric Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and Injection Attack Detection (IAD) evaluations by BixeLab among a series of assessments by the Australian lab. Legitimuz Tecnologia LTDA’s IAD product met the test…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1107+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring a centralized investigative platform that would place generative AI on top of billions of communications, location, financial, social media and digital forensic records, allowing Homeland Security Investigations agents to query and analyze massive…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (349+ words) Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Dr. Brian Plastow and his team will release a report on the outcomes and achievements of the regulatory regime’s previous strategic plan before the end of the summer, according to a document outlining the office’s business plan....

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (411+ words) Meta says it has taken down more than 750,000 accounts believed to belong to Australian users under 16 years of age, in the wake of Australia’s landmark regulation putting age assurance requirements on large social media platforms. According to Reuters, the company…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (368+ words) India’s Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the deployment of facial recognition technology (FRT) and other biometric surveillance tech by police at protest venues. A report from the Deccan Herald says the writ petition is linked to demonstrations by…...