Joel McConvey

11 hours ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

Identity security is under grave threat. For all of its advantages, digital identity represents a vulnerability that can be leveraged for mass credential theft, identity fraud, financial crime and worse. Writing on the emergent battle to secure the contested territory of digital ID, Biometric Update’s Anthony Kimery puts it in stark terms: “Those who control identity shape the battlefield.

1 day ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has new priorities, and while some might call them great priorities – tremendous priorities, even, the best priorities in the world – they do not include research on deepfakes.

1 day ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

A barking dog is alarming, but if it has no legs, it’s not scary for very long. This is particularly true if the dog is barking at Bang Bros – a pornography site that, in our metaphor, represents the larger industry of porn providers facing down the immobile barking dog of age assurance regulation. So far, it seems, regulatory efforts to crack down on sites that host age-restricted content are not doing much.

1 day ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

GET Group’s ribbons produce high-class ID documents with serious aesthetics Categories Biometric R&D  |  Biometrics News  |  Civil / National ID Time to throw your old security ribbons in the bin.

1 day ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Joel McConvey

It’s spring, and enforcement is in the air. A wave of age assurance and online safety regulation has reached the point at which it must crest toward consequences, if it is to be effective in limiting harms to children online. Regulators and lawmakers are issuing promises to take their responsibility seriously, and to use the full force of the punitive powers they have been granted.