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IAM funding deals and dev challenge aim to solve enterprise identity threat

8 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.
White House includes NSF research on deepfakes among threats to free speech

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.
Age assurance enforcement concerns raised as porn sites drag feet

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.
Next-gen security ribbons enable personalized ID security, look sharp

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.
Missouri introduces first dual-level age assurance requirement for porn

2 days ago | biometricupdate.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.
Consortium of Privacy Regulators assembles to coordinate enforcement

2 days ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

State privacy regulators are organizing to promote collaboration and information sharing, in what a release calls “the bipartisan effort to safeguard the privacy rights of consumers” facing an environment of advanced biometric technology. The release comes from the office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Age assurance differs across continents, as Europe, UK take stronger stance than US

3 days ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

The wild frontier of age assurance legislation continues to take shape, as legal decisions and regulatory trends create incremental shifts in policy that reflect regional differentiation. In the U.S., an Ohio judge has struck down a law restricting teens’ access to social media.
Potential for deepfake audio, video to warp reality is building to crisis level

3 days ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

Persona has published its fraud insights for the first quarter of 2025, and deepfakes take the headline. “The deepfake fight intensifies,” it says, noting a prediction from Deloitte’s Center for Financial Services that fraud losses for financial institutions and their customers could reach $40 billion by 2027. As the algorithmic technology used to create deepfakes evolves, the ecosystem grows more complex. Generative AI has enabled huge advancements in synthetic media.
Indonesia’s new regulation frames age assurance as defense against child exploitation

3 days ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

The complexity of the task facing age assurance providers comes into sharp focus when viewed against the global context. For large swaths of the world’s population, pornography – arguably the largest driver of the age assurance industry at present – is outright illegal.
Nametag integrates with Aadhaar, enabling selfie verification for 1B in India

3 days ago | biometricupdate.com | Joel McConvey

Nametag has launched a major integration with Aadhaar, enabling the more than one billion users of India’s digital identity system to perform identity verification with digital ID.