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Masha Borak

Masha Borak

Technology Journalist at Biometric Update

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Recent Articles

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Discrepancy in enforcement between biometric data protection in public, private sectors

The UK Information Commissioner's Office has published the results of its experimental reduction of fines for data breaches for public organizations.
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What is the killer app for verifiable credentials? Daon, Dock and Y...

Financial services, healthcare, transport, government and more are increasingly adopting digital verifiable credentials connected to biometrics.
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Ecommerce is losing money to fraud – and looking towards biometrics

Fraud losses continue to plague ecommerce and online payments, with Juniper releasing the latest sobering statistics on merchant losses.
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Idemia upgrades Interpol biometrics with new MBIS

Idemia Public Security delivered the upgraded MBIS solution to Interpol over the past summer, but only revealed the upgrade this month.
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Military dating site leaves database with 1M records exposed

The unprotected database contained sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) of members of the U.S. and UK armed forces.
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Biometric travel in the US has public support, needs unified standards

While the U.S. travel industry discusses how to alleviate lawmaker fears about airport biometrics, an airport in Naples starts facial recognition experiments.
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Kudelski IoT brings Idemia biometric IDV to 1000 US car dealerships

Integrating Idemia’s authentication technology will allow the company’s 1,000 customers to provide enhanced security and fraud prevention tools.
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Retail facial recognition for crime prevention finds support in Aus...

Retailers in Australia and the UK are keen to use facial recognition to cut down on shoplifting and violence in stores, and finding public support.
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Humanity Protocol: ‘We’re building a full credential ecosystem’

Companies like Humanity Protocol owe a lot to World Network for paving the way and educating regulators worldwide about privacy-preserving SSI.
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NEC launches single-image multimodal biometrics

Tech giant NEC has developed a new technology that allows authentication with both face and iris biometrics with a single camera image.
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Australia’s debate on age verification for social media reaches Par...

Australia's proposed ban on social media for children under 16 is now before Parliament for debate over whether and how to enforce age checks.
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Identomat becomes eIDAS certified

The eIDAS regulates eID and electronic signatures, creating a framework for electronic interactions between businesses across Europe.
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EUDI Wallet’s path to payments more complex than it sounds: EWC

Enabling the European Digital Identity Wallet to integrate with existing payment ecosystems and deliver new payment services is more complex than it sounds.
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How to fix Europe’s border troubles? eu-Lisa holds industry roundtable

The upcoming introduction of the EU’s EES will bring new operational challenges as countries rush to introduce new biometric-based border technologies.
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JP Morgan publishes white paper on KYC in tokenized asset markets

expanding the tokenized asset industry will need more traditional investors which, in turn, are demanding more privacy-preserving identity solutions.
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UK’s ETA border scheme attracts criticism

The UK is planning to fully roll out its biometric-based travel permission scheme, the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) by April next year
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Ireland considers adding drug trafficking to police FRT use cases

Minister of Justice presented a new report detailing police success in cracking down on high-profile crime groups and seizing large volumes of drugs.
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Frontex ignores rights impact in border biometrics forecast, paper ...

The research was published as part of project AFAR: Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
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Belgian watchdog ruling on consent sets employee biometrics use aga...

The decision could dampen the use of biometric systems for time recording or protecting company assets, according to PwC Legal in Belgium.
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Meta announces new age-checking measures for young Instagram users

Meta tries to relieve pressure from lawmakers to protect teenage users from harmful content by making it harder for them to lie about their age on Instagram.
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Travel industry struggles with lack of clarity on EES

Stakeholders are asking for guidelines to prepare for deployment, including a framework that would detail the phased rollout of the EES.