Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. The agency is ...

A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations.

An estimated 542 million Africans lack identity cards and potentially face statelessness. Without a legal identity, they can be excluded from basic human rights like education, healthcare and ...

The Case for Resisting Face Scanning, According to Experts ...

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has announced the deployment of a next-generation AI-enabled biometric deduplication and document verification platform. The platform is called an ...

Biometric data quality was in focus at MOSIP Connect 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, from policies for ensuring good enrollment practices to tools for assessment.

A woman in Illinois has filed a lawsuit against U.S. retail giant Target accusing the company of allegedly collecting and storing an array of customer data without asking for permission. A report on ...

Oracle has added selfie biometrics and liveness detection to its enterprise cloud platform to help protect against workforce ...

When you think of identity theft, you probably think about personal information, such as Social Security Numbers, said Action 9 investigator Jason Stoogenke. You must now consider biometrics, as well, ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

PCWorld examines Microsoft’s Project Silica breakthrough, which now uses common borosilicate glass like Pyrex for ultra-long-term data storage lasting over 10,000 years. This technology addresses ...