Iris biometrics provider Shanghai Pixsur Smart Technology has partnered with Smart Engines for a major sporting tournament. The partners refer in the announcement to the…
Two weeks before the midterm elections, the Republican National Committee hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google with a lawsuit, claiming they can’t communicate with party members to…
To date, 35 different models of cell phones that are dangerous for the health of users have been either withdrawn from the French market or…
In the wake of the Optus data breach, the Australian government is considering centralizing digital ID through the myGov or myGovID systems. During the Optus…
Austrians can now generate mobile driving licenses (mDLs) on their smartphones, the federal ministry of Internal Affairs announced. To generate the mDL, Austrians are required…
Critics of the massive US weapons pipeline to Ukraine have long pointed out there’s no accountability or appropriate tracking once those arms enter the country,…
The EU Thursday agreed on new air pollution legislation that includes stricter CO₂ emission standards for cars and a goal to phase out CO₂ emitting…
A report released Thursday from Cambridge University claims the United Kingdom police’s use of facial recognition technology (FRT) has breached numerous ethical and human rights…
Google added more than 12,000 employees in the third quarter, with around 2,600 solely focused on its cloud platform security. The company in March acquired…
Over the last several months of the ongoing Twitter/Elon Musk lawsuit, Musk and his lawyers continually interrogated Twitter on its process for analyzing spam or…
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning against companies deploying biometrics-based emotional analysis algorithms, coincident with the release of two new…
South Korea plans to provide digital identities encrypted by blockchain with smartphones to citizens in 2024 to facilitate its economic development., Bloomberg reported Monday. The South Korean…
A New York state Supreme Court ordered all New York City employees who were fired for not being vaccinated to be reinstated with back pay.…
The council of Shropshire, a county in England, plans to go cashless by April next year. The council alleged that the move is in response…
As digital payments have become increasingly popular, many of the largest companies in this sector have used their dominant position to censor users, harvest their…
Governments and financial institutions are increasingly warming to the idea of introducing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) – central banks’ digital tokens, pegged to a…
In another foretaste of potential future ‘carbon allowance’ limits, a major bank in Australia has introduced a new feature that links purchases to a customer’s…
In a brief statement delivered outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Downing St. in London, Truss said: I came into office at a time of…
India’s Competition Commission Thursday imposed a provisional penalty of Rs. 1137.76 crores ($162 million) on Google for anti-competitive practices in the Android devices market. The…
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, Thursday released its second report, stating there are “reasonable grounds to…