2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (946+ words) The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is exploring a digital workforce identity system that could link a worker’s verified identity and employment authorization to credentials, wages, training, housing, transportation, and worksite records, using data analytics and potentially AI to identify fraud…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (615+ words) The cliché popularized by Spider-Man movies that “with great power comes great responsibility” clashes with the popular quote by English historian and politician Lord Acton that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” One is aspirational, one is…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (691+ words) Agentic AI is enabling cybercriminals to coordinate complex infrastructure systems to steal credentials. These tools can manage multiple stages of an operation and reduce the time attackers spend moving between discovery, exploitation, and collection. Google’s findings illustrate how AI is…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (373+ words) Yubico hardware security keys designed for OpenAI accounts are becoming available in ten more countries. The company has expanded its customized OpenAI bundle to Australia, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates....

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (412+ words) The South Korean government is preparing a national policing strategy to counter the rapid rise of AI-driven crime, including biometric manipulation, digital identity fraud and increasingly autonomous scams. According to officials, AI is now being misused across the entire criminal…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1036+ words) The suit further alleges that Meta has used images to train generative AI models without obtaining consent. The 66-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleges Meta used images depicting both users and non-users…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1389+ words) For decades, proving identity online has often meant converting a physical credential into a digital artifact. Generative AI and industrial-scale data breaches, however, are undermining nearly every assumption behind that model. A criminal marketplace called Nexus reportedly offered more than…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (435+ words) Scotland’s Biometrics Commissioner is calling for a new national strategy for public-space surveillance, arguing that the country’s 2011 CCTV framework no longer reflects the realities of AI-enabled analytics, live facial recognition and modern policing. Scotland’s current strategy predates the emergence of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (358+ words) The 2026 Industry Survey from the Biometrics Institute compiles feedback from 144 professionals from across the biometrics industry. Embedded AI is the most important development of the last 12 months, 21 percent of industry professionals say. AI nearly doubled from 11 percent last year to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (531+ words) An article from Alexandre Kech, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), explores how a trust layer of verifiable organizational identity is critical to agentic payments, offering a complement to GLEIF’s new discussion paper, “Agentic AI in Payments:…...