Kazakhstan: New user identification requirements “further regulate social relations”
11 January 2018 The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed, on 28 December 2017, the Law of 28 December 2017 […]
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In China, facial recognition is sharp end of big data drive for total surveillance
Facial recognition is the new hot tech topic in China. Banks, airports, hotels and even public toilets are all trying […]
Why we need to stop using personally identifiable information as a form of access
Last year over 2.2 billion personal records were hacked. In 2018 expect data firms to move away from using identifiers […]
Rash of data breaches forcing agencies to rethink how they verify employees’ identities
Joe Stuntz, a former policy lead for the OMB’s cyber and national security unit, said the future of identity management […]
Personal data of a billion Indians sold online for £6
The personal information of more than a billion Indians stored in the world’s largest biometric database can be bought online […]
No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers
In this second installment of the No Boundaries series, we show how a long-known vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers […]
Researchers can re-identify government’s data
The confidential patient data of 2.9 million Australians can be re-identified, without decryption, a report from University of Melbourne researchers […]
Managing Your Identity on Facebook with Face Recognition Technology
Facebook is announcing new, optional tools to help people better manage their identity on Facebook using face recognition. Powered by […]
Aadhaar data leak: More than 200 Indian government websites expose citizens’ key personal details
The Aadhaar-issuing body, called the Unique Identification Authority of India, did not specify how or when the breach took place. […]
Woman Says Her Identity Has Been Stolen 15 Times Since Equifax Data Breach
“I want to share my story and make people aware that this can happen to anybody.” Source: Seattle Woman Says […]
The next revolution will be reclaiming your digital identity
Their promise is that our identities will be consolidated so that we have complete control over who accesses that information. […]
Possible security risk affects 750,000 Estonian ID-cards
An international team of researchers detected a vulnerability potentially affecting digital use of Estonian ID cards issued since October 2014. […]