Following the announcement of the FIDO Ready Certification program, the 2014 International Consumers Electronics Show (CES) will give FIDO Alliance members the opportunity to display and demo FIDO Ready authentication solutions. The industry, along with its Relying Parties and users have been calling for innovative authentication alternatives from FIDO Alliance members in the hopes that […]

Click on a new Facebook application and a warning box pops up telling the user that the app will access their basic info, email address and other data. The user can either hit “OK” or “Cancel,” it’s a black and white choice with no option to just give up certain data. The scenario illustrates a […]

Privacy Vaults Online, commonly known as PRIVO, was established in 2001 to enable web sites to comply with the Children’s online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). “We embarked on building the tools necessary for companies to comply with the law – tools built around identity management,” says Denise Tayloe, PRIVO co-founder and CEO. Additionally, the company has […]

The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) was born out of a challenge shared by aerospace and defense companies: the need to be able to securely collaborate with suppliers, teammates and government customers. So together, they agreed to work on ways to securely email and share documents as well as how to trust each other’s issued […]

Pegatron, the Taiwan-based manufacturer of Apple’s new iPhone 5C device, implemented facial recognition technology to pre-screen and eliminate the employ of underage workers. Employing underage workers is a rather notorious problem in China where Pegatron is utilizing the biometric solution. The Wall Street Journal reveals that the company’s Shanghai branch is utilizing the facial recognition […]

NTIA To develop privacy code of conduct for facial recognition technology The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will host a series of meetings to discuss a multi-stakeholder process for the commercial use of facial recognition technology. The first of the NTIA meetings is scheduled for Feb. 6. The Feb. 6 meeting will kick off […]

It’s been a year since the Datacard Group and Entrust Inc. started talking about becoming one company. The two had a lot in common, with government and financial institutions being their largest customers and no overlap or competition when it came to products, says Josh Jabs, vice president of government vertical marketing at Datacard. The […]