The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a letter with the Illinois Supreme Court asking it to maintain the current right of citizens to sue companies based on the simple collection of their biometrics without consent. The court is considering whether such suits should require the plaintiff to show actual damages from the biometric capture.

After six years of grant funding by NIST ceased, the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) was left to find a new way to continue its efforts to build the foundation for secure online identity in the US. It has found a home inside the Kantara Initiative, and its work will continue as a part of that group’s efforts.

The case involves the use of biometric authentication technology that, among other things, helps the social media operator serve up personalized ads based on consumers’ moods. The practice allegedly ran afoul of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

A digital ID project will enable the English residents of the island near Normandy to access online government services as early as July. The program represents a change for Yoti, the technology provider, to prove it can do more than confirm the ages of nightclub guests.

Link to the person, not just their data; avoid honeypots of centralized identity data; and make protecting user privacy your default rather than something to work around. These are some of the key takeaways from this informative, on-demand webinar by digital identity provider, IDEMIA’s Mark DiFraia.

A pilot in Austin, TX, seeks to consolidate and safely store the identity documents, medical records and other forms that prove the identity of people who live on the street. The pilot, backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies, could make it easier for homeless people to find jobs and receive medical care.

U.K.-based iProov thinks so, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has made a bet that the biometric authentication firm is right. The technology, which works on users’ mobile devices and is anchored to data stored on remote serves, could help boost protection for hundreds of border crossings.