An employee scans the eyes of a woman for biometric data needed to apply for a passport, at the passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021. Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent ...

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Critics warn that the plan would create an unprecedented surveillance architecture with inadequate safeguards and ...

With nine stores in Maryland, Wegman's has begun scanning the faces of anyone who enters select stores, sparking privacy ...

With enterprises constantly on the lookout for better security, biometrics is increasingly seen as a better alternative for authenticating digital identities than outdated authentication methods such ...

The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen at the ICE Cyber Crimes Center expanded facilities in Fairfax, Va., on July 22, 2015. (Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images) Customs and ...

"If your credit card is stolen, get a new one,” one expert said. “If your biometric data is stolen, you can't get a new face, and you can’t get new hands." ...

ADHRB warns that Gulf states; data laws, framed as privacy reforms, are enabling widespread biometric surveillance through vague national security exemptions and weak enforcement that threaten ...

According to Winston Churchill, there is no worse mistake in leadership than to hold out false hopes. One area where false hopes have long abounded is information security, and it’s happening again.