The Domino Effect, 2026 Update: Five More Countries Mandate Age Checks for Social Media
Australia's under-16 ban came into force in December 2025. Six months later, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, and Malaysia have followed with their own age-che...
14 articles on biometrics.
Australia's under-16 ban came into force in December 2025. Six months later, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, and Malaysia have followed with their own age-che...
Brussels unveiled a privacy-preserving app to keep children safe online and prove age without exposing identity. Within roughly two minutes, a securit...
Researchers have built a drone surveillance system called FarSight that identifies individuals at long range by fusing facial recognition, gait analys...
Every EU member state must offer a functional European Digital Identity Wallet by end of 2026. As of April, only four had reached public sandbox stage...
A coalition of 70+ organisations including the ACLU and EFF is demanding Meta halt its 'Name Tag' facial recognition feature for Ray-Ban and Oakley sm...
Researchers used LLMs, GANs, and cross-platform image matching to reconstruct detailed personal profiles from fragmented public social media data — ac...
Facial recognition. Behavioral analytics. Vehicle scanning 20 billion times a month. Predictive policing algorithms that flag you before any crime occ...
ICE's FY2026 budget is ten times its total surveillance spending over the previous 13 years combined. Palantir's ImmigrationOS tracks self-deportation...
Home Depot installed Flock Safety license-plate readers at all 233 of its California stores without telling customers — then shared that data with law...
Mexico passed legislation on January 9, 2026 requiring all 130 million phone lines to be linked to a biometric version of the national ID — facial rec...
On April 28, 2026, Google announced that India's Aadhaar biometric credentials can now be stored in Google Wallet — making a US tech giant the distrib...
At RSAC 2026 in San Francisco, ESET's Jake Moore paired Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with commercial facial recognition software and identified people i...
A WIRED investigation reveals Telegram channels recruiting 'AI face models' for pig-butchering scams in Cambodia — and the massive privacy implication...
Payment processors aren't just moving your money anymore — they're building identity verification empires. From Stripe Identity's biometric scans to P...