Juniper Research predicted in a new report that the biggest shift coming in the mobile payment security industry is a movement toward software-based methods for verification that rely on standard smartphone components. In a press release, the market research firm forecasted that users of these methods...
In the world of Digital Identity Verification, convergence is when AI-tech and human intelligence converge to keep the cybercrooks at bay, says Jumio CTO Labhesh Patel. It’s also the focus of Jumio’s new Montreal-based AI Labs where, he says, the world’s brightest minds are converging...
It looks like a Chromebook with fingerprint sensors is finally on the way — and that support will be built directly into Chrome OS. “Digging deeper into this commit, I found reference to OOBE or the ‘out of box experience’ that refers to the initial...
It’s one of the ideals of payments and commerce, a vision that drives so much research and experimentation: Making it through a store checkout lane without fishing for a card or waving a mobile phone, or even checking into a hotel after an exhausting flight...
When the internet debuted to the public, no one could have foreseen how important identity would become over the next few decades. Perhaps, if they had, someone would have built it into the internet protocol, jokes Jumio CPO Philipp Pointner. But it’s one of those...
It was two weeks before Blake Hall’s unit would deploy for combat in Iraq, and suddenly he and his 32 men were being told they weren’t going into direct combat after all; they would instead be running a kill-and-capture mission, something none of them had...
The recent past of digital identity and data security really won’t much resemble its future all that much, according to Tom Thimot, Socure’s newly minted CEO, and that is very good news for everyone. Because, he says, old-school models built out of static models will...
On May 25, 2018, the EU-wide mandate known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect. Once the law goes live, companies that operate in the EU can face heavy fines or sanctions for mishandling personal data of customers, clients or employees. This...
Is facial recognition tech up to the identical twin challenge? Not exactly, says University of Notre Dame computer science and engineering professor Kevin Bowyer. It’s a topic that Bowyer chatted about with PYMNTS for the latest issue of the Digital Identity Tracker™. He discusses the...
