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BiometricsFacial Recognition App Clearview Faces Global Probe
Privacy regulators in Australia and the United Kingdom announced a joint investigation Thursday (July 9) into Clearview AI, the New York-based facial...
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Digital-First BankingHow Digitizing KYC Processes Helps Accelerate Onboarding
Customer onboarding and account opening is vitally important for banks to get right, as the processes kick off customers’ relationships with a...
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Gig EconomyHow goLance Is Using Connectivity, Transparency To Build Freelancers’ Trust
Building trust between freelancers and employers is a two-way street — and one that gig marketplaces must engineer. In the latest Gig...
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Credit UnionsDeep Dive: Offering An End-To-End Experience Through ATMs
The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a quantum leap among credit unions (CUs) toward offering innovative products and services. Safety measures implemented to...
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AuthenticationA Digital ID Fix For Online Estate Planning
Estate planning has historically meant knocking on an attorney’s door and filling out paperwork. Laws requiring consumers to have in-person meetings and...
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ResTechHow A Piece Of Payments Tech Found A New Application In Restaurants’ Recovery
Consumers are conflicted about dining out these days, a fact quickly confirmed by PYMNTS most recent consumer survey. On one hand, the...
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InvestmentsTech Company Nets $5M For Facial Recognition That Sees Through Masks
Corsight AI, an Israeli tech firm, raised $5 million as it develops technology to recognize people’s faces through masks, goggles or plastic...
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AuthenticationDeep Dive: COVID-19 Spurs Biometric Innovations For A Contactless Global Society
Global concern over the coronavirus spreading on contaminated surfaces in public places is unleashing rapid development of innovative biometric products that could...
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Digital OnboardingDeep Dive: The Need For Real-Time Data To Keep Onboarding Fast And Secure
Onboarding is typically the first interaction customers have with financial institutions (FIs), which leaves a lot riding on the process. Banks are...
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AuthenticationHow RBC Is Overhauling Digital Account Opening With AI
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing daily routines for consumers around the world, leading companies of all kinds to navigate how to reach...
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Artificial IntelligenceNew Facial Recognition Policy Signed Into Law In Washington State
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill on Tuesday (March 31) establishing specific rules – backed by Microsoft – governing facial...
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Regulation RoundupIn Europe, Taxes In Focus For Tech Giants
Big Tech firms – Google and Amazon among them – are increasingly in the taxman’s crosshairs. In the United Kingdom, for instance,...
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AuthenticationBiometrics: The Key To Overcoming Contactless Payment Limits?
Digital identity solutions are becoming more and more commonplace, especially as consumers grow increasingly aware of the weaknesses of authentication methods like...
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CoronavirusCoronavirus: Amazon Adjusts Attendance Policy; Trip.com Chairman, CEO To Stop Taking Salaries
The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on medical facilities, eCommerce retailers, technology and the economy as a whole. Here are the latest...
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BiometricsTech Firms Want Moderation, Not Bans, On Facial Recognition
Tech companies want to get ahead of the law when it comes to facial recognition, seeking to restrict its use but also making...
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AppleApple Blocks Clearview AI From App Store
The facial recognition app Clearview AI was banned from Apple’s developer program after allegedly violating the iPhone maker’s rules, Buzzfeed News reported...
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NewsToday In Payments: US Firms In China Could Miss Projections By 50 Pct; Square Cash App Users Grow 60 Pct YOY
In today’s top payments news, U.S. companies in China warned annual revenue might be off by almost 50 percent due to the...
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Security & FraudFacial Recognition Firm Clearview AI Client List Is Hacked
Facial recognition outfit Clearview AI — which collects billions of photos off the internet, and uses them for facial recognition technology — has...
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International5G Network Rollout Delayed In China, Flights Canceled Due To Coronavirus
The coronavirus has far-reaching impacts that extend beyond health, with a wide range of economic effects in sectors ranging from transportation to...
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Intelligence of ThingsCisco On The Future Of Safe And Smart Cities
With some analysts projecting a trillion IoT-enabled devices to be in use around the world by 2035, defending the IoT ecosystem is becoming...
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AuthenticationDeep Dive: Fake Profiles Threaten Social Media Networks
Social media has become an integral part of everyday life, with a recent study finding that there were approximately 2.77 billion social...
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BiometricsEU Softens Stance On 5-Year Ban Of Facial Recognition Tech
The European Union won’t be passing a blanket moratorium on facial recognition software after initially signaling that it would do so. Instead, it...
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AuthenticationWhy Digital Driver’s Licenses Are the Future Of ID Verification
Digital driver’s licenses (DDLs) are gaining popularity in the U.S., where 12 states are working to develop and implement them. Many nongovernmental...
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AuthenticationInside The Fight For Digital Driver’s Licenses
Biometric digital identity verification solutions are becoming more and more commonplace thanks to their implementation in everyday devices like smartphones and fitness...
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RetailWhy Amazon And Other Retailers Are Turning To Biometrics
Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development,...
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LegalSupreme Court Won’t Review Facebook’s Privacy Violation Case
In a blow to Facebook, the Supreme Court won’t decide whether or not people can sue the social media giant for using...
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Restaurant innovationCustomer-Facing Technologies Spice Up The QSR Space
Three words are driving dramatic technological changes in the fast food space: quality, convenience and speed. QSR customers expect quality food and...
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Artificial IntelligenceAlphabet, Microsoft Disagree On EU’s Proposed Facial Recognition Ban
Microsoft President Brad Smith doesn’t agree with Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai’s backing of the EU’s call for a temporary ban on...
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Artificial IntelligenceEU Considers Tightening AI Regulations For ‘High-Risk’ Sectors
Seeking to keep things ethical in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the European Union wants to enact legally binding requirements for...
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Security & FraudAI Firm Breaches Facial Recognition At Airports, Stores
Photos of faces and 3D masks have fooled facial recognition checkpoints at airports, as well as payment systems, but they can’t fool...
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BiometricsChina Continues Facial Recognition Adoption With Airport Scanners
Beijing Daxing International Airport has been incorporating facial recognition software more and more, and it’s being used to do everything from identifying...
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BiometricsHomeland Security Reverses Decision To Use Facial Scans For US Travelers
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reversed its plans for mandatory facial recognition scans of Americans arriving and departing the country,...
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AuthenticationDeep Dive: The Fight To Stop Biometric Spoofing
Biometric authentication is one of the hottest trends in the digital ID space. Users demand both ironclad security and seamless login experiences,...
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BiometricsHomeland Security: US Travelers Should Be Included In Facial Scans
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to update a current law requiring non-U.S. citizens to be subject to facial recognition scans...
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BiometricsMobile Phone Registration in China Now Requires Facial Scanning
China has implemented a new policy requiring citizens who want new phone service to scan their faces to verify identities instead of...
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BiometricsLeaked Documents Show UN Facial ID Tenets Framed By China
Technology firms in China are framing facial recognition policies at the United Nations (UN), The Financial Times (FT) reported on Sunday (Dec....
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BiometricsChina Tech Giants Push For Face ID Standards
Tencent, Xiaomi and Ant Financial are among the Chinese tech giants partnering with artificial intelligence (AI) firm SenseTime in an effort to...
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RetailHow QSRs Are Driving Retail Innovation Via Emerging Tech
Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological...
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FacebookFacebook Says Facial Recognition App Was Only Used By Employees
Facebook built a facial recognition app that was intended only for internal use, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat on Friday (Nov. 22). ...
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ResTechFacing The Fast Future Of QSR Payments Experiences
Make sure to bring more than your appetite when you dine out in the 2020s, especially at a quick-service restaurant (QSR). You...
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BiometricsIndian Café Criticized For Billing Customers Through Facial Scanning
Customers at a popular Indian cafe chain are unhappy that the company is using facial recognition software to bill its customers, CNN...
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NewsApple Card Growth, Flywire Hire and B2B Changes Top Week’s News
Are you ready for the weekend? We sure are. But here at the PYMNTS Weekender, we want to make sure you didn’t...
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Today In DataThe Evolution Of Retail With Digital Ordering, Social Media
U.S. consumers are turning to technology to place food orders, and restaurants are looking to enhance the digital ordering experience. At the same...
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Restaurant innovationTrending: Malibu Poke Gets Personal With Facial Recognition To Order, Pay
U.S. consumers are increasingly turning to digital technology to place food orders. A recent study found online food delivery orders increased nearly...
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Restaurant innovationWhen Restaurant Tech Sees Your Face And Identifies Your Taste
Facial recognition tech could give the old restaurant axiom “service with a smile” a whole new meaning, by allowing customers to reorder...
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AuthenticationThe Science Behind Affirm’s Identity Data Play
Digital identities are gaining popularity across industries as businesses, services and other operations increasingly move online. Consumers are normalizing the use of...
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FacebookFacebook Facing $35B Fine Over Facial Recognition Lawsuit
A class action lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that people in Illinois didn’t consent to have their photos used with the company’s facial...
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BiometricsSnapPay Merchants Can Now Accept Facial Recognition Payments
Global payments solution SnapPay announced the rollout of facial recognition payment technology for North American merchants. SnapPay said the technology gives users...
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AmazonAmazon Prioritizes Equal Pay, Fraud Prevention And Data Privacy
Online retail giant Amazon says it will launch into new markets amid an uncertain sea of controversies and regulations, CNBC reported on...
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BiometricsWorld Economic Forum: Facial Recognition Poses Privacy Risk
As more nations mull tapping into facial recognition technology to bolster security, an expert at the World Economic Forum said governments should...
