For online merchants, knowing that the person on the other side of the transaction is who they say there are is of critical importance. Synthetic ID...
Biometrics isn’t as sci-fi as it once was. Thanks to smartphones equipped with facial and fingerprint recognition for security, many consumers now have up close...
Digital identities are flexibly changing forms as they gain ubiquity. Consumers around the world log in to eBay with their Facebook profiles, purchase lunches with...
Facebook said it is going to enhance encryption capabilities on its Messenger communication platform, despite requests from lawmakers and regulators not to do so because...
Facebook’s 2012 policy changes that denied app developers access to user data was actually about stifling competition, not protecting user privacy, according to documents reviewed...
India’s Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is asking the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp for the details of the hack that compromised the smartphones of journalists,...
Mastercard is introducing a Data Responsibility Imperative to spark a conversation with other companies about data security, Mastercard said in a press release on Oct....
The CEO of Foursquare, a location data company, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times Wednesday (Oct. 16), saying, “It’s time for Congress...
Earlier this month, New Delhi’s airport became the nation’s fourth to test a new use case for facial recognition technology: A system that will allow...