The $25 Million Deepfake: Why Your Video Calls Can No Longer Be Trusted

An employee saw the CFO on video. Heard colleagues speaking. Authorized $25M in transfers. Every person was an AI-generated deepfake ...
“Prove Your Age, Lose Your Privacy”: How Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Turns Porn Sites into Surveillance Platforms

“Prove Your Age, Lose Your Privacy”: How Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Turns Porn Sites into Surveillance Platforms

A statute that requires identity verification to read news articles or shop for groceries would be problematic; one that does so for pornography is catastrophic ...
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Protecting the Future of Digital Identities

Protecting the Future of Digital Identities

In recent years, digital identities have gained popularity and have been implemented by many national governments to serve as the basis of our modern digital society. In the near future, we can ...
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The Rise of Mastodon, Twitter in Trouble, Largest Privacy Settlement in US History

The Rise of Mastodon, Twitter in Trouble, Largest Privacy Settlement in US History

Former Twitter users are migrating en masse to Mastodon so what is Mastodon and what do you need to know about Mastodon from a security and privacy perspective? Twitter was flooded by ...
Authentication, Identity Verification, and Identification: What's the Difference

Authentication, Identity Verification, and Identification: What’s the Difference

People usually consider authentication, id verification, and identification the same thing, but they are entirely different when we see stuff through the lens of information security experts. Learn the fundamental differences between ...
Solving the Puzzle of Global Identity Verification

Solving the Puzzle of Global Identity Verification

With customer bases that span the globe and the growing prevalence of online fraud, financial service providers know that effective identity verification (IDV) is imperative. But meeting anti-money laundering (AML) and know ...
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The Human Touch in Identity Verification

The Human Touch in Identity Verification

Businesses and consumers alike are growing more dependent on AI every day. The technology serves as the foundation of almost every digital assistant, search engine, online shopping recommendation or automated technology we ...
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Identity Verification: Is Your Potential Employee Who They Say They Are?

Identity verification has taken on a new urgency for cybersecurity and IT teams in the new era of remote work. Confirming a person’s identity has been important since the advent of data ...
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Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Data – Part 1

The collection and reporting of data relating to the coronavirus pandemic and related medical research and practices are in a shambles. For example, a June 7, 2020 article by Jason Slotkin cites ...