The future of MFA is passwordless

Secret Double Octopus and Dimensional Research surveyed over 300 IT professionals with responsibility for workforce identities and their security at organizations with more than 1,000 employees, in order to learn more about the state of workforce passw… Continue reading The future of MFA is passwordless

We’re Entering the Age of Unethical Voice Tech

In 2019, Google released a synthetic speech database with a very specific goal: stopping audio deepfakes.  “Malicious actors may synthesize speech to try to fool voice authentication systems,” the Google News Initiative blog reported at the time. “Perhaps equally concerning, public awareness of “deep fakes” (audio or video clips generated by deep learning models) can […]

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Congress reaches compromise on draft privacy legislation

Newly proposed federal privacy framework comes with protections for biometric data and against discrimination.

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Advocates urge Amazon to drop controversial DHS surveillance program

HART will become the one-stop shop for profiles that combine data from other DHS projects.

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