Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint. You probably didn’t hear about it. The case didn’t get a lot of coverage, especially because the courts weren’t giving a blanket green light …
Amazon is making it easier for consumers to use its palm payment tool Amazon One. “Until today, customers had to visit a physical location to hover their palm over an Amazon One device to sign up for the service,” the company said in a news release Thursday (March 28). “Now, they can sign up for Amazon One from home, …
Earned wage access firm Instant Financial released a new mobile app and updated mobile wallet. “Understanding that over 50% of Americans would likely avoid major financial pitfalls if they could instantly access a portion of their pay after every day’s work, the new Instant mobile app is narrowing this financial gap by placing financial empowerment directly into the hands …
In a blog post, the regulator said it had warned Serco Leisure, Serco Jersey and seven associated community leisure trusts to cease using the technology to track employees. Staff have no clear way to opt out of the monitoring system, which increases the power imbalance in the workplace, the ICO said. Employees were not offered …
A team of American and Chinese researchers claims to have found a way to exploit a vulnerability in a widely used biometric authentication method used to secure smartphones. The researchers say their study is the first to use the sound of a user’s swipe to infer their fingerprint and that it “rings the alarm bells” …
Report: 47 Percent of Internet Traffic is From Bots Imperva Inc. recently released 2023 Imperva Bad Bot Report, a global analysis of automated bot traffic across the internet. In 2022, nearly half (47.4%) of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year. The proportion of human traffic (52.6%) decreased to …