Digital Identity Friday Five: May 31, 2024

Covering the most interesting news for the week of May 25 to May 31

Today is Friday, May 31. I don’t have five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week. I have ten!

1/ Ticketmaster breached - data of over 500 million users allegedly put up for sale online

2/ Token Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Rob Osterwise as CTO and Tim Tonges as CRO

3/ ID Dataweb and IBM Announce Expanded Relationship to Help Advance Identity Verification

4/ FIDO Alliance launches Face Verification Certification

5/ Treasury Prime Partners with Onboarding Identity Provider Footprint

6/ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reports First Results From Age Estimation Software Evaluation

7/ FindBiometrics: The Prism Project Report Finds $40B Opportunity for Biometrics in Financial Services

8/ CLEAR and Public Announce Partnership to Deliver Secure, Transparent, and Frictionless Investing to Consumers

9/ Sumsub Data Shows Surge in Deepfakes in the Middle East and in Countries With 2024 Elections

10/ CNBC: Deepfake scams have robbed companies of millions

Wow! What a week #epicten

*** LINKS

TICKETMASTER: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/ticketmaster-breached-data-of-over-500-million-users-allegedly-put-up-for-sale-online

TOKEN: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/token-expands-leadership-team-appointment-120000187.html

ID DATAWEB: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/id-dataweb-and-ibm-announce-expanded-relationship-to-help-advance-identity-verification-302158048.html

FIDO: https://fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance-addresses-accuracy-bias-in-remote-biometric-identity-verification-technologies-industry-first-testing-certification-program/

FOOTPRINT: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240528717917/en/Treasury-Prime-Partners-with-Onboarding-Identity-Provider-Footprint

NIST: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/05/nist-reports-first-results-age-estimation-software-evaluation

NIST REPORT: https://pages.nist.gov/frvt/reports/aev/fate_aev_report.pdf

FINDBIOMETRICS: https://findbiometrics.com/prism-report-finds-40b-opportunity-for-biometrics-in-financial-services/

THE PRISM PROJECT: https://www.the-prism-project.com/fs-prism-download

CLEAR: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/clear-public-announce-partnership-deliver-124500089.html

SUMSUB: https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/news-releases/sumsub-data-shows-surge-in-deepfakes-in-the-middle-east-and-in-countries-with-2024-elections-302158940.html

CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/deepfake-scams-have-looted-millions-experts-warn-it-could-get-worse.html