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Biometrics & Digital Identity Verification – 2021 Data Protection & Privacy Regulation Insights The events of 2020 have prompted a dramatic acceleration of online access, cyberattacks against businesses and consumers, and news headlines about the use of physical biometrics technology like facial recognition to prosecute crimes – or commit them. One of the more novel approaches in this space is behavioral biometrics which is used to assure that the person on the other end of that network connection is who they claim to be, based on how they engage. But what are the regulatory, legal, and ...

Last Updated: 6th March, 2021 11:50 IST Loved 'Scam 1992' & Can't Wait For The Sequel? Here Are 7 Movies/shows To Binge-watch If you loved 'Scam 1992: Harshad Mehta Story', here's a list of seven engrossing shows and movies that you should watch! Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story is a drama series directed by Hansal Mehta that released on October 9, 2020. The 10-episode series that streamed on SonyLIV is one of the most engrossing adaptations of a real-life event on-screen. Scam 1992 plot follows the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of Indian stockbroker Harshad Mehta in the countr...

Credit: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 2021 (IPS) - A sign outside a laundry in New York city had a frivolously flippant slogan: “We launder dirty clothes, not dirty money.” And a 2019 movie titled “Laundromat,” based on a book ‘Secrecy World’ by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jake Bernstein, exposed the byzantine world of money laundering. That’s the insidiously darker side of the world’s financial system – with millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains finding safety in offshore banks– a crime perpetrated on a global scale, says a High-Level P...

29th Mar 2021 We're coming up to yet another long weekend in lockdown, so Netflix is an obvious choice. Here are our picks of series (and one film) to binge. The Laundromat There are echoes of Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning 2000 film  Erin Brockovich in his newest film just for Netflix, that of an unlikely and underestimated woman (in this case, the great Meryl Streep) who attempts to take on and bring down an insurance fraud scheme. Based on Jake Bernstein’s book  Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite,  The Laundromat...

Walter Bernstein, scriptwriter who skewered McCarthy-era blacklist in ‘The Front,’ dies at 101 Adam Bernstein Walter Bernstein, a scriptwriter who was blacklisted in the 1950s for his Communist Party membership and two decades later skewered the McCarthy era in “The Front,” a film that starred Woody Allen in a rare semi-serious role and earned an Oscar nomination for best screenplay, died Jan. 23 at his home in Manhattan. He was 101. The cause was pneumonia, said his wife, literary agent Gloria Loomis. Mr. Bernstein first published in the New Yorker at 20 and d...