Echoworx, which has over 1M users in 30 countries using its email protection platform, is serving up a passwordless authentication via biometrics. This aligns with Gartner’s 2019 projection that by 2022, “90% of midsize enterprises, will implement passwordless methods in more than 50% of use cases.”
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The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) has released its 2021 Privacy Tech Vendor Report, which shows 356 vendors in 11 categories, up from 304 in 2020 and from 44 when they started tracking in 2017.
This was in response to concern that on Android, the app, which alerts users of possible exposure to a person with COVID19, might allow data to be picked up by other apps.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.