The Economist Business in Italy The Economist MATTEO RENZI’S government is like a Ferrari, declared Giorgio Squinzi, the boss of Confindustria, Italy’s main business lobby, at a gathering this month.

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The Senate of Kazakhstan has approved a far-reaching bill on physical culture and sports that among other things, requires athletes to learn the country’s national anthem, RFE/RL reports.

ALMATY, June 26 (Xinhua) — Kazakhstan’s Senate ratified an agreement Thursday between the Central Asian nation and Russia on cooperation in transporting Russian oil to China.

Methods used to prove one’s identity online today are based on the same three approaches throughout history and carry varying levels of assurance.

The industry developed the Level of Assurance concept as a means of checking the trustworthiness of a digital identity. A digital identity is determined by the authentication means, such as a smartcard, text message, one-time …

A PayPal error made it possible to bypass two-factor authentication on a user account, demonstrating what can go wrong in deploying a tricky security mechanism.

A Senate subcommittee this week approved a request from the United States Department of Homeland Security for nearly a quarter-of-a-billion dollars to be used on a state-of-the-art biometric system. On Tuesday, the Senate …

Most citizens would share their biometric details for international travel ComputerworldUK When asked about the specific benefits of sharing biometrics, almost two-thirds (62 percent) of those surveyed are willing to share biometric information to…

Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer. (The FBI’s dystopian biometrics data center is set to go live this summer.