The unique number will be put on an identity card which will have biometric authentication, such as fingerprints and photographs.

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Veritel of America is one of a number of vendors demonstrating voice authentication technologies.

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He also advised adopting two-step authentication, which involves a personalised "secret number" allocated to users in addition to a username and password, and ensuring that the latest version of Wordpress is installed.

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Nevertheless, of the ten workshops put on by the FTC last year identity theft, security, and authentication seem to not have been addressed, although a number of workshops dealt with issues of privacy broadly.

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