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Project Lifesaver Partners With FaceTec to Identify At-Risk Children and Adults

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UR® Codes chosen to provide first responders with critical identity information

SUMMERLIN, Nev., Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — FaceTec, Inc., the world leader in 3D biometric cybersecurity and identity verification, is proud to announce an important partnership with Project Lifesaver International, the premier search-and-rescue program created to find and bring to safety at-risk individuals prone to the life-threatening tendency to leave their safe environment due to autism, dementia, and other cognitive conditions.

The primary mission of Project Lifesaver is to provide timely responses to saving lives and reducing potential injury for adults and children with the propensity to leave their safe housing due to cognitive conditions. Formed out of search and rescue 27 years ago, Project Lifesaver equips and trains local sheriffs, police, and first responders with specialized locating technologies, innovative search-and-rescue methods, and education so at-risk individuals can be quickly and safely recovered, ultimately “bringing loved ones home”, while offering peace of mind to caregivers. It was the first organization to significantly address the elopement issue among at-risk individuals, and since 1999 has been the only nonprofit organization actively educating and equipping public safety agencies in the protection, search, and safe recovery of those who have become lost. To date, Project Lifesaver has rescued more than 4,650 lost individuals.

In partnership with Project Lifesaver, FaceTec is providing advanced biometric identity verification technology to the location bracelets provided to the at-risk population. Adding UR Codes to bracelets, and issuing additional UR Codes on labels for clothes, shoes, and other personal items, provides extra layers of identity assurance, supporting identification. Any good samaritan with a smartphone in the community can now scan the UR Code, see the encoded identity information, see designated contact information for the local law enforcement or specified first responder, and match the biometric data in the UR Code to the lost person’s face, positively identifying the individual.

“FaceTec is honored to be working with Project Lifesaver to enhance the ability of first responders to identify individuals who have become lost or disoriented. UR Codes provide a secure, cost-effective means of accessing an individual’s identity information, emergency contact information and specific needs,” said Owen McShane, FaceTec’s VP of Government Relations.

“We have worked closely with Gene Saunders and the Project Lifesaver team to adapt UR Codes to their locator bracelet so that anyone in a community can now be empowered to assist first responders to find and identify at-risk individuals who have gone missing,” said Trevor Chaplick, FaceTec’s Chief Legal Officer and VP for Corporate Development.

At its annual conference in Orlando, Project Lifesaver International announced the adoption of FaceTec’s UR Codes nationwide. Gene Saunders, the founder and CEO of Project Lifesaver International, believes that UR Codes close a critical gap in Project Lifesaver’s ability to more quickly identify a participant and empower the community to help accelerate the identification and rescue process.

“Project Lifesaver and FaceTec, working together with the UR Codes, will considerably broaden our member agencies’ ability to quickly and safely identify located individuals and return them home,” Saunders said.

In full support of the program and partnership from law enforcement, Saratoga County Sheriff Jeff Brown added, “My agency has been using FaceTec for our HR 218 and retiree ID cards for some time. The UR Codes have brought them to the next level of security.”

Further, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said, “A UR Code on sheriffs’ IDs lets partner agencies, businesses, or citizens instantly verify a credential is current and unrevoked, reducing impersonation and speeding up verification. It’s also useful for retirees, letting anyone quickly confirm active HR 218 (LEOSA) qualification status without a phone call or paperwork.”

FaceTec licensed its UR Code software at no cost and in perpetuity to Project Lifesaver, demonstrating its strong support for Project Lifesaver’s mission of saving lives in our most vulnerable populations.

More information and upcoming, related events can be found at the following links:

Project Lifesaver 2026 Conference

Identity Week America Panel Discussion, Sept 2, 16:45 – 17:05
How UR codes are being used by law enforcement in the US, Seminar Theater B
Moderator: Owen McShane, VP of Government Relations, FaceTec, Inc.
Panel participants: Craig D. Apple Sr, Sheriff, Albany County; Gene Saunders, Founder, Project Lifesaver; Mike Zurlo, Education Outreach Coordinator, FaceTec, Inc.

Introduction To UR Codes By Owen McShane, Education 2.0 Keynote USA 2026: How Biometric Technology can Help Fight the Rising Tide of Identity Fraud and Fake IDs

White paper: UR Codes Provide Superior Matching & Fraud Mitigation in Healthcare

About UR Codes

FaceTec’s UR Codes enable codeholders to prove their legal identity, age, and the right to access their accounts or privileges with high confidence, both in-person and remotely. UR Codes can contain embedded, digitally-signed biometric and legal identity information, ensuring privacy-preserving, decentralized identity verification. Safely storing unique, signed face data, personal info, and legal identity data, UR Codes provide secure, low-cost, two-party identity verification at unlimited scale in any identity-related scenario from any issuing authority, such as a DMV, passport issuer, school, or employer. For more information, visit the following resources:

An Introduction to UR CodesThe UR Encoder DemoLearn more at URCodes.com

About FaceTec

FaceTec is a global force in the fight against identity fraud. For use on standard, ubiquitous digital devices, FaceTec’s patented biometric security software solutions provide exceptionally secure, remote, unsupervised identity verification and authentication, ensuring that only the legitimate account owner is allowed access to their valuable or sensitive digital services, assets, and systems.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in the US with staff in the UK, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, and Canada, FaceTec is the world’s leading provider of 3D face biometric Liveness and matching software, processing over 4 billion 3D Liveness Checks in the last 12 months, protecting sensitive information in high-risk, high-value environments, including banking and finance, government, major e-commerce, global social networks, digital national IDs and mobile driver licenses, and much more.

FaceTec’s AI-driven technology employs advanced algorithms and deep learning models to accurately and securely bind, verify, and re-verify individuals based on their unique face biometrics. FaceTec’s patented, industry-leading Certified 3D Liveness Detection and face matching, UR® Codes, optical character recognition, Know Your Customer (KYC), and age estimation technology anchor the chain of trust in the IDV process for secure access to mobile and web applications.

FaceTec technology has been exhaustively tested against tens-of-millions of digital and physical spoof artifacts – including high-resolution photos and videos, life-like masks, and mannequin heads – as well as against much more sophisticated injection and bypass-type attacks, all of which are now easily blocked. With ongoing, advanced AI development and the world’s only Spoof Bounty Program, FaceTec continues to stay ahead of ever-changing attack methods.

For more information and business inquiries, please visit FaceTec.com. For media inquiries, please contact John Wojewidka at JohnW@FaceTec.com.

About FaceTec 3D Face Verification

FaceTec’s pioneering, patented 3D Face Biometrics are the global standard in secure onboarding, KYC, Identity verification and reverification, to stop ID fraud and protect billions of people on six continents from unauthorized usage of their identities.

FaceTec’s 3D Face Verification Platform features:

100% data-sovereign, customer-run software: no user data is sent to FaceTecWorld-leading 3D Face Matching rate at 1-in-125 million FAR at <1% FRRPatented UI generates data-rich 3D FaceMaps® from standard 2D camerasUR® Codes enable secure, low-cost two-party remote identity verification$600,000 Spoof Bounty Program certified Level 4 in Spoof/Bypass Security TestingLevel 1-5 Certified 3D Liveness Detection, and Level 4 Bypass CertificationUnphishable 3D FaceMaps ensure trust without creating honeypotsSupport for all modern smartphones, tablets, and PCs with webcamsKYC/IDV Dashboard with integrated 1-to-N deduplication to catch fraudstersWorld-leading 1-in-2 million FAR 3D FaceMap-to-2D-photo-ID matchingAnonymous, better-than-human 3D age estimation and 3D age checksFast, intuitive interface with 98-99% first-time-user success ratesEasy to integrate, customize, deploy, and manage

Developers can download FaceTec’s demo apps directly from FaceTec.com for iOS, Android, and any modern browser. FaceTec sample apps are also available for free testing at dev.facetec.com.

About Liveness.com

Liveness.com is an educational resource for biometrics users, vendors, analysts, media, and regulators, providing a comprehensive history of Level 1-5 Presentation Attack Detection, Template Tampering, and Camera Bypasses, as well as explanations of methods and means for evaluation, certification testing, and bounty programs.

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Action1 Expands Endpoint Management with New Configuration Management and Enrollment and Provisioning Modules

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New capabilities help IT teams bring endpoints under management faster, respond to emerging threats, and continuously maintain secure configurations

HOUSTON, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Action1, a leading provider of autonomous endpoint management (AEM) solutions, today announced two new endpoint management modules: Endpoint Configuration Management and Endpoint Enrollment and Provisioning. The separately licensed modules extend Action1’s endpoint management capabilities, helping organizations rapidly bring Windows endpoints under management and continuously maintain them in line with approved security configurations.

Action1 adds new endpoint management modules to accelerate onboarding, remediation, and secure configuration management.

As AI accelerates the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities, the time available for IT teams to respond is shrinking. Action1 Endpoint Enrollment and Provisioning is built to help reduce that gap by allowing organizations to quickly enroll selected Windows endpoints through Microsoft Intune and immediately apply the software, vulnerability remediation, and configuration policies required to bring them into a managed state.

Once an endpoint is enrolled, the provisioning feature runs assigned automations to deploy software, patch vulnerabilities, and apply configuration policies, while allowing IT teams to monitor the results – all from a single console. This helps organizations shorten the path from discovering exposure to taking remediation action across affected endpoints.

Action1 Endpoint Configuration Management addresses another persistent endpoint security challenge: configuration drift. Organizations can define configuration policies using established security frameworks and benchmarks, including Microsoft Security Baselines, CIS, DISA STIGs, NIST, and others, or select individual security controls based on their requirements.

Policies can be assigned to endpoint groups in either assessment-only or assessment-and-remediation mode. Action1 automations assess endpoints for configuration drift, remediate settings that have moved outside the approved baseline, and report the resulting compliance status.

“Endpoint security increasingly comes down to speed and consistency,” said Mike Walters, President and Co-founder of Action1. “When new threats emerge, organizations need to bring endpoints under management quickly but also ensure they remain securely configured afterward. Action1’s Enrollment and Provisioning and Configuration Management address both sides of that challenge: accelerating the path to a secure, managed state and continuously keeping them there.”

Together, the new modules broaden Action1’s endpoint management capabilities around three critical security outcomes: rapidly establishing management coverage across endpoints, reducing the window between exposure and remediation, and preventing configuration drift from creating new security gaps.

The new Endpoint Enrollment and Provisioning module enables organizations to:

Enroll selected Windows endpoints into Action1 through Microsoft IntuneAutomatically deploy the Action1 Agent during enrollmentAssign provisioning automations to newly enrolled endpointsDeploy required softwareRemediate vulnerabilitiesApply configuration policiesMonitor provisioning results in Action1

The new Endpoint Configuration Management module enables organizations to:

Create and maintain secure Windows endpoint configuration policiesBuild policies from established security baselines or individual controlsApply policies to selected endpoint groupsAssess endpoints for configuration driftAutomatically remediate configuration deviationsMonitor and report configuration compliance

Both Endpoint Enrollment and Provisioning and Endpoint Configuration Management are available as separately licensed modules and are not included in the standard Action1 platform license.

For more information, visit www.Action1.com.

About Action1

Action1 is an autonomous patch management platform trusted by many Fortune 500 companies. Cloud-native, infinitely scalable, highly secure, and configurable in 5 minutes—it just works and is always free for the first 200 endpoints, with no functional limits. By pioneering autonomous OS and third-party patching with peer-to-peer patch distribution and real-time vulnerability assessment and remediation without needing a VPN, it eliminates routine labor, preempts ransomware and security risks, and protects the digital employee experience.

In 2026, Action1 was recognized by Inc. 5000 as the fastest-growing founder-led cybersecurity company in America. At the helm of Action1 are industry veterans Alex Vovk and Mike Walters, American entrepreneurs who founded Netwrix, which has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry-leading cybersecurity company. 

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Greenberg Traurig Deploys the Next Generation of CoCounsel Legal

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AmLaw 20 firm’s four-year collaboration with Thomson Reuters culminates in the rollout of agentic AI built to work through the stages of a legal matter

NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters’ agentic artificial intelligence (AI) for legal professionals. The rollout gives lawyers across the firm’s global offices access to AI that can plan, research, and draft across a matter.

The deployment builds on four years of collaboration in which Greenberg Traurig attorneys received early access to CoCounsel Legal, participated in beta testing, and helped shape product development and integrations.

“What distinguishes Greenberg Traurig is not technology alone, but the talented professionals who use it to help solve complex challenges for our clients. We have historically embraced innovation where it can create meaningful value, and the deployment of CoCounsel Legal reflects that philosophy. By combining this technology with the experience and judgment of our lawyers, we are enhancing our ability to deliver efficient, forward-looking, and client-centered legal services,” Greenberg Traurig Chief Executive Officer Brian L. Duffy said.

Built for how legal work actually gets done

The next generation of CoCounsel Legal plans an approach, retrieves authoritative content, reasons through the issues, and drafts with citations, adapting mid-workflow as new facts emerge. Every output is grounded in Westlaw and Practical Law content, guided by 35 million West Key Number classifications and 3.9 million Precision Research attributes, with reasoning and citations attorneys can inspect rather than simply accept. Brief Builder extends this further, turning that grounded research and reasoning directly into a structured, court-ready draft brief.

“Our longstanding work with Thomson Reuters and our involvement in CoCounsel’s development gave us a clear understanding of the platform’s capabilities,” Greenberg Traurig Chief Pricing and Innovation Officer Matthew N. Beekhuizen said. “Its integration with DeepJudge, Westlaw, and Practical Law will help our lawyers access firm and legal knowledge more effectively while maintaining the quality and professional judgment our clients expect.”

“The legal industry is moving beyond AI that simply generates answers, and Greenberg Traurig’s deployment shows what that shift looks like in practice,” Thomson Reuters President, Legal Professionals Raghu Ramanathan said. “The next generation of CoCounsel Legal helps its lawyers turn insight into action by combining trusted legal content, agentic intelligence, and workflow execution in a single experience, grounded in the transparency and accountability of our Fiduciary-Grade AI™ standard. That’s a fundamentally different approach to legal AI, and Greenberg Traurig is helping lead the profession in putting it to work.”

Innovation with guardrails

Innovation is part of Greenberg Traurig’s DNA and core values. The firm has long been an early adopter of transformative technology, and its approach to AI is no different: actively shaping the tools its lawyers use rather than simply adopting them. Clients are made aware that lawyers use AI on their matters, and AI-generated work products are reviewed by lawyers handling the matter and by supervising shareholders before they reach a client.

Greenberg Traurig maintains a governance framework centered on the responsible use of AI. The firm’s commitment to responsible AI reflects a core tenet of firm culture, supported by rigorous information security and due diligence protocols that are applied to each AI tool deployed. These protocols are specifically designed to help ensure that AI models utilized by the firm do not train on client data, and that data rights and confidentiality obligations are respected at every stage. Greenberg Traurig is committed to bringing the efficiencies and advantages the best AI tools have to offer to its clients without compromising the protection of the data entrusted to it. 

About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has approximately 3,200 lawyers across 51 locations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm’s broad geographic and practice range enables the delivery of innovative and strategic legal services across borders and industries. Recognized as a 2025 BTI “Best of the Best Recommended Law Firm” by general counsel for trust and relationship management, Greenberg Traurig is consistently ranked among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100, NLJ 500, and Law360 400. Greenberg Traurig is also known for its philanthropic giving, culture, innovation, and pro bono work. Web: www.gtlaw.com.

About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, audit, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world- leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information, visit thomsonreuters.com.

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Capital Group Announces Appointment of New Chief Information Officer

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Guillermo Veiga joins in November from Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Capital Group, the world’s largest global active investment manager, announced the appointment of Guillermo Veiga as Chief Information Officer. He will join the company in November, succeeding Marta Zarraga, who will retire at the end of the year. Guillermo will relocate to California from Singapore, where he currently serves as Group Chief Information and Operations Officer at Standard Chartered Bank.

“Technology, data and AI play an increasingly important role in how we deliver investment excellence, serve clients globally and scale our business,” said Rob Klausner, Chief Operating Officer, Capital Group. “Guillermo brings a rare combination of deep technology expertise, operational leadership and global transformation experience. His track record leading large, complex organizations makes him the right leader to help advance Capital’s long-term strategy and position us for the opportunities ahead.”

Born in Uruguay and raised in Spain, Guillermo began his career as a hands-on technologist and has held senior leadership roles across Europe and Asia at Amazon Web Services, Cisco and Banco Santander, pairing deep technical fluency with strong operating experience.

“I was drawn by Capital Group’s long-term commitment to its people and culture paired with its client-centric mindset,” said Guillermo. “Capital is on the cutting edge of technology, and the opportunity to help lead during a period of global expansion for the company, amid the growing ability of data and AI to transform ways of working, is exciting.”

About Capital Group

As Capital Group approaches its 100th anniversary in 2031, its long-term strategy remains firmly rooted in its mission to improve people’s lives through successful investing. With over 9,000 associates and 34 offices around the world, Capital Group manages $3.6 trillion in assets for millions of wealth management and institutional clients around the world*.

*As of June 30, 2026.

© 2026 Capital Group. All rights reserved.

Media contact:
Caroline Semerdjian, Capital Group
Caroline.semerdjian@capgroup.com
(213) 615-3185

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