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Fingerprint Cards appoints financial advisor, announces exercise of warrants

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Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has announced the appointment of its new financial advisor: Piper Jaffray, with the aim of assisting the company to evaluate various strategic and financing opportunities. “Over the last six months, I have got to know the San Francisco-based technology team of Piper Jaffray quite well, and I believe they are second to none in terms of professionalism, industry knowledge and as financial advisors,” CEO Johan Carlström said. “I feel very comfortable in working with Piper Jaffray towards our goal

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Precise Biometrics Tactivo gets MFi approval from Apple

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Precise Biometric’s fourth-generation Tactivo for iPad has been MFi-approved by Apple and is ready for launch. According to the company, Tactivo for iPad 4th generation is the first mobile smart cars and fingerprints reader based on the new Lightning connector for idevices. Since, launch, Precise has made quite a splash with its Tactivo product and has announced that an iteration for android is in the works. The Tactivo aims to improve authentication for government agencies and companies and supports both traditional

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Legal battle continues regarding biometric verification in Ghanaian election

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Nearly six months after the country’s most recent election, results are still being contested in Ghana in regards to the biometric verification of voters. Most recently, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice Presidential candidate for Ghana’s New Patriotic Party and a main witness in the on-going petition in front of Ghana’s Supreme Court testified that all voters, even those without fingers or those unreadable fingers, were registered using facial recognition. According to a report in GhanaWeb, counsel for the Electoral Commission

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Beehive Biometrics nabs $50K financing, plans beta testing soon

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Beehive Biometrics – which launched this year — has received $50,000 of financing from a lone investor. According Beehive’s website, the company uses “advanced identity technology, along with private and public data sources to establish the Beehive Identity Score” – its own measure of confidence to ensure users are backed by real people. In a video submitted by the founders to a Microsoft Accelerator program — Dr. Alex Kirkpatrick  and Mary Haskett — the two indicate that the modalities Beehive is

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New BioEnable Technologies ten-fingerprint scanner gets STQC certification for use in Aadhaar

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BioEnable Technologies’ DactyScan84c ten-fingerprint scanner has been awarded the final STQC certification for the Aadhaar project. According to the company, the new scanner, which rolls live scans at 500 dpi, is also suitable for national government ID programs, immigration Visa applications, as well as for law enforcement agencies. “With our 10 years of experience in working in fingerprint technology, DactyScan84c was launched in partnership with Greenbit Italy and certified by STQC keeping the problems being face by enrollment agencies in mind,

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California school district tests palm scanners in cafeterias

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A middle school and an elementary school in the Hawthorne school district in California are testing palm scanners in their cafeterias in an attempt to speed up lunch service. Reported by CBS Los Angeles, five parents have so far opted out of the program, and many students have yet to adopt the new technology at Ramona Elementary and Hawthorne Middle schools. Under the old system, students entered a 5-digit pin code to verify their identity and receive lunch, allowing the

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Capriles challenges Venezuelan election result, demands full audit including fingerprint records

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Following the death of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an election was held in the country and it came down to the wire. Chavez’s hand-picked successor, Nicolás Maduro won the election by less than 2 percent and now Henrique Capriles Radonski, leader of the opposition, is demanding an audit of the entire election including fingerprints stored in the election registry. At a press conference this week, Capriles demanded the National Election Council begin the audit immediately and that he and

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Taiwanese Ministry of the Interior says biometric system could be in place by December

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The Ministry of the Interior of Taiwan has announced that it will begin using a biometric system at border control points, as soon as the end of this year. “The Executive Yuan has approved the ministry’s plan to use biometric identification technology at border control points and we will start collecting biometric information from visiting foreigners as well as from Taiwanese with no household registration information this year,” Deputy Minister of the Interior Hsiao Chia-chi said. “This will better maintain border

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Biometric data of 300,000 Aadhaar applicants lost in Maharashtra

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Confirming the worst fear of those already untrusting of national biometric systems, the Maharashtra government has lost the biometric data of about 300,000 Aadhaar applicants in India. Reported by the Times of India, the data was being uploaded by the state information technology department from Mumbai to the central Bangalore server of the UIDAI when it was lost. “The information in encrypted when uploaded,” an official from the state IT department was quoted as saying. “While the transmission was in

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Facebanx launches online face recognition technology

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British company, Facebanx has launched a new online facial recognition technology that it says will enable banks, payment processors and ID verification companies to reduce fraud. “Our product has been specifically designed for the online payments industry and provides a unique solution for processors to share data to combat multiple acts of fraud,” Matthew Silverstone, CEO of Facebanx said. “We are currently in discussions with a number of processing companies, banks and merchants as well as the insurance industry about adding

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