Biometric Update for May 21, 2019

Daily biometrics news and exclusive features about biometrics companies.

Digitizing Africa: the Transform Africa summit and leading voices

By Frank Hersey

A blueprint for digital economies and MOUs signed with Inmarsat and French consultancy Tactis – some of the outcomes of…

ZenGo Wallet secures crypto assets with FaceTec facial biometrics

By Chris Burt

Cryptographic asset wallet startup ZenGo has implemented a password-free security architecture based on multiple security layers including biometric 3D face…

Is the UK ready to go cashless?

By David Orme

This is a guest post by David Orme, Senior Vice President at IDEX Biometrics. With the UK’s free-to-use ATMs rapidly…

HYPR Joins FIDO Alliance board, names CTO and co-founder delegate

By Stephen Mayhew

HYPR Corp. has been appointed to the FIDO Alliance Board of Directors and has named its cofounder and chief technology…

NEC forms strategic alliance to bring new digital services to citizens in rural India

By Stephen Mayhew

NEC Technologies India (NECTI) and CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd (CSC SPV) have formed a strategic alliance to jointly develop…

Russian biometrics executives discuss Moscow surveillance system

By Chris Burt

Russian daily RiaNovosti recently interviewed a pair of biometrics company executives about the facial recognition system Moscow is planning to…

Apple files patent for pin-hole optical in-display Touch ID biometrics

By Chris Burt

Apple could return Touch ID to iPhones as an in-display feature with pin-hole cameras, according to a patent published by…

Indian government considers opening Aadhaar biometric KYC authentication to fintechs

By Chris Burt

Digital financial services companies in India may soon be able to authenticate customers with biometrics using Aadhaar, as The Economic…

MultiVu raises $7M to bring single-sensor 3D facial biometrics to smartphones

By Chris Burt

3D imaging startup MultiVu has raised $7 million in a seed funding round to develop its single-sensor and deep learning…

More than a quarter million Rohingya refugees have legal ID after biometric registration

By Chris Burt

More than 270,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have been biometrically registered and received identity cards, the first time many of…

Opinions roll in on whether to ban, regulate, or hardly regulate biometric facial recognition

By Chris Burt

SenseTime CEO and Co-founder Xu Li is calling for cities to establish regulations for biometric facial recognition in response to…

SecuGen adds SDK Plugin for Remote Desktop to portfolio of free biometric software

By Stephen Mayhew

The newly released SecuGen SDK Plugin for Microsoft Remote Desktop allows users of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services to scan their…

Digitizing Africa: the Transform Africa summit and leading voices

Russian biometrics executives discuss Moscow surveillance system

Opinions roll in on whether to ban, regulate, or hardly regulate biometric facial recognition

More than a quarter million Rohingya refugees have legal ID after biometric registration

NEC forms strategic alliance to bring new digital services to citizens in rural India

Biometrics research briefs: AFIS, identity verification, Europe, and voice biometrics

SecuGen adds SDK Plugin for Remote Desktop to portfolio of free biometric software

ZenGo Wallet secures crypto assets with FaceTec facial biometrics

HYPR Joins FIDO Alliance board, names CTO and co-founder delegate

Apple files patent for pin-hole optical in-display Touch ID biometrics

MultiVu raises $7M to bring single-sensor 3D facial biometrics to smartphones

Indian government considers opening Aadhaar biometric KYC authentication to fintechs

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Biometric Update offers exclusive features and in-depth interviews with executives in the biometrics industry.

EKG biometrics from B-Secur to be featured in 2020 car models

By Chris Burt

B-Secur CEO Alan Foreman is meeting with four major U.S. auto manufacturers to pitch the inclusion of the company’s EKG…

More Interviews and Features

How many billions are the last billion’s biometrics worth?

Novel techniques that can ‘trick’ object detection systems sounds familiar alarm

Round Table of African Data Protection Authorities to launch at ID4Africa

DHS struggles to deploy system to collect biometrics of departing travelers; proposed FY 2019 budget will help

Odyssey hackathon to explore place of biometrics in new digital ecosystems

Onfido raises $50 million and adds former Salesforce executive to board

Industry Insights: Guest Posts

Biometric Update Guest Posts features industry experts discussing their unique perspectives on products, services and the future of biometrics.

Is the UK ready to go cashless?

By David Orme

This is a guest post by David Orme, Senior Vice President at IDEX Biometrics. With the UK’s free-to-use ATMs rapidly…

More Industry Insights

How to leverage voice biometrics to boost the value of your solutions

5G is much more than a cellular service

What can we learn from the fingerprint biometric payment revolution in Asia?

Move over passwords – the future of security is biobehavioral

Eliminating mobile fraud with biometric authentication

The war between cybersecurity and cybercrime will be fought by artificial intelligence

ID4Africa 2019

Biometric Update has been the official journalist for the last three annual meetings of the ID4Africa ID-4-All Movement and is honored to be selected once again for this year’s meeting.

ID4Africa 2019 will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa hosted by the Department of Home Affairs June 18 – 20, 2019. The theme of the conference will be “Identity Ecosystems for Service Delivery.”