Metalenz strikes production deal to bring compact face biometrics to consumer devices
Metalenz has partnered with semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) to begin mass production of Polar ID, a compact biometric…
Year: 2025
School phone bans don’t do much, but age appropriate design does
Age checks for social media are on the minds of regulators globally, including in the UK. In a presentation from…
Passkeys from 1Password ready to join star supporters on red carpet
The world of biometric authentication is not standard stomping ground for celebrities, unless you count deepfakes. But some big names…
DHS has turned college football games into surveillance test beds
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has quietly turned college football into test beds for a federated surveillance stack built…
FPC AllKey Ultra offers potential for broader applications, use cases
Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has launched FPC AllKey Ultra, an expansion of the successful FPC AllKey line introduced in late…
Germany presents proof-of-concept for quantum-secure ID card
Germany has made its first moves to protect identity documents from quantum computer attacks, which threaten to break modern encryption…
Synaptics and Qualcomm partner on biometrics, touch interface for mobile devices, PCs
New strategic partners Synaptics and Qualcomm are combining their biometric and touch interface technologies to address the mobile device and…
Verifymy brings email age inference to k-ID partnership
Verifymy’s email-based age checks will now be available in global compliance platform k-ID’s Compliance Developer Kit. A release says the…
Ant unveils Alipay+ GlassPay smart glasses with iris biometric authentication
Ant International has launched Alipay+ GlassPay, its smart glasses-embedded payment solution that introduces iris biometric authentication as a security layer…
authID losses mount ahead of expected windfall from biometrics deals
authID’s latest financial statements are a story of a difficult present and promising future as the company transitions “from a…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection