Veridas has expanded the capabilities of its age verification software with age validation solely through selfie biometrics, avoiding ID scanning…
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Africa’s data protection action pushing digital ID forward
Major gains in digital identity policy and the related regulation of data privacy in many African countries provide practical lessons…
Cutting out clustered data points to reduce facial recognition bias explained in AFRL talk
Despite the presence of many “heavy hitters” in the public discourse about bias in facial recognition, misunderstanding about the nature…
KYC providers introduce new identity verification capabilities
FaceOnLive is introducing its SDK to the market for face matching, liveness detection and document recognition to provide identity verification…
Canada introduces new airport traveller verification program
Canada’s aviation security authority is launching a new program to reduce how long it takes passengers to pass through airport…
ID R&D breaks down new biometric spoof evaluation metric RIAPAR
The 2023 revision of the ISO/IEC 30107 standard for presentation attack detection gives weight to a new metric for evaluating…
Yoti, Mitek and Synectics launch pilot to fight digital ID fraud with shared signals
A pilot project to show the feasibility of real-time fraud intelligence sharing described as ‘first-of-its-kind’ by Synectics Solutions has been…
Student data grab grows as facial recognition planned for Hong Kong schools
Children attending school in Hong Kong will be monitored in classes and around educational facilities with security cameras and a…
MOSIP building “an ecosystem” of biometrics labs, partnering with more universities
MOSIP is focusing on expanding its engagement with the biometrics ecosystem, as well as different use cases for the foundational…
Maturing biometrics models meet newer markets, applications
Device biometrics are being used to secure more applications and interactions in several of the most-read articles of the week…
