ICE’s facial recognition app is new, but the NEC tech behind it is well known
The revelation that the Mobile Fortify app used by ICE to identify suspected immigration procedure violators, and increasingly protestors, uses…
Articles By Chris Burt
Chris Burt is managing editor and industry analyst at Biometric Update. He has also written nonfiction about information technology, dramatic arts, sports culture, and fantasy basketball, as well as fiction about a doomed astronaut. He lives in Toronto. You can follow him on Twitter @AFakeChrisBurt.
From Alibaba to Zoloz, liveness confirmation crucial for biometrics providers
Liveness detection providers that have just launched their technology and those that have not yet undergone conformance tests to prove…
Biometrics’ growing role in daily life necessitates liveness detection upgrades
Biometrics policy collides with liveness detection and facial recognition in the weeks top headlines on Biometric Update, as digital services…
GOV.UK One Login regains DIATF certification by Kantara but role questions linger
GOV.UK One Login has regained certification to the UK’s Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF), after going through an…
RIVR results show targeted selfie biometric spoof attacks divide the field
Test results from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) suggest significant differences in the performance…
Shufti claims highest population coverage for eIDV at nearly 4.3B
An expansion of Shufti’s digital identity verification capability now makes it capable of verifying 4.29 billion identities from 60-plus countries,…
Idex CEO-affiliated company’s stake rises to above 10%
Altea AS now holds 10.77 percent ownership in Idex Biometrics, after the completion of both tranches in a private placement…
Let’s be clearer on what digital have-nots don’t have: Vouchsafe
Access to technology is more commonly discussed than digital literacy when considering how inclusive technology is, Chloe Coleman of Vouchsafe…
Yoti’s passive biometric liveness detection first to pass iBeta Level 3 PAD test
Yoti is the first biometrics company to successfully pass a Level 3 presentation attack detection (PAD) compliance assessment from iBeta…
Corporate digital identity is the answer to enterprise onboarding complexity
Onboarding users to corporate systems involves complexity beyond consumer applications, particularly for multinationals. Henry Balani of Encompass Group argues in…
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