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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.

 

Isorg receives FBI certification for FAP30 OPD biometric sensor

Isorg’s Bio1Print30 large-area fingerprint sensor has been certified to the FBI’s Personal Identity Validation (PIV) requirements for FAP30 biometric scanning….

 

Malta deep-sixes safe city facial recognition project after Huawei contract expires

Malta appears to have changed course on a plan to launch a CCTV network with facial recognition through a contract…

 

Forensic applications of next-gen biometrics boosted by acquisition, police planning

Next-generation biometrics for forensic analysis by law enforcement are big business, and expected to grow, as evidenced by Qiagen’s acquisition…

 

Fingerprint biometrics mature for government use, mobile phone sensors and newborns

Fingerprint biometrics and innovations in national identity systems are common themes in many of the week’s most-read stories on Biometric…

 

Delta combines airport face biometrics, in-flight personalization in integrated platform

Delta Airlines has branded its passenger experience technologies, including face biometrics for check-in processes, bag drops, security and boarding, as…

 

HooYu aligns brand with Mitek, signs up selfie biometrics partner

HooYu is now known as Mitek Systems, and has been contracted by Vetting.com to provide a digital identity screening solution…

 

Facial recognition and temperature scanning devices launched, deployed for access control

Nine Technology Korea Co. has developed a facial recognition and temperature measurement device for access control, according to a company…

 

ID document validation and selfie biometrics providers invited to join DHS tech demo

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate is hosting a challenge for remote ID validation technologies to…

 

Don’t confuse multispectral imaging with consumer-grade biometrics: HID Global white paper

With small, low-cost fingerprint sensors approaching ubiquity through consumer devices such as mobile phones and laptops, HID Global has published…

 

Socure slashes workforce

Socure has reduced its staff by 104 people, cutting nearly 19 percent from its peak workforce in response to softer…

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