Biometrics patents for enrollment, learning variations and personalization granted, filed
NextgenID has been granted a patent on the Identity portal hardware and accompanying software that makes up its Trusted Identity…
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ID R&D demystifies biometric PAD terminology with new paper to help educate customers, public
As presentation attack detection becomes more well known as an important element in any biometric system being used for fraud…
I3 promotes biometric professional services leader
Ideal Innovations Inc. (I3) has promoted Richard Syretz to the role of President, in addition to his COO role. Syretz…
Liveness detection may be coming to Apple, gesture recognition lives on for Google devices
Intellectual property protection claims by Apple for liveness detection with fingerprints or face biometrics have been published by the U.S….
Proposed AI Act amendments would add biometric data to ‘high-risk’ criteria
A tenth set of amendments to the EU AI Act have been proposed by the co-rapporteurs of the European Parliament,…
Major airport biometrics and government digital identity projects advance
Airport biometrics and digital travel credentials made headlines on two of the most-read articles on Biometric Update this week. Digi…
Password managers make opposite calls on biometrics
A new biometric passwordless authentication feature has been launched by Bitwarden to increase the speed and convenience with which users…
Privacy-preserving HR data sharing tools developed by TrustBuilder, launched by Indicio
Flemish Government entrepreneur support program VLAIO has awarded a project grant to IAM provider TrustBuilder to explore the secure and…
Claims about biometrics accuracy raise questions but get repeated
A LinkedIn post by a security awareness professional has raised eyebrows in biometrics circles, some of them indirectly, suggesting that…
Lessons from Aadhaar for digital ID architecture, financing shared by Nilekani and ID4Africa
Nandan Nilekani, founding chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, and prominent Aadhaar architect, expounded on the lessons that…
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