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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.

 

Peru issues 7M digital ID cards with id3 biometrics, NXP chips

Fingerprint biometric algorithms from id3 Technologies are being used in Peru’s new digital identity cards, after being selected by NXP…

 

BixeLab shows off biometrics testing capabilities, unveils training courses in live launch

BixeLab opened its biometrics test laboratory in Australia at a time when COVID-19 restrictions generally prevented people from visiting or…

 

Fujitsu applies human behavior recognition model to privacy-preserving fall detection

Fujitsu has developed a technology for accurately estimating the posture of the human body that the company says could help…

 

UK Home Office finds kiosks close, mobile getting there for biometrics self-enrollment

The UK Home Office says that biometric self-enrollment of face and fingerprint biometrics works better at this point on kiosks…

 

Microsoft biometric data privacy lawsuit from former Uber drivers returned to state court

Some of the claims in a biometric data privacy lawsuit against Microsoft are being remanded to state court, after the…

 

New entrants join biometrics market as established players branch out

New biometrics projects and innovations like Akiyama Group’s Natosafe baby biometrics system, Tata’s Indian passports and new access control market…

 

Bias testing introduced for biometric liveness detection in ID R&D, BixeLab collaboration

A new test protocol to evaluate the demographic differentials, or bias, in biometric liveness detection systems has been developed by…

 

Synthetic data getting serious for biometrics training

Synthetic data created by artificial intelligence systems, for AI systems is a growing market, as general adversarial networks (GANs) are…

 

Sumsub stats show more biometric ID verification needed as crypto regulations increase

Cryptocurrencies could soon be subject to strict anti-money laundering checks in the European Union, with a provisional agreement between the…

 

US government committee gather evidence on biometric privacy-enhancing technologies

Biometric privacy-enhancing technologies (BPET) could play a major role in protecting the sensitive information of Americans, experts told a House…

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