Indian government official claims $29B in savings from Aadhaar
A senior official claims that the government of India has saved billions of dollars through Aadhaar, while speeding up benefits…
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Pangea wins Jamaican multimodal biometric voter registry contract
Israel-based Pangea has won a contract to supply technology to the Electoral Commission of Jamaica to support the establishment and…
Researcher argues for more data to tap ECG biometrics’ potential
Heartbeat biometrics have come a long way over the past two decades, as explained to attendees of an event hosted…
Clearview CEO pitches developer focus as key to Consent facial recognition success
The new Clearview Consent identity verification product from Clearview AI brings the company’s facial recognition algorithm to an entirely new…
US facial recognition provider’s China ties spark concern amid infrastructure bidding
The ties between Las Vegas-based Remark Holdings and China are causing concern as the company bids to provide facial recognition…
Consumer applications of face biometrics draw privacy lawsuits
A trend has emerged in biometric data privacy lawsuits, with services involving photos of people taken for reasons other than…
National digital ID card market bounces back after slow 2020
The global market for ‘smart’ or digital ID cards issued by governments has rebounded from the early impacts of the…
Decentralized digital identity takes the stage at European KuppingerCole event
A generalized IT trend towards decentralization is finding expression in digital identity, speakers explained during the European Identity and Cloud…
Yoti facial age estimation accuracy improves, approval expands in Germany
Yoti has published a report on the current state of the art in facial age estimation, and its technology has…
Similar arguments to have biometric data privacy suits thrown out made by Amazon, Microsoft
Amazon did not use the biometric data of Illinois residents contained in the Diversity in Faces dataset, or benefit from…
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